Questions tagged [parbox]
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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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Using overbrace with parbox in equations
I'm trying to use overbrace with parbox in an equation, but haven't been very successful. Any ideas on how to properly do it?
\documentclass[10pt]{beamer}
\usetheme[progressbar=frametitle]{...
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Center a \parbox or \minipage vertically
I'm not sure if I understand it correctly, but with pos=c either a parbox or a minipage should vertically align the baseline of the center line with the baseline of the text outside? However, what ...
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How to automatically linebreak an inline math formula?
Here is an example of a parbox that produces both an underfull and an overfull warning:
\parbox{100pt}{A set of comparison triplets \(T = \{ (i,j,l) | z_i \;is\; more\; similar\; to\; z_j\; than\; z_l\...
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tcolorbox is measuring the wrong height when a parbox follows
Awhile back, I learned how to measure the y coordinate in my pdf. I've recently run into a combination of parbox, tcolorbox, and XeLaTeX that is giving me bad results.
In the following example, \...
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Multi-line rows in a table are too close together
For a scientific paper I use the llncs layout. There I have created a table with tabular. The first column of this table should take half of the text width. The content of this first column can be of ...
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Parbox for longtext
I'm looking for basic way of placing long text into parbox or some other box which will break the page if needed.
Please take a look at my code. What is wrong?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[...
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Recreate Word document to include inside .tex
I would like to include 3 pages of a word document (an Informed Consent for my studies) in my .tex document.
I could include each PDF but I would like to know how can I recreate the document in TeX ...
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How to reserve the exact text size for the next frame
how to reserve the exact size of the response text for the next frame (when I use siunitx and animateinline combined).
\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{amsmath,amsthm,amsfonts,amssymb}
\usepackage[...
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Two columns of matching text
I'm formatting a translated book. There is a section where there is a poster that consists of two columns of related text. The various paragraphs, or in some cases, groups of paragraphs, match up with ...
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Style questions by using \multirow and \parbox for getting a nicely formatted table
The following situation gives me a lot of headache:
1) I would like to use \parbox to have also block text in the multirow areas. With the code below this doens't work. I tried to combine \parbox and \...
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How to turn off automatic text justification in a \parbox?
The following code produces the result in the picture below.
How can I avoid text justification at the line that starts with "Create Challenge"? I have tried to apply what is suggested here but it ...
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Line spacing not working in title created using a parbox
I am having some problems with the line spacing on my title page. My title is placed in a parbox and it was all fine until the title went more than 3 lines and then it became all squished up. Code and ...
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how to center rotatetext parbox?
the code below puts the text MNIST not at center. I want to center it align it with the text SSIM. I change parbox to different values of cm but nothing change. How ?
\begin{figure}[t]
\...
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Add margin to new lines in parbox
My table
\begin{table*}[!t]
\ra{1.3}
\caption{Well-known scheduling performance measures.}\label{tab:objectives}
\centering
\resizebox{\textwidth}{!}{\begin{tabular}{@{}llll@{}}
\toprule
\...
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How to align text and picture with parbox?
I would like to align the top of the picture with the top of the text using parbox. When I compile the following code with
LuaTeX, Version 1.10.0 TeX Live 2019/W32TeX format=lualatex 2020.2.26
...
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Annoying ghost column after parbox
So I've previously asked a question regarding figures and tikzpictures inside boxes from the TeX macro package insbox. I got a working MWE, but implementing it in my full document made me realise ...
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How to center a caption in Table* spanning multiple columns using \parbox?
I have two tables that must be placed side by side and spanning both columns of an article. To do so, I've written the following code:
\begin{table*}[!ht]
\parbox{.40\linewidth}{
\hfill{}...
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Section heading with shaded background spanning \textwidth, with uniform baseline
I’m trying to adapt one of the answers to this question so that only the section text, and not the section number, has a coloured background. Unfortunately the use of \parbox seems to result in a non-...
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parbox doesn't span text over two columns
In the document I'm writing I need to use a parbox with long text. The problem is that the text inside the parbox doesn't span over two columns. How to make the text inside continue to the next column ...
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How can I present these DNA sequences within a table using \pbox?
I've been stuck on this issue for a while now.
I have a table containing some DNA sequences, tabularx couldn't figure out where to hyphenate the sequence and the table ran out of the margins of the ...
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How to resize a parbox depending on the actual text width? [closed]
Context
I'm working on a pseudocode package to write algorithms with multiline support. Then, long lines can be broken and the proper identation is handled accordingly. I do the job with parboxes.
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vertical alignment of parbox one below the other
I want to align all the parboxes vertically so that the left corners are are equally offset from the dates which are in the left side
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage{...
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Unwanted space between parbox and following paragraph in custom command
I've created a custom command for CV entries. Unfortunately, the spacing between those entries is different, if there is only one line of text in the parbox. The following image shows the problem.
My ...
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Same text alignment inside a parbox as the environment where it is
How \parbox could "inherit" the "alignment mode" used in the environment where it is called?
In other words, how can I automate the text alignment setting into a \parbox, in order to take the same ...
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Vertically centered material in fixed height rows in tabular environment
The goal is to obtain a table with fixed height rows, and to place the material inside -certain- cells vertically centered.
Looking for a robust and simple way, I have worked on this idea:
\...
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adjust padding/width of parbox to make space for logos?
I am using the tikzposter class to create a poster for a conference. For conference posters I've typically included two logos, one on either side of the title box, but in this case the box isn't ...
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Alignment of a section in a parbox itself in a tabular cell
Let's go,
Here is the result my .tex file gives me now :
Here is the result I want :
(see the "2" position on the right side,
image obtained by replacing
\cellcolor{blue!25} \colorbox{green}{\...
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How to make a parbox with rubber width (like \hfill)
I have two parboxes that live next to each other:
\parbox[t]{2cm}{Foo!}
\hspace{3em}
\parbox[t]{12cm}{Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer
adipiscing elit. Ut purus elit, vestibulum ut, placerat ...
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fbox of parbox of textwidth length is too wide
I was implementing the code found in this Q/A How to put a long piece of text in a box? to create a command for a paragraph text inside a framed box. However the box goes too far into the margin ...
