Questions tagged [layout]
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Nodes spaced vertically at exactly 1 \baselineskip apart
I'm following the idea behind this post
Itemize list inside a tikzpicture node
I would like to place the nodes at exactly 1 \baselineskip of each other such that even when changing font family or ...
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settypeblocksize does not change the textwidth
I'm new on using the memoir documentclass and I've been trying to implement a page layout with a large side margin, so I can have margin notes and margin figures, but I've been trying to create an ...
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Set a different page layout for a single page in Memoir
I've set a page layout for my entire document with a space for margin notes with the following memoir commands:
\setstocksize{11in}{8.5in}
\settrims{0pt}{0pt}
\settypeblocksize{7.5in}{4.3in}{*}
\...
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page by page comparison
As for my thesis, I need to do a side by side comparison of two calculations.
You can imagine the layout as the following:
On the left page (or first page), I want to discuss the first calculation. On ...
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How to achieve a few different page layouts for a photobook?
I'm considering designing a photobook in LaTeX but am concerned that I will run into unanticipated problems, so wanted to give some details and see how these might be achievable. My idea for this book:...
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Book in two languages (left pages in one language and right pages in a second language) [duplicate]
I have a book \documentclass[11pt]{book} and I would like to write it in two languages (english and german).
My idea would be to repeat each page of the book in both languages, in such a way that all ...
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Adjustwidth in two-column layout?
Is it possible to change the outer margin of a two-column layout mid-document? You see that in the following, it's always the left margin that's increased. However, I'd like to inrease the left margin ...
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Let float run into outer margin
I think there have been some questions regarding this, but I haven't found a solution so far. The figures in my (twocolumn) document are too small. Therefore, I thought about letting them run into the ...
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Different margins for every odd page
I would like to have every second page of my rather large document have different margins, top and bottom. Left and right are fine, I have to split up an A4 script into two landscape A5 pages each, ...
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Have an Issue with my list of figures appearance
I am working on a big document, therefore I have a lot of figures. The list of figures was perfect until I exceeded 10 figures in one of the chapters. then It started looking like this.
Is there a ...
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Aligning annotations using hfill
Please excuse my beginner question, I am pretty inexperienced with LaTeX.
My question is quite similar to this.
I have lines of maths followed by annotations commenting on the maths on the same line. ...
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trying to align wrap figure with [t]
So I'm trying my best to align my subsections this way:
\subsubsection{Cylindrical Robot Arm:}
\begin{wrapfigure}{r}{0.3\textwidth}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=3cm]{II.Theoretical Concept and ...
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Book Layout with Fancy Footing Including Display of Text in Front of Offset Graphical Object
I'm currently trying to massage the layout of my Master Thesis and I'm struggling with the arrangement of some specific graphical elements.
The desired layout includes a footer with a graphical box (...
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Creating a layout for a Formulary in latex
I'm a beginner in LaTeX and I'm creating a formulary where for each formula or formulas there is a picture with the geometrical interpretation.
I have managed to create the graphical element that I ...
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How can I re-create this table in LaTeX?
I would like to re-create the table below in LaTeX.
It's an A4 paper in landscape orientation.
The way I did it in LibreOffice Writer was using nested tables that have their borders hidden. In the ...
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Two column list inside tcolorbox
I am bit struggle for list with two column layout inside box using tcolorbox. I required output as like image attached. Please suggest how to fix this, my TeX coding is below:
MWE:
\documentclass{book}...
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How to input different page layouts in same document?
I'm currently trying to adapt a template I found for a ''cook book'' and I wanted to include different page layouts to keep the document a little bit varied. I know Latex isn't the best tool for such ...
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Texmaker printing wrong symbols
I use a Macbook with the latest version of Texmaker on it. Everytime I use the libertine math font the input "-" is interpreted as "*". It only occurs when I use the Libertine font ...
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Table with an extra column (comments) without horizontal line-layout
I would like to comment only some rows of a table.
Is there a way to realize a table with an extra column for comments without overshooting of horizontal lines?
Working example:
\documentclass{article}...
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Landscape - Why does it only effect content without effecting the paper? [duplicate]
I used the following to produce landscape layout. But it didn't produce the expected output. Then I found this in a texblog
You can also just change the page content to landscape, but not the actual ...
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Small table covers one whole page
I'm making some final corrections for my Elsevier submission. I have a problem with some tables covering a whole page, although they are small, and I can't manage to fix it. Here is the code.
\...
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Display long table
Is there a way to display this wide table on an A4 page without using landscape?
\documentclass[12pt,addpoints]{exam}
\usepackage[a4paper,left=1.5cm, right=1.5cm, top=3.5cm,bottom=3cm]{geometry}
\...
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Special text box: align prefix with top and suffix with bottom
I want to create a box of text in the middle of my paragraph with the behavior illustrated below. The text before the box should be aligned with the top of the box and text after the box with the ...
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How to define a command in latex for capitalizing following text?
In latex there are commands that change the appearance of their argument, e.g. \textit{foo}.
Other commands change the appearance of the following text, without requiring an argument, e.g. \itshape ...
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Format verses with incrementing counters
How can I format verses with a counter assigned to them?
I am working on a book that requires formatting verses (in Devanagari and Roman transliteration) in a specific way. Please see the image below ...
