Questions tagged [layout]
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Flushedleft title with maketitle aligned at right margin of marginparwidth
after fixing my footnote-problem I work on the title layout.
The journal needs an title with flushed-left content, but the "titlebox" itself should align at the right margin of the ...
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How to apply hrule at bottom of each page's text body
I am working on a twosided article layout where the footnotes are enclosed by two \textwidth lines above and below and on pages without a footnote a single h-line is spanning across \textwidth at the ...
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How do I make an image span across the page?
I'm working on a cover page in latex. My current layout and latex code for the image can be seen below. My idea is to make the image span across the entire width of the page. How can I do this? Thanks ...
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Layouts that give more horizontal space for equations
This is a typography question as well as a LaTeX question.
I'm writing a document where some of the equations are very wide, and I'm looking for ways to lay out the document that will help me fit as ...
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Table too wide in iopart class
I'm preparing my first manuscript for journal submission with the iopart document class. Since it's for a publication, there are typesetting constraints imposed on me (that I'm not always aware of). I'...
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Add semitransparent box around the Chapter title wich is in front of a picture
Seeing as I’m only started using LaTeX five days ago, there is a problem I would like to request the community's help as I can't figure out a way to get the layout I'm looking for.
I managed to add a ...
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Creative page numbering without using fancyhdr
I need help with the page numbering of my report.
I am willing to change my page numbering and make it look like this.
with the placement of the page numbering to change with the chapter (the higher ...
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Create 3 different page layouts to use it in different pages of a book
I want to write a textbook, and I want to create 3 different page layouts and use them in different areas of the book. For example:
How can I do this? I am a complete beginner in terms of setting up ...
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Package `flowfram` - How do I query the width of the current frame?
I'm using a tabular within a frame, something along the lines of:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{flowfram}
\usepackage[showframe]{geometry}
\newflowframe{0.5\textwidth}{\textheight}{0pt}{0pt}
\...
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KOMA scrlttr2 margin notes
some newbie here that started to learn LaTeX.
I am currently exploring KOMA scrlttr2. For this I tried recreating the following letter but got some problems while doing so:
I cannot work out how to ...
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Best way to automize a layout
I am new to classes and I would like to make a class that automatizes the complete layout of the document. This includes :
setting a given pdf file as background,
there is a different background in ...
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parskip glue doesn't stretch
I was thinking that \setlength\parskip{2ex plus 5ex} was supposed to set the default paragraph spacing to 2ex and to a maximum value of 7ex in cases where it helps fill the vertical space of the page.
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Apply layout arguments set by \geometry (geometry) to \includepdf[ (pdfpages)
I am a newcomer to LaTeX and have already produced a few documents with satisfactory quality for me. Now I have decided to write my thesis in LaTeX. For this purpose, I use a template from Overleaf (...
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How to make multiple independent columns and then fill them horizontally?
I am implementing an idea for rendering authors. As far as I could see no other package could do it for me, but I am happy to be corrected. The idea is to place authors in several independent columns, ...
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Uneven line spacing across elements of the same page (multicol)
This code
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\setlength\baselineskip{4ex plus 2ex minus 2ex} % Exagerated on purpose
\section{Title}
\begin{...
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Columns odd vertical alignment in multicol
This code
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[parfill]{parskip}
\usepackage{multicol}
\widowpenalties 2 9999 9999
\begin{document}
\setlength\baselineskip{4ex plus 2ex minus 2ex}
\begin{...
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Larger left margin on one page. Larger right margin on the other page
How can I set the margin in such a way that one page has a larger margin on the left side and the other one a larger margin on the right side?
Update: I'm using the article document class.
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Drawing a bleeding margin on the exterior side of each page
I am writing a double-paged document.
I would like to add a bleeding colored area on the exterior of each page after some page.
I know how to add the bleeding area on the left of the pages or on the ...
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Grid vs Tables to create a catalog like layout
I am trying to figuring out how to setup in ConTeXt a fluid grid to have all the elements of a catalog in a clear and recognizable pattern.
The more I read about grid and the more I am convinced that ...
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Package PAGELAYOUT, 'cannot access shell'
While running the package-supplied *.tex samples for pagelayout.cls, I am getting error messages. That alone is odd, because I would expect those examples to be rock-solid. The errors claim that the ...
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How to place vertical lines in the margin
I want to put a timeline in the margin so the reader can quickly get a sense of the theme of every paragraph. I am accomplishing this with the marpar command. However, I also want to put a vertical ...
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Fit large emailaddresses [closed]
I have authors with long email addresses. See the code below:
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage[]{ACL2023}
\usepackage{times}
\usepackage{latexsym}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[...
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How to make the nup layout of includepdf RTL? (pdfpages)
I am trying to print out a cheatsheet of sorts with the content of multiple recitations.
pdfpages should be able to do exactly what I need, with the 'nup' setting of the \includepdf tag.
However, I'm ...
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using typearea and octavo to create Golden-Ratio-compliant books at lulu.com
I have a number of books with various page counts that I want to have printed and bound by lulu.com, and I'd like to make them as Golden-Ratio-compliant as I can. In order to do this, I'm using the ...
