Questions tagged [parbox]
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Imposing similar heights for boxes using \parbox
I am trying to impose similar heights for 2 different boxes. I am trying to use \parbox but this doesn't work very well since the boxes have still different heights :
\documentclass{beamer}
\...
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How to correct vertical spacing after multiple side-by-side parboxes?
I use a \dated macro to put a date at the end of the line with some text left of it, using two parbox.
When the text uses only a single line, the spacing underneath this construct looks fine. But when ...
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parbox inner vertical-align "b" causes unexpected vertical white space
In the following codes, I put something into a lrbox named mybox. Then the content of the box is typeset by a parbox with three inner vertical-align modes - c, t and b. For t and c, the typeset is ...
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Tikzposter - Stretching the title box to accommodate a long title
I have a long title for my tikzposter, which I want to keep all on one line for the sake of the poster's spacing.
What I have now is this:
\centering
\settitle{
\parbox{\linewidth}{
\centering \...
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fbox without vspace
I am going to give a definition of a problem as follows.
\newcommand{\defproblem}[3]{
\vspace{4mm}
\noindent\fbox{
\parbox{0.98\textwidth}{
#1 \\
\textbf{...
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How do you center parbox vertically in a table
I created a table with images in them.
However I want the first column to have text and it should be centered vertically and the text should be rotated 90degrees.
To do this, I used a parbox however I ...
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Vertical centering using \longtable together with \parbox and in-table equations with enumeration [solved]
I am writing a multipage table using the \longtable package, and it includes equations within the cells of one columns. Since I want to preserve the document equation enumeration for later referencing ...
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tcolorbox overflowing text when using parbox=false
I have the problem that when I add parbox=false to the options of tcolorbox, the text within the box is not breaking properly. Do you have an idea what might be the issue?
Here is the code:
\...
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Alignment of overflowing rotated \parbox
I am looking to achieve the following within a figure:
A main graphics element which occupies the full \linewidth
Rotated text labels on the left and on the right, vertically centered with graphics, ...
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On moving a parbox generated by p{width} to the very right in a tabular
Let us focus on the following code:
\documentclass{book}
\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}
{|l|
r@{}@{\hspace{0.3em}}
|l|r|}
%--------------------------------------------------------------------
\...
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Thesis cover formatting
I need to put on the cover of my work: a picture, the name of the university, and another picture (logo). But the figures are one below the other (I need everything in the same line). I'm trying the ...
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LaTex - Table formatting (multicolumn, multirow, parbox)
I have created the table below.
However, there are some formatting problems that I can't get fixed.
\documentclass[9pt,twocolumn]{article}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage[format=plain, indention=...
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Height of \parbox can not be assigned with condition?
I want to assign the height of my \parbox with condition, as I did below, but fail. Why and how to deal with it?
Code:
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\usepackage{geometry}
\...
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Unusual Illegal unit of measure (pt inserted) in table involving tabular and subcaption
I have weird Illegal unit of measure (pt inserted) error that I cannot get rid off for some reason. The error occurs in tables that look like the one below (text details changed to xx). I haven't ...
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How to merge cells made by \parbox vertically
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{xcolor,pgf,etoolbox}
\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{showframe}
\geometry{left=1cm,right=1cm,top=1cm,bottom=1cm}
\parindent0pt
\begin{document}
\fboxsep0pt
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Width of parbox inside colorbox
I want to insert a colorbox into a margin paragraph. parbox is used to keep the line breaks.
What value should I pass to \parbox's width so it doesn't get too wide as it does now?
\documentclass{book}...
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How to store/append code for later use
To store some code for later use, I can think of two ways: \appto from etoolbox and \sbox.
They both have some problems in use.
For \appto, later invoke of a macro will cover the value of the former, ...
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tikzcd inside parbox
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz-cd}
\begin{document}
\parbox{\textwidth}{\[
\begin{tikzcd}
a \arrow{r}{} & b
\end{tikzcd}
\]}
\end{document}
The MWE above throws a ...
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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 insert a margin inside a double frame parbox?
I simply would like to insert a bit of space inside my parbox, but the following mess up with the frames:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{center}
\fbox{
\setlength\fboxsep{...
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tabu and extra vertical space for tall equation
Q:
Why tabu adds extra vertical space before first line of cell contents if the second line of a paragraph is too tall?
MWE below contains three use cases:
tabular (from array) approach with p{} ...
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Struggling with parboxes' width and placement in TikZ
I am trying to update my own resume/cv in LaTeX. I haven't needed to typeset anything in several years, so my LaTeX is very, very rusty. I took a look at several "cv" classes I like (limecv, ...
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What's the difference between [position]] and [inner-pos] parameters in \parbox?
I am trying to understand the documentation of \parbox (documentation link: http://www.emerson.emory.edu/services/latex/latex_147.html). However, I don't understand the difference between [position] ...
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Parbox figure and linespacing adjustments
I need a table of 5 columns where the last column contains figures. When I use \parbox , the spacing between lines increases and the figures are not aligned under the lat column. How can I fix it ...
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Make the line down in parbox
Why do I get a line in the middle?
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
%%\parbox[alignment][height][inner-alignment]{width}{text}
The answer is:\parbox[c][][b]{2cm}{\hrulefill}.\par
\end{...
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\parbox with stretchable height
I am trying to create a framed \parbox that stretches to fill the available space. I have tried
\fbox{\parbox[c][0pt plus 1fill][t]{3in}{...Content...}}
but the \parbox doesn't seem to stretch at all....
