Questions tagged [leaders]
Leaders are the TeX primitives used for creating repetitions of a box to fill up a space, for example in the Table of Contents. Questions about the usage of the TeX primitives \leaders, \cleaders, and \xleaders should be tagged with {leaders}.
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\vbox of the fixed height with leaders is not filled whole
I am trying some samples. They make a frame around the text. I know there are already realized commands for it but I want to practice leaders, rules and boxes in LaTeX. So the examples below are kind ...
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How to add a squiggle in the margin next to a paragraph in Plain TeX?
I am trying to reproduce the following in Plain (Xe)TeX (with more oscillations if possible):
That is to add a squiggle in the margin next to a given paragraph.
I was thinking of the following API:
\...
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How can I achieve this formatting of the table of contents (ToC) using titletoc, without running into the problem of unpredictably disappearing dots?
This question is a hopefully a clearer statement of a previous question.
I am using titletoc to format my Table of Contents.
Two notes right from the start:
1: in my actual document, I am also using ...
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In the ToC (titletoc), how to make sure the dotted line is never wrongly suppressed?
Edit
I have rephrased this question and, following a suggestion by one of the answerers here, I have posted it as a new question, here.
The original question
Consider the following table of contents:
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Incorrect headrule size in landscape page
The following codes creat a three-page document with wavedot headrule, and the middle page is landscape made by typearea.
The problem is: the headrule in the landscape page does not fill up the ...
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how to make dotted leader in ToC be the same size and style, as title which it follows?
Consider test case:
\documentclass{report}
\usepackage[titles]{tocloft}
\renewcommand{\cftchapfont}{\Large\bfseries}
\renewcommand{\cftchapleader}{\cftdotfill{3}}
\renewcommand{\cftchappagefont}{\...
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\Dotfill Not Completely Filling Dots
I am typesetting a book and am using \dotfill to produce a sequence of dots extending to the displayed page number in the Table of Contents.
Alas, with the following (MWE) code
\documentclass[12pt]{...
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Why are leader skips seemingly ignored in \vsplit?
I've gotten an expected result with a \vplit on a box with leaders. The leaders have a fixed amount of glue, plus stretch and shrink. The fixed amount seems to be ignored in the size calculation, or ...
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Replace dot leaders in the table of contents with a (dotted) rule
I'm working on a proposal with a strict character limit. I expect the funding agency will compute the character count in my document by simply extracting the text from my PDF. The problem is that the ...
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Tabular edge-to-edge dotted line: suppress overshoot, reduce dotsize, align dots to edges
I am trying to add dotted line from left-edge to right-edge of tabular after rows. There are 3-problems with my best attempt (code & screenshot below): 1) The length of the dotted line equals ...
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How to center text vertically between two horizontal dotted lines
The MWE is mostly self-explanatory. I would like to make a command which produces the given output. The command should take a mandatory argument specifying the amount of space above/below the text. ...
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\lowering \leaders
I'm using \leaders to make a flexible width rule, with the statement \leaders 0pt plus 1fil\hrule, but I also want to put text above this line. \rlap{text}\leaders works fine, except that the text is ...
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geometry: Calculate the fillable vertical space for a tcolorbox of vertical leaders
For the last page, a new sentence is typed above the footer that resulted in overlapping with the tcolorbox.
Therefore, I would like to make tcolorbox calculate the fillable vertical space of the ...
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Enclosing leaders by a border/frame
Following-up this answer, how can I edit the command \FillAnswerRules to enclose the leaders by a border/frame by using tocolorbox or mdframed so that I can get the same output of \CountAnswerRules?
\...
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\dotfill not working inside w column
In this example inserting \dotfill inside wr{3cm} column gives no result
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{array}
\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{|p{3.5cm}|}
\hline
\dotfill \\
\hline
\...
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autofill with square-pattern (leaders vs. tikz)
I want to autofill the rest of the line with a gray square-pattern in order give students an area to submit their mathimatical thoughts.
My solution is so far:
\newcommand\mySE{\vrule height 1pt ...
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List of Tables and Figures change the spacing between the dots, dotfill
Using a List of Tables and Figures, see link below.
How can I change the spacing between the dots? Is it called "leaders" or "dotfill"?
I can adjust the spacing in the ToC using \renewcommand\...
