Questions tagged [positioning]
{positioning} is about positioning document elements. Use this tag in addition to other tags specifying what should be positioned.
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Moving a point along a “multi-node path”
I would like to create a gif (as explained in this answer) of a point moving along a crooked "multi-node path". I would like this path to be specified as below: a sequence of nodes connected by edges. ...
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How to position multiple pgfplots tikzpicture in a single figure
I'm newer to latex and pgfplots, and have a question on how I can position multiple tikzpicture in a single figure. In my example, there are 15 tikzpicture in the figure - 3 rows and 5 columns. How ...
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Local, relative, inner, intensive coordinate of one node
If often find myself writing:
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{calc}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\node (refNode) {\includegraphics[width=5em]{example-...
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Text Aligned in Friggeri CV Template Sections
I'm having trouble with text alignment in the Contact section of the Friggeri CV Template. I'd like the long e-mail addresses or websites names to be aligned properly to the right as everything else ...
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Beamer: Absolute Positioning of Picture | Unexpected Padding
I want to place/position images/pictures/elements in beamer absolutely.
I use the well known remember picture and \node at (current page.xx) appraoch.
In my MWE I want to position the picture in the ...
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1answer
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Lines and positioning of tables
I need to create this table
This is what I have done so far
\begin{table}[h!]
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{|l|c|r|} % <-- Alignments: 1st column left, 2nd middle and 3rd right, with ...
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How to decide figure placement specifier for the entire document
For figures there is posible to add placement spesifer like the following:
\begin{figure}[H]
\includegraphics{/path/to/figure}
\caption{}
\label{}
\end{figure}
Where [H] is the placement ...
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Error with Table position: [H] goes in label
I am trying to set up a document in Overleaf with \documentclass[12pt]{comjnl}
where i need to have a table in the middle of some text.
The table does not react when i use the position parameter ...
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How to align two lines in Tikzcd
I am trying to align two lines either at the head or at the center and I am finding it impossible.
For example, this code generates the following frame
\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage[english]{...
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Why when using the multicol package will tikz figures/ normal figures be pushed to the centre of the next page?
I'm trying to insert a simple tikz diagram into a two-column document and it keeps pushing it to the bottom of the next page. Is there a reason for this? I've tried moving it further up in the text ...
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1answer
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Forest package: eliminate vertical space between parent and child
I would like to zero the vertical distance between a node and some of their children. (I would be satisfied if I could do this for a node with a single child.) The desired effect is similar to a ...
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Latex figure 2 side
I am trying to get what's on the picture:
This is what I've tried so far:
\begin{figure}[H]
\centering
\begin{subfigure}{.5\textwidth}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=.9\linewidth]{...
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Jumping frame contents with beamer and pgfplots
I'd like to show a function using different values for it's domain, like "zooming out" over a series of frames. Using the following code, both the text before the plot and the plot's axes/frame jump ...
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1answer
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How to fix the position of align environment
Here is a quick question regarding the position of align environment.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb}
\begin{document}
%%% lots of text here.
\begin{align*}
& \mathcal{A}(...
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2answers
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Distributing tikz elements evenly using positioning library and length precalculation leads to wrong result
I am trying to distribute a number of tikz elements/groups consisting of one \pic (= an icon) and one text \node (= label) each evenly across the length of the text area.
I went about it by using a ...
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1answer
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Processing input file character wise
I want to process a non-English mixed file. For example, please see the following illustrative code:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
{\it It is a statement in English.}
\par
{\bf This non-...
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1answer
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Reading an input word in an array and then processing character by character
For some application, I need to read input tex file word by word (not necessarily as arguments of any command), and then to print each word after changing the positions of some characters within the ...
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1answer
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Place node in the middle on an arc during a foreach statement
This question is akin to this one, The difference being that I want to place my nodes during a foreach loop.
MWE:
\documentclass[border=5pt,tikz]{standalone}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[...
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Odd minus style when drawing american voltage
Looking closely at the image produced by circuitikz, I find that the minus sign of an american voltage looks rather odd. The alignment seems off and the sign seems much too wide. Is there a way to ...
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1answer
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Position of figures and text are not proper
Question:
Actually i am working with an example in which figures dragged above the question text i cant understand, what is the problem. Any help..
MWE:
\documentclass[12pt, a4paper]{article}
\...
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Shifting or stretching a float
I have got a float, that is minimal too high for a page.
Is it possible to either shift it up a bit, so that it fits between the head- and footsepline or to stretch it with, say 0.9?
My float ...
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2answers
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Economise space with floats
Consider this example:
\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\lipsum[1-4]
\lipsum[5]{1-14}
\lipsum[6][1]
\begin{figure}[htbp]
\centering
\...
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1answer
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Issue with positioning the footer text and footer rule
Consider this MWE, why is the footer rule position different on page 1 compared to the rest of the pages? Also related to the footer, how can I move the footer text down without affecting the position ...
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Let LaTeX decide where to place figures
There are too many posts that complains LaTeX is not doing a good enough job in placing floats such as figures, and ways to work around them ([!htbp], \usepackage{float}, etc.). Upon curiosity I ...
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Force float to top of page selectively
Consider this example:
\documentclass{report}
%\usepackage{float} ...
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Force a lonely float to top of page [duplicate]
I am not fond of solitary floats "floating" in the middle page. Consider this example:
\documentclass{report}
%\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}
\lipsum[1-...