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What is the distance to right margin in nested aligned and enumerate environments?
I am using the \aligned environment within an \enumerate setup for formatting my assignment submissions. I have tried using the \align*, \flalign*, and \alignat environments but they didn't behave ...
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Why does adding a \label at the beginning of a \parbox affect its layout?
I was surprised to notice that adding a \label at the beginning of a parbox changed the layout of its contents:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
A\parbox[t]{3em}{\tiny B\\C} (no label)
A\...
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Suppress counting of fbox, parbox, minipage as table
I am running into an issue where either the fbox, parbox, or minipage is being counted as a table. As an example, I have added sample code that is similar to my setup. This code results in the first ...
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Can I avoid indentation of margin items when using parbox=false in a tcolorbox?
For a book project, examples, theorems, etc. are all styled using tcolorbox. (This part is not really negotiable -- the LaTeX code is generated by PreTeXt.)
I've been trying to figure out how to get ...
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Multi-line explanation including math and text next to equation in Overleaf
I saw two answers1 2 suggesting the use of \parbox in an \align* environment in order to type some long explanation next to an equation progression. I want this explanation to include a math ...
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Extend tabular signature lines to a prior parbox width automatically
My universities thesis style requirements dictate that a declaration page is furnished with information boxes (signature etc.). I can extend the signature lines to the end of the \parbox boundary ...
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Text out of fbox
What I'm trying to do is to put an equation inside an fbox.
Here's my MWE:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[italian]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage{amsmath, amsthm, amssymb, ...
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Tikzpictures and parbox inside an enumerate environment, how do I align everything to the top?
I start showing what I got and what I would like to achieve:
My code is the following:
\begin{enumerate}[(i)]
\item \begin{tikzpicture}[scale=0.6,every node/.style={draw=black,circle}]
\...
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Missing number, treated as zero within simple parbox/spacebox macro
I have a macro using parbox, spacebox, and some simpler whitespace. This generates a "Missing number, treated as zero." error for every time I use the macro. It still compiles to a PDF ...
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How to place boxed text next to an image of the same height?
I'd like to mimic the following style: having an image of an author next to a textbox of the same height.
However, my attempt is humorously unsettling:
It appears that the aspect-ratio of my face ...
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Inconsistent paragraph spacing with \parbox for custom design
I am working on a project that requires generating latex code programmatically from a JSON file, which contains a transcribed conversation. The design of the final goal is non-standard. It requires ...
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Pagebreak in \parbox
is there a possibility to allow pagebreaks within a \parbox environment? Here's the example
\documentclass{article}
\pdfpageheight=10cm
\begin{document}
\centering
\parbox{5cm}{
Lorem ipsum dolor sit ...
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Parbox won't stay vertically centered in some cases
I thought I had finally understood vertical alignment behavior of parboxes, but then this happened:
I have this tabularx with parboxes inside and broke my case (in XeLaTeX) down to this minimal ...
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aligning text level of text and parbox where text is wrapped
I would like this:
With the Tex code at the bottom I obtain this:
Tex code:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\begin{document}
Text1 \> \parbox{0.8\textwidth}{bla bla bla bla ...
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parbox automatic width calculation
Consider the following MWE:
\documentclass[letterpaper]{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\begin{document}
\noindent
$\begin{aligned}[t]
\left( \frac{1}{2}-\frac{1}{4} \right) \left( \frac{1}{2}-\frac{3}...
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Why does a parbox of height zero consume vertical space?
Assume we have a document where we have one paragraph of text, followed by two vspace boxes, followed by another paragraph of text. I thought that I could insert a parbox with zero height between the ...
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How to draw vertical line with exactly the height of a parbox next to it
I am trying to create small sections for a cv where the section name and a vertical line should be next to the content. The section name should be centered and the vertical line should be exactly the ...
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Sideways cell and normal cell don't align properly in tabularx
I'm trying to make a table where the first two columns should have their content rotated 90 degrees (sideways), the third normal (written horizontally), and the last one should have a \multirow with ...
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\textls letterspacing and parbox
I have a hack for fitting as much text as possible in a 2-line parbox using \textls (microtype package). Here is the code:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[cyr]{...
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Indents and spacings starting a line are ignored in parbox
When inside a \parbox, indents and spacings (like \indent, \quad, \hspace{}, etc...) are ignored when starting a line. For example, this code:
\parbox[t]{10cm}{
\indent indent does not work \\
...
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Why does \raggedright not work inside a minipage in this case?
In trying to suppress underfull box warnings in annotations to equations in align environments, I'm experimenting with \raggedright. I've discovered that it works inside a \parbox but not inside a ...
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Problems with aligning in \parbox and \rule alignment
I'm using the Twenty Seconds Resume/CV:
https://www.latextemplates.com/template/twenty-seconds-resumecv
https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/twenty-seconds-curriculum-vitae/kfgsngtymkfj
However I ...
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\raggedleft in conjunction with \\ not working in header
I am really struggling with the last change in my thesis regarding the header. The header is defined in the template I have to use like this:
\def\@evenhead{\parbox{\textwidth}{
{\thepage\hfill~\...
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Help in placing "2 parboxes in a single Row" in Bulleted or numbered Items
I want to make a book which has many instructions for solving mathematical problems and equations. It describes each step for equation solving. There are many steps.
Each step is different item. The ...
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