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Custom notation table with page reference
I would like to combine this question with this one.
The goal is to build a list of notation with the following properties
the symbol is on the left in a column with fixed width
the description is ...
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Too few/too many uses of box register in leaders
I'm playing a bit with TeX's leaders and ran into a problem I don't understand. Given the following example code:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\def\bul{%
\begingroup
\setbox0=\...
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\dotfill but slightly lowered below line
I am using \dotfill to create space for "fill in the blanks" but I do not like that the dots are exactly on the line. I would like the dots to be slightly below line. Is this possible?
\documentclass{...
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How to align consecutive \leaders properly?
I’m trying to build a construct with a box of a fixed filled with \leaders followed by \leaders with \hfill. However at the moment there is a little gap between these two making the pattern irregular, ...
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Align leaders to the right end of the enclosing hbox?
Suppose I have an alignment with two columns of centered text. How can I add a \dotfill between these two columns?
If I do this
\vbox{\halign{%
\hfil#\leaders\hbox to 5pt{\hfil.\hfil}\hskip 20pt ...
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Always display leaders, even when I have a line break
Consider this code:
\def\leaderfill{\leaders\hbox to 1mm{\hss.\hss}\hfill}
\vbox{\noindent\hsize 3.4cm Alpha adslf adsf kalsdf\leaderfill 1123}
\bye
The output is
But I'd like to have dots before ...
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\overstrike in ConTeXt, can it overstrike leaders?
I have the something similar to the following:
\setuppapersize[A6][A6]
\starttext
\overstrike{Hello\hfill world!} % Works OK
Hello\leaders\hbox{.}\hfill world! % Works OK, nothing special
\...
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Alignment of \dotfill or \(c/x)leaders to page numbers wtih different amount of digits
I need to create something similar to Table of Contents manually. For that I need dot leaders to go from text of the "chapter" to page number of this "chapter". I tried to use either \dotfill, \...
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\leaders when at the start of the line
I'm encountering an issue where I have \leaders that occasionally fall at the beginning of the line and as a result, there are no leaders appearing.
I have for example:
\hsize 9.2cm
Lorem ipsum ...
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Equivalent Leaders construction
What is the equivalent construction of
\leaders\hrule height 1pt depth 1 pt\hskip 20pt \relax
in terms of the following construction or something similar
\leaders\hbox{\vrule height 1pt depth 1pt}\...
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list with dot leaders
I would like to create to create list with dot leaders.Each entry into the list essentially contains four parts: a number, a description, dot leaders and lastly another number. I want it to look like ...
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randomly color leaders
After reading a bit on random coloring in LaTeX, I had the idea to use randomly colored leaders in a document. I came up with the following piece of code, which was stolen and modified from the \...
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Leaders in tocloft with minimum width
How can I redefine the leader in tocloft so that it is has a minimum length? The background is that I always want leaders in TOC to appear with at least two dots, forcing line breaks in titles if ...
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White marks around leaders in PDF
Why are there white bars between the leaders and each of the rules in this code when compiled with LuaTeX to a PDF file? When compiled (with LuaTeX) to a DVI file no white bars can be seen.
a \vrule ...
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Make \leaders repeat a string at least a given number of times
Using the glossaries and glossary-longragged packages (In a memoir document) as well as a custom style I found by Googling:
\newglossarystyle{dottedlocations}{%
\glossarystyle{list}%
\...
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How to align dotfill to the right
I use the following command below to make my list of nomenclature to look like the list of contents, but I am a bit disturbed by the fact that the dots between the text belonging to a symbol in the ...
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Multiple vertical rules along text – by using \leaders?
I want to draw individual vertical rules on the left side of consecutive paragraphs/vertical boxes covering the vertical skips. In my case for every paragraph/vertical box, there can be different ...
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leaders and evaluation order
I made this simple latex file :
\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{tikz}
\newcommand\randdot{%
\tikz{\pgfmathsetmacro{\r}{0.01+0.05*random()}\fill (0,0) circle (\r);}\ }
\begin{document}
\randdot\...
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Why \leaders and \mkern works strangely in different font size?
I can hardly determine a good title for this question, I'm sorry.
Minimal test code:
\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
foo
{\fontsize{18}{18}\leaders\hbox{$\mkern 10000mu.\...
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