Questions tagged [lengths]
{lengths} is for questions dealing with measurements in TeX. If your question is about the spacing between document elements, use {spacing} instead.
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Would it make sense to use the "plus" and "minus" components of \baselineskip?
According to latexref.xyz:
The \baselineskip is a rubber length
but also
The \baselineskip’s value is reset every time a font change happens and so any direct change to \baselineskip would vanish ...
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Accessing indent length with enumitem
For a package I'm writing, I need to access the actual amount a list item is indented. Here's a minimal example showing what lengths are available to me, but they don't seem to give me what I need. ...
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Why would I use \dimexpr .. \relax in \setlength?
I read somewhere that you should use \dimexpr ... \relax when defining lengths.
Is that really the case? There seems to be no difference between using it or not:
\documentclass{article}
\newlength{\...
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How to manage rectangles and lengths with TikZ package?
I have been customizing a CV template but having some trouble with the TikZ package; indeed I'm a novice and it's a little bit difficult for me to find the solution by using the official documentation....
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Control the distance between table of contents elements
I want to understand what are the lengths dimension #1 and #2 in the following example.
Moreover, is the blue dimension in the picture equals the length of \parskip?
How can I control the dimensions #...
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How to horizontally center an A4 paper inside an A3 paper?
I'd like to embed an A4 paper inside an A3 paper in such a way that the A4 paper be horizontally centered inside the A3 paper. (The relative vertical alignment is immaterial.)
I tried to use the ...
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Specifying the Length of a Bclogo without Enclosing It in a Minipage
Consider the code
\documentclass[12pt]{book}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage[tikz]{bclogo}
%\usepackage{lipsum}
\definecolor{bulgarianrose}{rgb}{0.28, 0.02, 0.03}
\begin{document}
\thispagestyle{...
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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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Increasing natural height of minipage / fbox
I would like to define an environment encapsulated by a box where I am able to insert unspecified content (text, equations etc.), but where I can increase the natural height of the box. A minimum ...
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Beamer - Fitting multiline title into a single one
I am trying to adjust a multiline title into a single line. I found the length of the text and check if it is larger than \linewidth or \textwidth. Both dimensions gave larger values than expected. ...
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expl3 / set length to average charwidth
I have a function that calculates the average character width. The function calculates the width as expected, but I can't use it in setlength.
I've tried around and tried solutions I've googled, but I ...
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Wrong length (or \parbox)
Let's say I want a perfect alignment of these two equations (an OCD I have). The red line is just for comparison:
This is my MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage {amsmath}
\begin{document}
\...
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How to get precise lengths (e.g., 5 cm) on the screen with tikz, pstricks, evince, and gv?
Let's feed the file mwe.tex containing
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\pagestyle{empty}
\usepackage{pstricks,tikz}
\begin{document}\noindent
\begin{pspicture}(-1,0)(1,5)
\psline(0,0)(0,5)
\end{...
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Problem with \pagegoal
At the beginning of page, \pagegoal=\maxdimen and therefore \pagegoal-\pagetotal=0pt or sometimes \maxdimen. So I tested for \maxdimen, but got strange results (see MWE).
Is there a good way to get ...
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expl3 multiply length by a dimensionless factor
In the following code, i would like to print the value of \baselinestretch * \baselineskip instead of \baselineskip only. I tried with \fp_eval:n but that did not work.
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}...
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Conversion of "scaled points" (TeX lengths) to "PDF points"
If I'm not mistaken, sometime within the last two years the conversion factor has changed from 65,536 (2^16) to 65,782. (At least in LuaLaTeX for the lengths in "pdf literals").
Why the ...
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Footnote index size and position
Is there a way to drop the footnote index below?
I looked away https://www.ctan.org/pkg/footmisc
But I didn't find anything there to help me
\hangfootparskip \hangfootparindent \footnotemargin
\...
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Change Units in Calculation
Quick question. I'm looking for a way to change the units of a length while performing a calculation. I'm currently using the ragged2e package and trying to adjust \setlength{\RaggedRightRightskip}{...
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Get the height and depth of Hebrew letters
I have seen here the use of adding and subtracting the height and depth of the letter X and the letter p when defining vertical distances between objects on the document.
My document is in Hebrew and ...
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Are the widths of 𝐿, 𝑌, and 𝑍 in TeX Gyre Termes Math really equal?
It was a surprise to me when feeding lualatex with
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{unicode-math}
\setmathfont{TeX Gyre Termes Math}% or \setmathfont{texgyretermes-math.otf}
\begin{document}
...
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How can I use \if to enter a new line automatically when my text is too long?
I have a section in my document where writing space is limited and when there's a text entry that's too long, it does not look great because the points span two lines as shown in the first image below....
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Determine the length of the rest of a math display line for multlined
\documentclass{article}
\pagestyle{empty}
\usepackage{mathtools}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\lipsum[1]
\[
\text{beginning}\land
\begin{multlined}[t][\linewidth]
(\text{extremely long ...
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Defining an Em Dash with Length Greater Than the Cabin Default
I have noticed that the length of an em dash is not always uniform, depending upon the font being used.
Consider the following code which defines an em dash:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[T1]{...
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assign length units after number defined
I have a latex which which does some calculations, but the functions are not available for Lengths. I would like to be able to assign the unit to the output of the math. The following succeeds without ...
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Illegal unit of measure produced by a LaTeX3 function
I used the function
\cs_new:Npn\宽度{168/(1+\thecnt)}
to compute length, where cnt is a counter and 168 actually is the width of a4paper in millimeters times 0.8.
Now
\setlength{\tabcolsep}{\宽度 mm}{\...
