Questions tagged [layout]
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How to change a page layout in a Overleaf template?
I am using a template from Overleaf enter link description here
However, I have no idea where to change the page layout.
I want to write more in my Abstract page, while other page maintained the same ...
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Table text out of page
I want to create a table on overleaf Latex but the table keeps exceeding the page bounds.
My table code is this:
\begin{table}[htbp]
\caption{Advantages and disadvantages of \acrshort{Wi-Fi}}
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How can I automatically draw frames around all elements on a page?
Fine-tuning the layout and spacing of elements in a document is often a guessing game. It would be great if LaTeX could display the spatial extensions of all elements (float, subfigure, minipage, ...
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How to tell LaTeX to automatically split text and its equation (and multi-equations) across pages?
Managing the vertical spacements, LaTeX frequently displaces an equation and the text line above it to the next page. This behavior may leave a large blank space on the previous page (depending on ...
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\vbox badness helvetica 12pt and 1.5 spacing
My university asks for 1.5 spacings, and at least 2cm left and right. I'd like to use arial and a header as stated below.
Now, I get \vbox badness and I read this means pages are badly defined.
But ...
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How to put a logo on the left corner and text on the right corner?
I'm a beginner and I try since yesterday to put a logo on the left corner and text on the right corner, like this :
but I just can't do it.
Could you please help me?
Sorry for my english, I'm a ...
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What would be a passive way to indicate the start of a new lecture in a document? [closed]
I'm working on a LaTeX template for lecture notes. The template follows the book class and everything is fine. I have decided to only use headers, for showing the current section of the chapter and ...
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How can I achieve this TOC layout?
I'm working on a software for which I need to write up a LaTeX template. I've been able to glue together the rest of the template somehow since I'm a beginner. But I'm facing huge difficulty in ...
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Tell pdflatex to escape/replace missing figures
Sometimes, we want to replace a missing/forgot-to-upload figure with blanks or some placeholder
This can be done by changing the code and use the mwe package \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{example-...
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Koma Script scrlttr2 location height not matching DIN 5008 specification
I noticed that the height of the field "location" in Koma Script when using class scrlttr2 did not match the DIN 5008 specifications. There it should be 50mm distance from sheet edge and for ...
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Difficulties with book class and beginning of chapters
I want to use the book class but I have issues with the formatting: In my understanding, new chapters should always start on a right page but somehow that is not the case in this example:
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Detecting the position in page. If end of page then write at the bottom, else write in situ
I need to detect the position of the "cursor" in the page. I need a command which writes either "in situ" or at the bottom of the page (via \vfill directive) depending on whether ...
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Is it safe to use \usepackage{fullpage} for book publishing?
I'm putting together a paperback book using the \documentclass{book} layout.
I'm starting to use \usepackage{fullpage} to get bigger fonts and gain more flexibility in terms of layout.
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Wrapping text on multiple lines with \titleformat
I'm trying to reproduce this chapter header:
Currently it looks like this:
I'm using this code to generate the titles:
\documentclass[12pt]{book}
\usepackage{fullpage}
\usepackage{titlesec}
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Typessing on a grid (Quantum spaces by Jean-Luc Doumont) support in latex
I saw the presentation of Jean-Luc Doumont on typesetting on a grid.
He talks about some macros in this presentation, but I wonder if there is any package in latex yet, to support this.
Here are the ...
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Problems with page layout dimensions in the memoir class
Recently, when defining the layout geometry for my doctoral thesis, I faced the following problem: the dimensions informed by me, which I will call virtual dimensions, do not correspond to the ...
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"Jumping" text from one page to the other
In the pdf of a document I'm writing with the documentclass book I've seen that from one page to the other I have this "jump".
I tried to remove it with \setlength\marginparwidth{0cm} ...
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ConTeXt: is it possible not to apply setuplayout to part and chapter headers?
I need to have space for margin notes on my document, which I have done with the following \setuplayout (from this link):
\setuplayout[topspace=10mm,
width=middle,
height=...
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Any tips for interview transcripts & coding interviews in LaTeX?
Currently, I am working on my thesis which I write in LaTeX. Part of the research is qualitative. Now I stumble upon an 'issue'. As you may know, it is required to include an interview transcript in ...
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Connect Boxes in Table Cells by Arrows
I am trying to create a table containing in its three columns:
A top-to-bottom flowchart
Graphs
Figures
I have drawn the steps in the flowchart using a framed parbox:
\fbox{\parbox{20mm}{
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In the layout package documentation, line 134, why is \inch given as an approximation of 72, instead of it's true value of 72.27?
I'm sure it's not a bug, just want to understand why.
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Using margin within flowframe
I'm working on an A3 landscape document, which is divided into several blocks with different size. Hence, I come up to use flowfram to define all blocks. However, I need some margin for the text ...
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Let text body float around marginpar
How do I create a marginpar so that it is indented into the text body and the text body floats around the marginpar?
I know how to create a marginpar:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
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text layout 12pt? interline 1.5 texmaker
I'm doing a report and in the word should result in the text 12 and interline 1,5 but I'm not sure that 12 pt in latex is actually the same.
For the interline I'm using this
\onehalfspacing %interline%...
