Questions tagged [horizontal-alignment]
{horizontal-alignment} is about aligning document elements horizontally, e.g. typesetting paragraphs using \centering or \raggedright or adjusting the horizontal position of several equation or table components. If your question is generally about (horizontal) white space, use {spacing} instead.
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Creating aligned tabs similar to ms word and libreoffice
One feature present in Microsoft Word is the tab settings (right click->paragraph->tabs). This allows tab stops to be created, where you press the tab key and it will move the cursor to the ...
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Can cells in a matrix be merged? (Something like colspan in HTML.)
I am trying to create readable LaTeX formulas on a Wikimedia page.
matrix and & are generally helpful to align symbols.
But in the following example I would like to align the plus signs in the ...
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How to align rows within cell in Latex?
I am a kind of new user in Latex and there is a problem I am trying to fix. Here is my latex code for that;
\begin{tabular}{p{3cm} p{8cm} p{6cm}}
{\rmfamily\scshape \textnormal{CONTACT \newline ...
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Left-aligned and centered text on same line (not equations) when text is too long and overprints elements
In a previous post, I was given an answer which mostly works very well.
\NewDocumentCommand{\datefeast}{mm}{%
\par
\noindent
\makebox[0pt][l]{#1.}%
\makebox[\textwidth]{\Large #2.}%
}
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Align figure against outside (or inside) edge [duplicate]
I am preparing a twoside document with wide margins, where I am placing both margin notes and figure captions (using the sidenotes package). I would like my figures to be aligned so they are directly ...
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How can I align this figure with the page numbering?
Hello I'm trying to align the figure with the page numbering. When I use \begin{center} I don't have problem usually. I have tried other things like begin{figure} or \begin{scope} but nothing.
\...
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Displaying a text in the center of the page
In the following example, I could display the text in the center of the line:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\centerline{Example.}
\end{document}
And I would like to display it in the ...
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Even horizontal spacing in enumitem inline lists
I would like to have an equally (horizontally-)spaced inline list, like
(1) 0.4 (some spaces) (2) 12.372 (some spaces),
so that each [item and its spaces] will take account of the same ...
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Centering tikz graphic in OpTeX
I make this graphic with tikz in OpTeX
\fontfam[Fira]
\margins/1 a4 (3.5,2.5,3,3)cm
\typosize[12/18]
\load[tikz]
{
%\centerline{
%\begin{tikzpicture}[domain=0:4]
\tikzpicture[domain=-1.045:5.25]
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add images in \longtable and remove justification
I'm a beginner in LaTex but i've used longtable before. Now i'm trying to add images inside the table but i can't make them fit the cells. I don't want to make them smaller, i'd like to make the rows ...
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How may source text, after epigraph text, be left justified?
The question is more precisely articulated in the following MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{epigraph}
\setlength{\epigraphrule}{0pt}
\begin{document}
\setlength{\epigraphwidth}{0.69\...
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How to shift/center a tikz grid?
I have this code which draws a 15x10 grid with 10mm cells:
\documentclass[dvipsnames,parskip,a4paper]{scrartcl}
\usepackage[margin=1.5cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\begin{...
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How to change vertical spacing between two minipages? [duplicate]
As you can see, in the image I included the pictures on the right are too far apart, resulting in the page they're supposed to be in to be skipped. The method I use is to wrap the different minipages ...
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\centering does not work for a particular table but forcing individual cell >{\centering\arraybackslash}p{5cm} does it
I have this code:
\documentclass[a4paper,man,floatsintext,12pt,donotrepeattitle]{apa7}
\usepackage[spanish]{babel} %Paquete de diccionario en español
\usepackage{graphicx} %Paquete Habilita pegado de ...
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'How to use LaTeX for sequence alignement' Follow-up question
I found this great solution from 'David Carlisle' regarding the question:
'How to use LaTeX for sequence alignment'
Unfortunately I am new to this forum (and latex) and cannot comment directly to ask ...
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How can I center multiple alignment points in an equation inside an align environment?
Courtesy link: How can I center an equation inside an align environment?
A single equation in align is centered, so with gather
you get both equations centered; otherwise, nest align inside gather.
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Line-break within cell, midrule length and text alignment with \cite in cell
I have some troubles with a table with citations in the cells.
I want the text line-break to be earlier.
The text is not aligned in the centre (horizontal).
The text is not aligned in the centre (...
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Centering first line in Tikz node
You can place multiline text in a tikz node by setting align as follows:
\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\node[align = left] [draw] {
Title\\
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Justify switch after centering switch
What is the switch to return to fully justified text after a \centering or \raggedright switch? The expected justify or justifying are not it. Looking for the default latex solution with no extra ...
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Alignment of the currency symbol in a tabular environment
I'm typesetting a table of monetary sums in LaTeX. So far, I have the following code:
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{array}
\newcolumntype{k}{>{\$\hfill\,}r} % currency columns
\begin{document}...
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microtype and \RaggedRight creating friction and hard to deal with overfulls
I previously asked why exactly \RaggedRight was causing overfull and underfull issues, and this was answered almost unanimously with a "microtype is usually the first option`". I want to ...
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\Centering causes underfull boxes when using titlesec
When I use ragged2e with \Centering, this causes underfull errors when used in titlesec.
As far as I know, I broke no functionality using the titlesec package.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{...
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How can I make a table take all space inside a tcoorbox so the it leaves no margins?
I'm trying to use this code to make a box with two differently coloured sections inside:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tcolorbox}
\usepackage[table]{xcolor}
\begin{document}
\begin{...