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How to get the location information of the layout generated by showframe
For example
\documentclass{article}% use option titlepage to get the title on a page of its own.
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{showframe}
\renewcommand*\ShowFrameColor{\color{blue}}
\title{The ...
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Part title page layout in a tufte document class
Following layout problems with my document coming from a Tufte-book documentclass, I took into account the new code presented in the following link, which presents the old and the new code:
layout ...
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Reset layout position of \thebibliography
Background
I have changed the position where the chapter title and subtitle are presented, namely in the center bottom of a new chapter. Unfortunately, it seems that the \thebibliography follows this ...
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Image larger then text with twoside book class
The trick indicated here for including an image bigger than \textwidth (with \makebox) works with document class article or with oneside book but not with twoside book, even if I set nomarginpar and \...
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TikZ: Is there concept of layouts in tikz (which I could use in composite pic's)?
In Qt there is concept of layouts (for example, vertical layout arranges all objects vertically and possibly aligns them, horizontal - arranges horizontally, etc...).
I am trying to solve a problem ...
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Need help for exam header layout (LaTeX newbie)
I am a mathematics teacher in a Swiss secondary school.
Until today I used to write my tests on LibreOffice using the TexMath extension to create the mathematical parts in LaTeX.
I would like to write ...
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How to output the name of a command at the same time when calling a command
I know that using everypar can print some information every time everypar command is called. I want to know whether it is possible to print the name of the command at the same time when the command is ...
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Change font for sections and subsections in toc and add dot line for chapters
I would like to alter my table of contents.
The font of sections and subsections should be the same as the chapters (which is lmss).
Chapters should have dotted lines too
How do I remove the space ...
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Continued minipage geometry
I need to motivate certain definition, and to do that I used minipage environment for the motivation part. However when the length of the motivation is more the section doesn't continue to next page ...
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How to wrap text around a box without using any packages?
This question has been edited since the original problems due to errors in my code were fixed.
I tried to use wrapfig to wrap text around a box at the right margin, but the package behaves ...
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Create title page layout
I would like to use latex. However, I would like to use a slightly different layout.
The layout contains two separate areas, which are coloured differently. They are separated by a thick white bar and ...
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Modifying the Cornell Note Template
I'm trying to modify the Cornell Notes template to my specific needs.
Is there a way that the red line on the background breaks before and after a section and subsection title?
I looked through the ...
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2 tables below one another and image in side
I am trying to create an image and 2 tables one below the other next to it using the below code with floatrow package
\begin{figure}
\begin{floatrow}
\ffigbox{%
\rule{3cm}{3cm}%
}{%
\caption{A ...
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How can add the next objects to format the page of the document?
I see some layout in a book that I liked, and I'm trying to make something that looks like it, but I'm unaware of how it should be done.
Layout intended (these are two pages separated)
First page
2....
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How to Specify pgfpages 2 on 1 Output for a Range of Pages Only
Consider the following code:
\documentclass[openany]{book}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{imakeidx}
\makeindex
\usepackage{idxlayout}
\usepackage{pgfpages}
\pgfpagesuselayout{2 on 1}
\begin{document}...
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Placing each column of a multicolumn layout on a separate page?
Let's say I have a multicolumn document, and what I'd like to do is produce an alternate version of the same document which basically puts each column (with the same linebreaks and columnbreaks) on ...
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Reliable way to know a (lower bound?) remaining space on the page
In order to solve this question:
Wrap automatically into figure if not enough space to place it Here
I need to learn the remaining space on the current page.
I tried this to put a rule of exactly the ...
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Fixed top margin on normal text
Want to create book with two types of pages.
page contains
a) chapter name
b) normal text paragraphs
page contains only normal text paragraphs
The question is how to do it when I want to have ...
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Column flow from one page to another?
I'm working on a project that has several columns,
I'd like to have the text from the columns flow from one page to the next, you know, Word-style.
Is this possible? I'd love to be able to do it ...
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How to set an inline tcbox height to a fixed height (1em)
I'm searching for a way to avoid the following layout (image below) where the underscore and the lower case letters get tightened inside the tcbox : ideally, I'd like the tcbox to keep a height that ...
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Bounds on inter-word spacing
Is there any way to put both lower and upper bounds on inter-word spacing for a certain region of text within a document? That is, allow LaTeX to adjust within a certain range, say 0.2em to 0.5em. ...
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Aligning text and chapter/section titles, not with the numbers
I am writing a user manual (pdfLatex and MikTeX) for my company and would like to match a layout I've found on another manual :
Chapter and sections number are on the left
Chapter (section) titles ...
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Image aligned to left, right or centered
I have large squared figures. I want to align them to left or right edge of the page. In other words they should occupy inner/outer (or "centered" both margins)margin and also on top margin.
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How do I change the size of my footnotes and change my line spacing for my reference section?
Our school's manual of style mandates the following format for term papers. I am not able to understand how would to do the following
Endnotes/Footnotes: Single-line spacing; Times New Roman Font 10
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How to put two items perfectly aligned LaTeX itemize
I have a large Tex file, simplified as below:
\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article}
\usepackage{latexsym}
\usepackage[empty]{fullpage}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}...
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