Questions tagged [parbox]
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How do I add a background image to just a parbox?
I'm trying to design my CV and want to have a box at the top which contains some content on the left end (name and title) and content on the right (maybe a few rows containing contact info sorts of ...
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How to add margin inside a parbox?
I have create a parbox as below that I would like to have a margin between the border the text for top, bottom, left, and right:
\begin{center}\shadowbox{\parbox{0.85\textwidth}{text text text}}\end{...
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How can I make these \parbox margins wider in LaTeX
I have the below command, followed by the text that I want displayed. I've attached a display of the output. I would like the top middle text to have wider margins. I've tried tweaking the \parbox ...
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Any ideas on how this table could be made better looking?
\usepackage{multirow}
\begin{table}[htbp]
\begin{tabular}{p{2.5cm}p{2.5cm}p{1.5cm}p{6.5cm}}
\hline
\multicolumn{2}{c}{\textbf{Parameters}} & \multirow{2}{*}{\textbf{Used ...
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Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 36--37
I get warning which I can't understand.
This is my latex code:
\documentclass[a4paper,10]{article}
\usepackage[zw32010,crossmark]{ticket}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage[...
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Wrapped text getting merged with column values
I am using the following code for a table which doesn't look pleasing at all. I was able to wrap text but it is getting merged in the values given in the column. Any help would be appreciated.
\begin{...
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Weird behavior in \date field
I'm trying to "trick" the date field in \maketitle into allowing me an extra line to link to the latest version of my paper. I borrowed an example from here, and it works. However, when I try to edit ...
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How to align right every new line in latex parbox
How to align right every new line which I made using \ in parbox?
I've used parbox in latex for creating different part in latex business card.
On the left side I've used parbox and it is ...
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How can I fix this overflowing parbox issue?
I am trying to use an indented parbox, but the \textwidth command in the width parameter doesn't account for the indentation, and so the text overflows outside of my margin. How could I fix this?
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Easy way to line-break specific table cells
I have a table with long text and found a way to get rid of the issue where one has to do line-breaks manually. Here is the code for a very simple version of this layout:
\usepackage{booktabs} % for ...
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Cancel auto spacing/new line using parbox
I don't know why but with this code, Latex provide me a new line after each \wedge and some weird spaces after \alpha and \notin
$\rightarrow$= \parbox{5.5cm}{
$\{((s_1,s_2),\alpha,(s_1',s_2)) | \...
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\comment (verbatim-package) inside \parbox throws errors - What is the problem?
I have defined my own environment - lets call it 'myenv' - which shows and hides its content based on some global settings. I'm using the \comment and \endcomment commands from the verbatim package, ...
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How to highlight a `enumerate` environment in latex?
This is a continuation of this question.
The following code works very well to highlight a paragraphs(and inline texts too).
\makeatletter
\newcommand{\hl}[1]{%
\setbox\@tempboxa\hbox{#1}%
\...
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How to highlight some inline text using parbox?
I have some paragraphs to highlight for later edit in my latex document. For that I use the following code
\newcommand{\hl}[1]{\noindent\colorbox{pink}{\parbox{\dimexpr\linewidth-2\fboxsep} {#1}}}
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Using \color inside a \parbox causes vertical displacement
When modifying my answer to this question I came across some odd behaviour.
If \color{<color>} is used at the start of a top-aligned \parbox, then the entire box is moved downwards, like this:
\...
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\parbox in mathmode in Lyx
I am trying to write multiline text inside the mathmode in Lyx like this:
I did that based on this answer. I have made it work in Lyx by defining a macro
so that the usage is
and the output is that ...
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Form consisting of boxes. How to glue par-/frameboxes?
I was given the following to fill in, however the template was given in a word file and it is really awful to edit in and format properly.
I've tried to recreate it in Latex. My attempt is the ...
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Making framed section heading, using multiple parbox
I'm trying to build custom section headings, which have the text in the top of a coloured box of a specified height, with another coloured box of a specified height beneath. Much like this:
The ...
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vertically-align left-center-right line to the top
I found this answer which shows how to have a line with left, center, and right-aligned text. The thing is that I want essentially two lines, or a line break within each component.
This is fine, ...
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Big gap between two parboxes in modified RTL expex environment
Below are several sets of identical side-by-side parboxes; the right parbox contains an interlinear gloss (expex) and the left contains regular text. The top three sets are before the modified expex ...
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\ex with parbox causing example number to go into margin
The only difference between the two examples below is that the first one uses \ex (which displays an example number) and the second uses \exdisplay (no example number). They are otherwise exactly the ...
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Animateinline works in Beamer but not report
I have the following code that works in Beamer (first time using animateinline btw) and would like to add to a pdf text, but when I transition to report, it throws errors:
Missing \endcsnmame ...
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Multirow fails to join rows in tabular containing parboxes and figures
I am trying to join the rows of table that contains parboxes and figures, but multirow doesn't seem to work. Could someone please help me? Below is a minimum working example.
Thanks, Jorge.
UPDATE1: ...
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how can we get all these parboxes to align?
I have been reading Leslie Lamport's book on LaTeX and he discusses parboxes. He notes:
Many LaTeX users fail to realize how much they can do with the box-making commands described above. I will ...
