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Moving paragraph start to avoid clash with header

I have a document where paragraph-level headings are placed in the margins. I’ve implemented this using KOMAscript as in the following MWE: \documentclass{scrartcl} \RedeclareSectionCommand[afterskip=...
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Text in \AddToShipoutPictureBG

I would like to put some text in the command \AddToShipoutPictureBG the desired output is printed in red on the picture. How can I do this ? I've tried using Foot left \hfill \page \hfill Foot right ...
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in minipage and parbox, lineskip is smaller

I am writing exercises answers, and I would like one particular answer to be displayed on two lines (in my example, answer n°(6)). I tried to use a parbox or a minipage environment, but in both cases ...
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An automatic parbox

I want a box (or minipage) containing some lines to make a specific height. Vertical spaces can be added automatically to fill between lines to adjust height. The box has to be as close as possible to ...
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Vertically align parbox text with tabular text

I have a table made with tabular that's 3 lines and a parbox that's 1 line. I want the text in the parbox to line up with the first line of the table, but I can't seem to make that happen. I would ...
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How to get a few paragraphs framed such that the frame is exactly as wide at the surrounding text and stays completely on the one page?

Let's say we want to get one or two paragraphs of text into a visible framed such that: the total width of the frame (including its borders) is the exactly same as the width of the surrounding text (...
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\parbox not working, or invisible?

I want to use \parbox to, well, make a box around text. But when I typeset, I just get the text and no box... I have no idea why. I am afraid it could be something in my preamble... I keep including ...
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Spacing between parboxes distributed unevenly

I'm fairly new to Latex and not sure, if the solution to my problem is an obvious one. I'm trying to get the spacing between the lines of those parboxes to be distributed evenly; the same distance ...
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Can't get two figures side by side to work

I have tried quite many methods of getting two figures to compile side by side. Most of these method end up giving this error Emergency stop subcaption.sty 66 Which shows this line in the file ...
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Text not visible because of page break

I'm trying to force a page break since the text is not visible, but I can't. I still don't understand why the text is not visible, since the space is there... I'm very new to the LaTeX world, so I ...
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Weird spacing when using tabular inside of center inside of tcolorbox env [closed]

Here's a minimal example: \documentclass{article} \usepackage[most]{tcolorbox} \newtcolorbox{workinprogress}[1][]{ parbox=false, #1 } \begin{document} \begin{workinprogress}[oversize] this ...
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Subfigure with vertically centered subcaptions on the side

I am trying to have multiple subfigures in rows with their respective subcation on the left side of them. I found a useful answer on the LaTeX forums using \parbox, but the subcaptions are not ...
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How to match parallel columns text after section title?

I'd like to match the text first line between two columns at the same vertical level after their respective section titles. MWE: \documentclass{memoir} \usepackage{paracol} \usepackage{microtype} \...
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Why does the following use of \parbox not work? [closed]

\documentclass{article} \begin{document} \parbox[c][5cm][t]{\dimexpr\linewidth+1\fboxsep\fboxrule}{ \hrule width \hsize height 0pt some text }% \end{document} I am getting the error ! Missing ...
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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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Centering a rotated cell

I tried quite some things but I am not able to get the rotated cells nicely centered. e.g. Patient is a bit more to the left. origin=tl to origin=tc did not work \centering did not work \begin{center}...
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parbox in math mode creating extra spaces between characters

\framebox{ \parbox[t][2cm]{2cm}{ $S: <NM, <Other> >$ } } Will output: S :< N M, < other >> with extra spaces between '> >' and between 'N M' and '&...
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Extend the height of parbox

I have the following command that prints text in the margins: \DeclareRobustCommand{\solutionpage}[1]{\marginpar{% \colorbox{lightgray}{\protect\parbox[t]{\dimexpr\marginparwidth-2\fboxsep}{~Proof ...
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How to make a sentence break at the right place in a parbox within algorithmicx-package?

I have this code \documentclass[conference]{IEEEtran} \IEEEoverridecommandlockouts \usepackage{amsmath,amssymb,amsfonts} \usepackage[noend]{algpseudocode} \usepackage{algorithm} \usepackage{...
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How to put an in-text DOI citation in a box to reduce space within the beamer document class?

I have created a custom \citedoi{} command based off biblatex's \citeurl{} command that is working fine. I can then put the \citedoi{} within a box near images or other things that need citations that ...
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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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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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