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Placeing floats mid-paragraph, but without breaking sentences [duplicate]
I actually am content with latex' float placing mechanism. The only problem I stumbled upon was that when trying to place floats inside a paragraph, they more often than not disrupt sentences. I dont ...
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Grid based layout for a title page
I'm trying to design a title page for an interview. I'd like to feature on the page the title, the interviewee, an introduction text… all on a column based layout.
I tried several things: ...
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ConTeXt: Putting a float in the margin upsets page layout
My MWE produces the output shown below. On page 2, the body text ignores the layout for the page, and flows below the bottom of the frame, down to the footer. I expected the text to stop at the bottom ...
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Layout problem of 2 successive largefigures
To work around the problem of inserting two figures inside a single one, each taking up the whole page, I chose to insert two successive figures by assigning a caption and a label only to one between ...
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Why does not this bottom margin change?
I am using mnras.cls file as a latex template and I am trying to widen the bottom margin area on the title page. When I tried to set it with the information given in tex.stackexchange.com/questions/...
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Papersize: page as long as document
Is it possible to have a document in which the paper size expands as long as the document goes and only breaks to the next page on \newpage or similar command?
Example of usage
A simple example of ...
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Typesetting: Lining up footnote marker with cap or ascender line of the text (FN too high)
How can I line up the footnote marks with the cap or ascender line (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseline_(typography)) of a text? Usually LaTex would use superscripts, which appear to be placed ...
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Create a three parts page layout
I want to write a latex document that consists of only 1 A4 page, which is based on the article document class, and has the following layout:
Inside each "box", I need to be able to insert ...
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ConTeXt: How do I do calculations with /nextpage?
This works great \definelayout[\nextpage][new] to set the layout for the next page.
How can I set the layout for the \nextpage+2 ? This didn't work \definelayout[\nextpage+2][new]
I tried a \numexpr ...
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Page layout in XeTeX
I want to create a presentation using XeTeX but I am having trouble with the page layout. The expected result show be a pdf with a 4:3 aspect ratio, centered content and margin of 1/8th of the total ...
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breakable tcolorbox is eating my minipage
I have a memoir document full of minipages and breakable tcoloboxes and I don't understand the interaction between the two. Sometimes my minipage contents gets pushed far beyond the bottom of the ...
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Is there a way to view the page layout in the output of a document?
I'm wrestling with geometry right now, trying to increase the width of the body, without success. It would be very useful to be able to see the page layout (lines/boxes indicating edges of the body, ...
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Including mathtools changes page layout with XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX
I have a package s5paper (below) not written by me that sets up a Swedish paper format S5 with a page layout with margins and such. But when I build with XeLaTeX or LuaLaTex the page layout changes ...
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How can I make a din A0 Poster for my formula collection
I was wondering how to make a din A0 poster in LaTeX for my formula-collection so that I can make myself a overview of some important formulas for analysis or linear algebra for example. I had an idea ...
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Two Frame Layout
I want to achieve a document layout which consists of two frames.
The larger frame should extends different content types (sections, tables, figures etc.), the smaller frame only of numbers or normal ...
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Calculate numbers
I want to calculate some numbers, basically for some layout stuff. However, I am stuck a this point because it seems you can not write something like this in latex:
\newcommand{\MyNewWidthValueA}{{0....
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Preparing two side page layout
My university provided me with a LaTeX template to prepare my thesis but they didn't update the class file although they have changed the rules. In the image, you will see the current rules. Also, the ...
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How to split a page into four areas in tex
I would like to know how I can divide a page into four boxes with the same length and width. I attached a screenshot below. I am trying to make a page with four boxes and enter text in each box. The ...
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Excluding one of the chapter from starting with an odd numbered page in thesis
My university provided me with a LaTeX template for my thesis. In the class file of it, there is a part of the code that makes all the chapters start from an odd-numbered page. However, I need to ...
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Cannot control geometry settings to give different margins for front cover and inside a book
%------------------------------------------------------------------------------- %
\documentclass[a4,english,11pt]{book}
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Should you \newpage when a section has the chance to fill an entire page?
Concretely in the case that I attached here (it's a real case),
the chapter ends on page 39. Page 38 starts a new subsection that overflows into page 39 but would have also fit into page 39 as a whole....
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Framed boxes with borders that take up no space (like the effect of `outline` CSS property)
I would like to make some simple schemas using stacked or overlapping framed boxes with content. I could almost use a table instead, but I do not see how to do some of the "overlaps" in a ...
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create graphic for theorem: hypotheis grouped implies in same line
i was writing my first document in latex, trying to emulate the notes i usually took in class.
When the theorem had many short hypothesis and thesis i used to write like the picture below to ...
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Need help to define a layout for phrase book
I am learning another language (French) and decided to create my own phrase book.
My idea is to collect phrases from movies and TV show and continuously add them to my phrase best as I go along.
I am ...
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How can I prevent line breaks between words without exceeding the page margins?
I'm currently writing a legal paper in LaTeX that requires me to cite a lot of law in my text, for example something like
Das in § 37 Abs. 2 BetrVG normierte Lohnausfallprinzip wirkt ...
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Question about adapting the Elegant Book template for page layout with crop marks
I am tryin to adapt the Elegant Book template for my book. I have made some changes, but I am having problems adapting the template for the following:
The page layout as required by the publisher, ...
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