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parbox in enumerate
The box is exceeds the right boundary probably because of the textwidth. I would like to have it aligned. Besides, what is \noindent for? Why it seems to be the same with or without it.
\begin{...
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I can't use `\width` as the argument for `\parbox` or `minipage`
I can't use \width as the argument for \parbox or minipage.
MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
Bla \begin{minipage}{\width}{test}\end{minipage}
\end{document}
To my understanding, ...
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Use \parbox like \empheq
MWE
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{geometry}
\usepackage[svgnames]{xcolor}
\usepackage[listings,skins,breakable,hooks,most]{tcolorbox}
\usepackage{empheq}
\usepackage[color]{changebar}
...
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Highlight parbox with frame
I have a little problem.
I use parbox and textblock to position my text in front of a more or less complicated background-image.
Now I would like to highlight my parboxes to see if all margins are ...
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Scalebox, Parbox, and Page Break
I have a long equation inside the scalebox. However, I can not force it to break between the pages. The code looks like this:
\scalebox{.95}{\parbox{\textwidth}{
\begin{align}
bla1 & bla2 \\
bla3 ...
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Equal size for parbox
I made a diagram with pstrick for my bachelor thesis. For this I defined a new variable.
\documentclass[%
a4paper, % Papierformat
oneside, % einseitiger Druck
%...
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Center text around certain position using overpic
I am using the overpic package to place text inside of a figure.
For using line breaks inside a put command I use parbox (see example code).
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[...
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Spacing Issue with table and parbox
how is it possible to correct the spacing of column 1 and the other spaces?
The MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage[table]{xcolor}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{graphicx}...
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How to use the full textwidth for tablenotes under multiple tables?
When i use multiple tables or also in the case of subtables and want to include one tablenote which describes all tables simultaneously the tablenote is only created for the left table not using the ...
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Pseudo-code with algorithmic. Escape and indent a function using varwidth and parbox
I'm using the algorithmic package to create pseudo-code for my document. One of the algorithms has a few lines that are too long and they go too far to the edge of the page so I wanted to add a ...
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Align enumerate label with minipage content in its items
This question is based on my previous question, List labels on left with Arabic using Polyglossia, however, it can be read by itself as well.
NOTE: You will have to use XeLaTeX and probably change ...
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Access height of a \parbox
Within a \parbox I can access its width via \linewidth (useful e.g. if I want to place an image as wide as the \parbox). Is there a way of accessing the height of a \parbox when the height is fixed ...
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How do I make an “inlined” parbox's top line align with its preceding text?
I have this document:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
$\rightarrow$ \parbox{6cm}{The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. You've eaten pepper? Now drink juice!}
\end{document}
which ...
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How can I create a box which extends to the end of the line?
I want to create a (par)box which starts wherever I am right now and extends to the end of the line. I noticed this related question:
Get current position in the line / get space until end of line
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Overfull underfull \hbox
I am new to LaTeX and I am having trouble with a document.
I am working off a CV template on ShareLaTeX.
I understand that overfull and underfull in hbox is a problem having to do with text being ...
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raggedright text writes over wrapfigure in a parbox
I want to have a parbox with an image in the top right corner and text floating around it. Using \wrapfigure, this works well. However, this doesn't seem to work with \raggedright, as the text simply ...
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Centralize table cells when using multirow and multicolumn
I have a big table shown above with some problems:
1- I want to centralize (horizontally and vertically) the contents of all cells except the second column, vertically and horizontally. Also to ...
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A parbox inside a textblock
I would like to have absolute positioning with centering vertical alignment. I am trying to achieve this by using a \parbox inside a \textblock (from textpos):
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[...
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vertical alignment in amsmath aligned
I have the following:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\begin{document}
\begin{align*}
&\pi(x) & \parbox{8cm}{Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, harum electram vim ut. ...
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Text inside parbox is invisible
The text inside the \parbox isn't showing up on the compiled pdf. What is the solution to this problem?
Best regards from Sweden.
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage[margin=2.5cm,a4paper]{...
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How to make a box with the minimal height and vertical alignment inside the box?
I need to set minimal table (one-row table) height, and valign content inside it. For this prupose i wrap tabular in parbox in tabular i have correct valign, and parbox gives me min height.
My ...
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Whats wrong in the document composition?
I generate document automatically, and got the error ! Extra alignment tab has been changed to \cr. I know this error, but i can't understand the reason in my case.
Here is minimum example:
\...
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Solving “overfull \vbox” in table with multirow
This table has been causing me nothing but problems. Right now, it looks OK:
But it's clear the vertical spacing is not so good. "Region" is too high (which I tried to address with the [fixup] ...
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How to split lines in msc message
I have long messages in an msc diagram. I thought of splitting the message into two lines so they do not overlap. I tried parbox but that resulted in an error. How can I split text line in an msc ...
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Irregular line spacing in parbox or minipage inside align environment using amsart
When I use a parbox or minipage inside an align environment (from the amsmath package) while using the amsart document class, the line spacing within the parbox is irregular. The following example ...
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Unable to center figures in table using parbox
I am trying to create a table with four figures centered and the next row should have its text centered.
As you can see, the parboxes aren't centered, I've tried several ways to fix this but am ...