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Difference between \skipeval and \dimeval
What is the difference between \skipeval and \dimeval? They appear to produce the same result, but perhaps \dimeval removes the glue?
\rule{\dimeval{ \linewidth plus 1cm minus 1cm - 1cm}}{1pt} a\\
\...
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Over height dashed line with kpfonts-otf
Consider the following example, when using kpfonts-otf, the vertical dashed line becomes over height:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{kpfonts-otf}
\usepackage{arydshln}
\begin{document}
\[\def\...
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Variable containing the total horizontal length of a table
I am trying to put a minipage inmediately below a table, the minipage will be scaled X.Y times the total horizontal length of the previous table. Since I have several tables with variable cells' ...
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Is there a possibility of writing length or width of measurements in latex as a sum or difference of 2 or more values
I wish to know if there exist a way in latex of writing the length or width of something as a sum or difference of 2 or more measurements e.g
\parskip + \baselineskip, and/or
\textheight - 5\parskip?
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How to get width of parameter in plain TeX?
I am trying to get the width of a macro parameter using
\def\getwidthof#1{%
\newdimen\myl%
\settowidth\myl{#1}%
\the\myl%
}
where \settowidth is defined as
\catcode`\@=11
\newbox\@...
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How to trim (adjust) a coloured box to a text? [duplicate]
I have a coloured box that i use, and it always takes up the whole line no matter the texts length. I would like it to stop with the text.
\usepackage[table,xcdraw]{xcolor}
\usepackage{tcolorbox}
\...
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Calculate ratio between lengths/scale
I would like to calculate the the ratio between two lengths in order to automatically get the scale for a map included using the mercatormap package. For instance, I want the map to show 1km in the ...
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How to make the flexible space discrete?
When typesetting Eastern Asian materials, positions of characters are normally relatively rigid. But there are unavoidable situations in which flexible spaces are needed, which are typically defined ...
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Calculate a floating point value to scale a length
As background, I was trying to write a macro that divides a page into columns given just a decimal scale factor. For example, given an input of .7 it should create columns of width .7*\textwidth and ....
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How to make \rightarrowtail and \twoheadrightarrow longer?
I am typing out short exact sequences and want to use \rightarrowtail and \twoheadrightarrow, but they have symbols above them so they need to be a lot longer, like \longrightarrow. Yet there does not ...
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memoir.cls: struggling with lengths
dear texperts (peter?):
I am still struggling with memoir lengths. I decided I need to understand the basic accounting identities here. So I wrote a simple tabular display helper --- not very ...
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avoid squeezing of line distance [duplicate]
This is probably a trivial question, but I can't find an answer: In some circumstances (large verbatim environments between paragraphs, many empty sections), LaTeX squeezes the line distance within ...
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How to Automatically Center Verse
Consider the following code:
\documentclass{book}
\textwidth 5.75in
\usepackage{verse}
\begin{document}
\thispagestyle{empty}
\LARGE
\vskip 25pt
\begin{center}
\textbf{Casey at the Bat}
\end{center}...
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Changing the default length unit in tikz
Is there a way to change the default length unit in tikz to the ex unit? I have trouble while calculating complicated coordinates in tikz when I'm using the ex unit (I always get an error or a wrong ...
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calculate length in \newlength with \dimexpr
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{showframe}
\geometry{left=1cm,right=1cm,top=1cm,bottom=1cm}
\begin{document}
(1)
\newlength{\ccc}{\dimexpr\textwidth-100pt}
% ...
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How to get length from glue
The objective of the following code is to occupy the rest of a line with a parbox. I know this is a wrong way. So, how to get length from glue?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{...
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How do I get the rubber components of an l3skip?
Related to my question on l3skip to \setlength.
\ExplSyntaxOn
\skip_const:Nn \c__par_skip { 1ex plus 0.2ex plus 0.1ex }
\skip_gimme_the_stretch:NN \g__par_stretch_fp \c__par_skip % 0.2ex
\...
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Passing a length as an argument to raisebox
To summarize it: I think \depth is losing its information somehow and I was not able to fix it.
I am trying to place an image inline and to adjust its vertical position with \raisebox, like so:
\...
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Which length still creates the distance between the 2 boxes
I try to place 2 boxes on top of each other. I would like to define the height of the lower box and a potential gap between the boxes and the top box should use the remaining space.
As you can see in ...
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How to make the value of a lengh macro change with another
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{xcolor,pgf,etoolbox}
\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{showframe}
\geometry{left=1cm,right=1cm,top=1cm,bottom=1cm}
\parindent0pt
\begin{document}
\newdimen\...
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What is the unit of width and height in circuitikz?
\ctikzset{quadpoles/transformer core/inner=1,quadpoles/transformer core/height=2, quadpoles/transformer core/width=0.6}
What are the units of the 2 and 0.6 here?
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Enlarging the Length of a Particular Page in the TOC to Accommodate an Additional Entry
I would like to selectively enlarge the vertical length of a particular page in the TOC to accommodate, say, a "widowed" entry.
Consider the code
\documentclass[openany]{book}
\newcommand*{\...
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How to make all \parbox with same height
Running the following MWE will get an ugly typeset which I think is for the reason of different heights of all thees\parboxs.
My question is: As the contents of all \parbox cannot be foreseen, how to ...
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How to \read inside a command and return the result?
As a followup of How to use file content as a numeric value for a length?, I'm trying to do this (I really need to read the data.txt file inside this new command and use the value later, when the ...
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Parametrization of the column width in the tabular environment
I want to set the parameter \xx to define the tabular below.
However, I do not know how to expand the term (1-\xx) so the code below does not compile. I would appreciate your help.
\documentclass[12pt,...
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