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Style and font from a document [closed]
I have recently found those really nice notes:
Introduction to geometric measure theory
Do some of you have any idea of the style or font used in this document? I would like to write in a similar ...
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Width of column for lyrics, songbook
I am trying to write a songbook for a friend of mine. But I am struggling to set the width of the column with lyrics (e.g. for Country Roads). I want one song on each page or in other words I want &...
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How can I achieve such layout in LaTeX (memoir)?
Before "Exercise 1.2", the page has 'margin note' and 'body' on its own but after that, the 'body' seems to have merged with the 'margin note'. I want to have the similar layout on my book.
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How to limit the amount of lines and strokes on a page
could not find any, could have used a wrong translation from german
my current assignment ask me that I limit per page about ~40 lines (Zeilen) each about ~60 strokes (Anschläge).
It was mentioned ...
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Custom table layout for variable description
What do I want to do
I want to create a table for presenting a lot of variables in a clear way. Each class does get its own table containing up to one hundred variables, so the the table has to be ...
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How do I box (highlight) phrases so that all the boxes line up horizontally?
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\documentclass[english]{book}
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KOMA-Script book too large bottom margin
I have written a book in KOMA-Script. I really trust Markus Kohm about his views on typesetting, especially margins, and I don't want to use heavy artillery such as geometry package. I set it all just ...
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Change report from one-side to two-sided
I wrote my diploma thesis in a one-sided layout (report) and now I want to print it, but don't want to have the back page blank on every single page. So I want to change the paper format to a two-...
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Two different sets of equations aligned to each other
I have the following problem: I want to have two different sets of equations aligned. Right now I have
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\begin{document}
\...
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How can I leave every page half-blank at the bottom – with footnotes still at the very bottom?
I want every page of my document to be half-empty at the bottom, so I have plenty of space for annotations without sacrificing horizontal space. However, I still want footnotes to appear at the very ...
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Text layout with precise dimensions
Geometry does not seem to produce what I need and goes for the default values. The text is 18 by 14 cm in this case, but not anywhere near to 18 by 11 cm.
\documentclass[12pt,oneside]{memoir}
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Page design and Tikz
I'm looking for a Tikz code, which can draw "canons of page construction" in a background of document.
Please take a loot at:
Modern book design, margins and typed area
I know geometry and layout ...
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Equations and equations tags in margins of koma script
I have a customized layout where there's a wide margin, sort of a 1.5 column document. I'd like to have the equations and equations tags in the margins, similar to what others do with cuted for a two-...
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Beamer's \only animations break layout intra-animation with multicol
I am typesetting code with minted inside a multicols environment together with Beamer's \only animations. That leads to inconsistent layout spacing between the animated frames.
Demo Video
(click if ...
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LaTeX strange page layout starting on second page
I am currently writing a paper and so far so good.
I somehow managed to mess up the layout, the text on the second page is shifted downwards and continues beyond the end of the page, see the attached ...
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Problem with filling inside the nodes of my mind map
I'm trying to the colors inside non root nodes in my mind map like the manual for PGF did for the root concept. But it never does anything to fill inside the nodes and create a border for my mind map. ...
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Error: ! Extra \else
I'm not a frequent user of Latex and I keep getting the following error when I try to compile my main tex file:
! Extra \else.
\@include ...ediate \closeout \@partaux \fi \else
\deadcycles \z@ \@...
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Draw margin boxes on page
I'm trying to make sure the book has enough margin space for printing. The minimum margins are
Top: 0.5”
Bottom: 0.5”
Left: 0.5”
Right: 0.5”
Gutter: 0.3”
I don't want to use these margins for the ...
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Easiest way to change altacv.cls to a single column
I really like some of the basic features of the AltaCV template (https://github.com/liantze/AltaCV) but don't like the 2 column layout. What'd be the easiest way to change the template to a single ...
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Change footnotes crawling up the page
I inserted an image into my text and it is too big to fit on the page so it is placed on the next which is fine. However, the footnotes on the first page are now crawling up and are right below the ...
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Optimal margins for a thesis written in Latex
This post is motivated by this post Recommended margin and binding offset and especially by the answer of Bernhard.
As someone who does not really have any clue about page layouts for books and ...
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Alignment changes partway through enumerate item
I'm creating a set of questions and halfway through one of my questions the alignment changes - you can see in the picture how the alignment changes for question 4b. I've not had this issue before ...
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Removing Spaces Between Documents
How can I remove spaces inserted between different documents.
\include{project/Chapters/doc1}
\include{project/Chapters/doc2}
I want these two documents glued together with no spaces.
Thank you!
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Proper way to create an aside/sidebar environment
So this is an issue I've had for awhile when learning about LaTeX and using it to create my resume/cv.
When I refer to a sidebar, I'm mean more like how it is done in these templates:
Example 1
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Cornell style layout
I am looking for a way to add text to the left "column" in my notes template. (It isn't actually a separate column in the code - it just looks that way on paper.) Here is an example of what a full set ...
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How to control the whitespace below wrapfigure?
I'm currently working on a term paper on neural networks that I'm writing in LateX.
I have an itemize environment (with different activation functions) and want to display the graphs of the ...
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