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0answers
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Force figure placement in text doesn't work in 'gji' document class
I have a problem with placing the figure. It is placed differently than in the code. In the article document class I use [h] specifier from the float package, but in the gji class it doesn't work. (...
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1answer
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Encouraging LaTeX to more evenly distribute figures/floats across all pages?
I frequently run into a situation where several pages will be nothing but blocks of text, and later there will be several pages with multiple images. Is there a way to loosen how closely the figure ...
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Beamer: passage to 16:9 aspect ratio
I have a few questions regarding the passage from the default 4:3 ratio to 16:9 one.
1) Is it necessary to use 16:9 aspect ratio for presentations?
2) What is the difference between:
\...
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How to place part titles to top of paper
How to place part titles like chapter titles in book class?
MWE:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\titleclass{\part}{top}
\titleformat{\part}[display]{}
{\huge\bfseries ...
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2answers
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How to define a unique height of subscript and superscript indices?
Is there any package that fixes the height of tensor indices?
For example, I'd like to horizontally align indices in the following expression representing antisymmetrization of a and b,
\...
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Placing three figures side by side, each with its own caption
I'm trying to place three images side by side each with its own caption. The code written below works great with the placement of the images, but the captions don't. When compiling it only shows the ...
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Changing the position of scaling
when i run this code, I get a 10^4 on the bottom right, which seem strictly false. I would like to get rid of this one. And on the top left I have the scaling for the y-axis. I would either like it to ...
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TikZ: Advantage of position values attached with a unit?
Regarding TikZ-images: When should I type positioning values attached with a unit (e.g. \draw (0cm, 0cm)...) and when should I type them without a unit (e.g. simply \draw (0, 0)...)?
Minimum Working ...
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Trying to insert a background image via TikZ results in extra white-space around the corners
I am trying to insert a background image in my beamer template as follows:
\documentclass[10pt,c,aspectratio=169,a4paper]{beamer}
\usepackage{tikz}
\setbeamertemplate{background}{
\begin{...
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How to place nodes around a circle from some initial angle?
The code below generates 6 nodes placed around a circle at angles 60, 120, 180, ..., 360 with labels 1, 2, 3, ..., 6, respectively.
However, I would like to place these 6 nodes in the way (where the ...
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Extending anchors in TikZ
The following are the standard anchors available in TikZ (to the best of my knowledge):
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{positioning}
\tikzset{dot/.style = {
shape = ...
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Changing the position of the searchable word when using package accsupp
I used the answer of my question when using package accsupp so that the text can be found in Zathura pdf viewer when leaning over the "circle connection bar". And also I tried to save code using the ...
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Memoir : text on recto, figures on verso : Pages numbering and figures positioning almost done
If you have the slightest idea...
What I have already done in the formatting of my report :
Text on recto pages only
Figures and tables on verso pages only
Numbering only recto pages continuously (1,...
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Design an algorithm capable of predicting collisions to choose alternative path using `tikzpicture` environment
This is and addendum of a previous question: How to connect pics through a set of colorful arrows using tikzpicture environment.
I would like to be able to draw arrows that do not overlap with nodes ...
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pgfplots: How to control and align legend items precisely above each other?
The user marmot has posted a really nice approach of adding legend items into one single box below a multigraph diagram by placing them inside a \node.
Based on this initial situation I have tried to ...
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Computing letter coordinates (Typesetters Steganography)
Is there a way to find out about the coordinates of letters in a formatted piece of text?
Suppose the compiled text has three columns, and the letters are equally spaced. Then what I'm looking for is ...
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pgfplots: How to align legends of multigraph diagram?
Assumed we have the following MWE to display various graphs in one single diagram.
Minimum working example (MWE):
\documentclass[border=5mm]{standalone}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\pgfplotsset{compat=...
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WrapFigure bottom spacing issue
I'm currently facing an issue where a wrapfigure is making some lines not use the whole line, to make it clearer here's a picture:
As you can see there's plenty of space for the line to use, yet ...
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Tikz: place node leftmost of two nodes of different widths
I have the following tikz picture:
\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{positioning}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\coordinate (origin) at (0,0) ;
\...
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How to move the skills, hobbies and languages details in the “Designer's CV” template
I'm using this CV template found on ShareLaTeX/Overleaf site (source: http://www.howtotex.com/):
%%% LaTeX Template: Designer's CV
%%%
%%% Source: http://www.howtotex.com/
%%% Feel free to distribute ...
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Need to tilt this image inside the page so it is a perspective path, with tilted text. Path coming out of the page
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{arrows,decorations,patterns,positioning,automata,shadows,fit,shapes,calc,decorations.markings,backgrounds,scopes}
\newcommand{\xyz}{
\begin{...
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votes
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How to force some of the code to be at a different place
I'm writing my lessons on a big LaTeX document so, I've each chapter on a dedicated LaTeX file (which are imported by import command)
However, for some lessons, I want to set a "cotation table" (or ...
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How do I raise a figure (placed with wrapfig) to be flush with the top of a paragraph?
I am using the wrapfig package to place a figure with text wrapped around it. Here is a minimal example, with a screenshot of the relevant part of the output below:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{...
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How to reference/add tables/figures/graphs, after some point in the text?
Im new to this, I just have a simple question.
How to declare a table let's say after I mention it in the text.
What I want:
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah as shown in Table ~\ref{tab:...
