Questions tagged [phantom]
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Incomplete \iffalse; all text was ignored in tabstackengine
My MWE
\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\usepackage{tabstackengine,xcolor}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\makeatletter
\newcommand*{\pmzerodot}{%
\nfss@text{%
\sbox0{$\vcenter{}$}% math axis
\sbox2{0}%
\sbox4{...
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tikzmarknode and vphantom take up horizontal space
A tikzmarknode combined with a vphantom character takes up horizontal space. Minimal but nonetheless noticeable.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{tikzmark}
\begin{document}...
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Incomplete \iffalse in \caption, but correct in regular text. Where's the \if?
I'm trying to create a new character as a superposition of $\bot$ and =, as follows:
For some reason it is not working in \caption environments, as opposed to regular environments. What is wrong; ...
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Vertical alignment of inf subscripts without vphantom
I was wondering whether it would be possible to align the index of multiple infimums (or supremums, or limits..) without recurring to the \vphantom command - I feel somehow it's kind of "cheating".
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Alignment of terms within align environment
The solutions below require up-to-date versions of LaTeX
When I tried to run the solutions below on my own machine I was not able to reproduce their results, but still got unwanted offsets. ...
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Spacing from phantom symbol being consumed by summation symbol
The problem
I have found that when I add a phantom{{}+{}} in an aligned environment, if this is followed by a summation symbol, the horizontal spacing is not the same as if I had actually used +.
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\phantom not working with $\varbigcirc$ [duplicate]
When I do
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{stmaryrd}
\begin{document}
$\varbigcirc$ test \par
\phantom{$\varbigcirc$} test
\end{document}
I get
which is not what I would expect. I would ...
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How to make some character “unreadable” as text in the pdf output but still visible?
This question might be seen is a follow up/complement to this question and answer. I'm actually taking the example from there:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{transparent}
\...
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Specific alignment of subscripts in math mode joint with overleftarrow. How to avoid phantom space fiddling?
The oveleft/rightarrow-command is not optimal because it shiftes indices to much to the right in formulas like:
$\overleftarrow{D}_v$
Therefore, I use the following macro which I have adapted from ...
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How to vertically align subscripts in mathmode [duplicate]
I would like the "AB" subscripts in my formula to be vertically aligned with each other--ideally, by adjusting the second subscript to match the current placement of the first.
MWE:
\documentclass{...
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Is there a long version of \phantom?
Is there a macro or environment that hides its content, replacing it by blank space like \phantom, that accepts content consisting of multiple paragraphs?
(I am aware that I could use \color{white} ...
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\phantom ignored at beginning of line (or line break inserted) [duplicate]
In a document, I tried to use \phantom{} to indent the next line. However, it seems the phantom part is removed and/or a line break inserted.
\documentclass[xcolor=pdftex,dvipsnames,table]{beamer} %
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The phantom directive does not do what I expect
Typing these two codes on http://latex2png.com/:
\sqrt{\phantom{a^2}b}
and
\sqrt{a^2b}
I get the following results:
You will notice that the two square roots ...
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How to use format=hang *within* \caption{} which is already set to \captionsetup{format=hang}?
I know that \captionsetup{format=hang} will give me a figure caption like this:
Figure 1.3: Example: This is an example that is shown here. Look at the details of this
picture!
But how ...
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Is there a way to indent by the length of \phantom(text)?
I would like to write a text like this:
Text: This is a paragraph which is so long that it has a linebreak But the indent should be
set after \phantom{Text: }.
How can I do that? How is it ...
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How to make all parts of fraction, except numerator, disappear while keeping original position of numerator (or how to align at numerator with `&`)?
I have split the issue I have into 2 problems and decided to post them at once to avoid semi-duplicate since they are closely related. First is to render all parts of a fraction (including the line) ...
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Phantom not working as expected in cases environment
In the image below you can see the phantom not taking up as much width as it's expected in the cases environment:
Here's the MWE:
\documentclass{amsart}
\begin{document}
\begin{align*}
M+A+T & =...
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Inconsistent phantom space in table p column
Follow-up from this thread.
Issue
phantom seems to have an inconsistent behaviour depending on whether something is printed before its call when used in a p column type in a table.
When used on its ...
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Phantom Section/Subsection/Subsubsection in Beamer
I was trying to have some standard (sub(sub))sections, where beamer would automatically create a slide dedicated to separate them, and, in other cases, a section that would appear in the pdf ...
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\hphantom* vs \hphantom: Spacing doesn't line up
I assumed the asterisk for phantom-type commands disabled the phantom command.
What is actually happening?
(Why don't the a characters line up?)
\documentclass{scrreprt}
\begin{document}
\hphantom*{...