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Center longtable in landscape environment horizontally when viewed in portrait mode
I am unable to center a longtable inside a landscape environment (package pdflscape) horizontally when viewed in portrait mode and when the table spans more than one page.
Note, I have a two-sided ...
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Image vertical alignement with tabularx
I have two (02) columns in a table, with width as linewidth so I used tabularx.
First column has mixed text (Arabic and French), aligned to the left.
Second column has an image.
I would like to have ...
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How can I center my LaTeX text block in double sides printing?
I need to print double sided a5 from a translation of a book in LaTeX. Just bought an HP LAserjet 209 only to find out it does not do a5 D-S. So I need to print a5 block on a4 paper and therefore need ...
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How to horizontally align horizontal boxes in a vertical box?
In vertical mode, horizontal boxes are stacked one on top of the other and aligned to the left. How can I get the boxes to align to the right instead?
\vbox{
\hbox{short line}
\hbox{looooooonger ...
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Fixed column width and left alignment works partially [duplicate]
For some reason, I am not able to set left alignment in the third column of a table (I can make it only in the first and second columns}. Does anybody know waht is hapenning? Below you find a MWE.
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Align enumerate label with left margin
This should be a simple one, hopefully.
I like to align the label of the items in my enumerate environment with the left margin. I can do this with the option [labelsep = *] from the enumitem package. ...
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Re-center text after string substitution
What I want to do
I want to display the date (year / month) on the cover of my document in Japanese.
I have used the datetime2 package in other places in my document to print the date in English ...
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Avoid underset text overlaping
As you can see, underset on right hand becomes overlaped. How can I avoid this? This is my MWE
\documentclass[14pt]{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{mathtools}
\newcommand{\lunderset}[2]{\...
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In a multiline equation, how to align from the right in a second-level split?
I have a long equation, where I want to divide the expression into 4 parts, 2 of which are & aligned, and the other two are child to the former, and should be aligned from the right.
I am nesting ...
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How to left align chemical equations with tags?
I have a set of chemical reactions I am trying to write using mhchem. I need to left-align the equations and right-align the tags. Here's what I have done so far:
\begin{align}
\ce{AB -> A + B} \...
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Latex Beamer - Add left padding to table of contents
I have changed the style of my table of contents in a beamer template, but now I want to add an horizontal padding to the left of this frame. How can I do it while keeping my custom configuration?
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How to Create a Fully Centered and Adjustable Multiline Table in LaTeX?
I am unfortunately quite a LaTeX noob and am having difficulties putting together a table. My goal is to center the content of each cell both vertically and horizontally. The table is aligned ...
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Horizontally Align Lists in Proofs
Is there any way to make the 1. and bullet point align with the rest in the proof environment?
\documentclass[letterpaper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage{amsmath, amsfonts, amssymb, amsthm}
\begin{document}...
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Non-standard alignment of multiline equation
In the old days when people used typewriters instead of LaTeX it was fairly easy to achieve the following non-standard multiline split
Now that we have environments like align and alignat it is not ...
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Left-aligned and centered text on same line (not equations)
In the style which I'm sort of copying, dates are printed against the left margin and the entry's heading (which doesn't need to conform to LaTeX sectioning commands) is centered.
I have borrowed code ...
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Aligning conditions in pairs of cases [duplicate]
Is there any way to align the conditions in more than one cases environment? (the "u=0"/"u>0" below)
$$\begin{aligned}
x_1 &= \begin{cases}Z & u = 0 \\
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How can I fully justify spaces inside enumitem description labels?
I will start with a picture that says more than a thousand words:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\begin{document}
What I currently see is this:
\begin{...
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Center first page title in exactly the middle of the page
I have the following code to create the front cover of a book:
\documentclass[11pt,twoside,onecolumn]{memoir}
\pagenumbering{gobble} % Remove page number
\title{\fontsize{34pt}{34pt}\selectfont{ This ...
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How do I fit a paragraph on the right hand side of an item?
How do I get text in this arrangement? The lines are the margins of the page. "x = y + 1" is a line of math in a box, as wide as the text inside. The paragraph extends from the right side of ...
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Handling with tabularx and tikzpicture
The goal is
Generate a centerd-aligned single cell tabularx large as document width
Insert a tikzipicture
MWE:
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{mathtools}
\usepackage{...
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Aligning equal signs and brackets at the same time
I wish to have the following
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This is the code to generate the image above.
\begin{align*}
\vec{a}\dvec{B} = \vec{a}(\vec{b}\wedge\vec{c}) \\
\vec{a}(\vec{b}\wedge\vec{c}) = (a_x\hx + a_y\hy ...
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Why does centering work in AMS article but not plain article?
I have a command for images. It also centres them. I mostly just used it in amsart but today I tried using it in article and the centering that previously worked in the AMS article no longer works. ...
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How can I write this on latex? [closed]
How can I write:
On latex, I used \[ \] math command for the __ __ and \phantom for the spaces:
but i cant seem to get the "set of choices" directly under it in the desired fashion:
How ...
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Left-Align Section Title After Using Wraptable
I created a table that is placed next to some text:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[font=small,labelfont=bf]{caption}
\usepackage{geometry}
\usepackage[graphicx]{realboxes}
\usepackage{siunitx}
\...
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Center the word "Appendix" and make it bigger
Is there some way to make the word "Appendix" bigger, so that it covers the page in the center, instead of a small "Appendix" in the upper left corner?
I use this code:
\...
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Quote Equation number with horizontal alignment
I have using quote with displayed numbered equation. But the eq number (1) not moved from right to left. Can anyone advise me how to fix.
Source TeX code is:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{...
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