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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Beamer - Fix a sentence on the TOP RIGHT corner under the title
I would like to have an information on a box on the top left corner of my slides (under the title part) but I am not getting it right. I tried with tikz in this way, but it doesn't move it, it leave ...
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Positioning background image in beamer
\usebackgroundtemplate{
\tikz
\node[opacity=0.060]
{\includegraphics[scale=.85]{La Salle Logo.png}};}
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Why does latex place figure on the top of the page by default?
I've for a long time used [htbp] as options for the placement of figures, but if not specified latex places figures on the top of the page (t) rather than here (h).
Often, the result is that figures ...
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Beamer presentation - same image placement over successive slides
I'm doing my first presentation with latex beamer. My presentation does include some graphics, of which I want some to appear on several successive slides. However, I'm not able to place these images ...
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Conditional output dependent on position on page
I want to prepare a collection of small texts (letters, so there is no real headline that could be used as \section) with the scrbook class. Some of these are quite short, so several texts may fit on ...
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How to shift Block environment to the left in beamer?
I have a figure which is coming out of the block environment in a beamer presentation:
I found this thread and defined a varblock environment, where I set the width to be a little larger. But the ...
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Node position relative in one dimension but fixed in the other
I want to position the nodes "Herby I invite" and "to some event at my place" vertically below of resp. above of the name but horizontally I want to set the position to 10 mm. How ...
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Create minipage with text right next to minipage with table
Goal:
What I currently got:
\begin{figure}[tph]
\begin{minipage}[b]{0.6\textwidth}
\begin{table}[H]
\begin{tabular}{|l|l|l|l|}
\hline
Term & doc\_1& doc\_2& doc\_3\\...
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Aligning components in CircuiTikZ / TikZ
I'm new to LaTex in general, having discovered it in my search for a way to produce circuit diagrams, and therefore have arrived via CircuiTikZ and TikZ. So far, I'm loving it!
Unfortuantely, due to ...
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Forcing figure and text on same page
I'm currently writing a thesis in biotechnology and I'm quite new into the world of LaTeX. How do one force this image to stay on same page? The figure has to stay the same size. I'm going to remove ...
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Position something in Tikz beamer relative to size of figure in node
I am trying to position another figure or text on the side of figure that I include in a node within a tikzpicture environment. Basically I would like the following:
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| ...
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Positioning a section with long table
I'm writing a research paper. Between two sections, there is a Landscape Longtable. Organized in the following way:
Section1(Method)
Landscape Longtable
Section2(Discussion)
After section1, there is ...
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Position figures by \put and add text below in beamer
I am attempting to work through nice (absolute) positioning in beamer for a presentation. I decided to avoid tickz because I am running short on time. So I found a nice post here that offers a simple ...
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Tikz - better way of scaling and positioning reusable parts
I have some Tikz figures which I use in multiple other figures. Right now I put them in a scope and use xshift/yshift/scale to place them at the position I want them to be. I have one example. I need ...
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different number of columns in tcbitemize
I use the following code
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[most]{tcolorbox}
\usepackage{subfig} %For subcaptions
\newcommand{\mysubfig}[3][width=\linewidth]{%
\tcbitem\subfloat[#2]{\...
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Positioning subnodes above nodes
I am trying to create a picture as above, but I have issues with positioning as can be seen below.
My code:
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{positioning, tikzmark}
\begin{equation*}
\begin{...
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Center image in enumitem environment
In the enumitem environment at the secondary level of itemization, I want my figure to be centered relative to the text that is indented. How do I do this?
MWE
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{...
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TikZ-matrix over whole textwidth
I try to create a TikZ-matrix like that:
where bot rows had the height ca. 3cm. row 2 column 1 is planed as something like a multicolum.
But in the first I have problems with the last column of row ...
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TikZ, geometry: Gap over tikzpicture
I choose width=18cm, height=26cm in geometry.sty.
If I set the origin at the page center and positionate a node at (-0.5\textwidth, 0.5\textheight) I get a gap over the tikzpicture.
How to get rid ...
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How to set table row heights with multirow and m{} column?
A MWE is as follows (not extremely minumum):
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{array, multirow, float, bigstrut}
\newcolumntype{M}[1]{>{\centering\arraybackslash}m{#1}}
\renewcommand\...
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Push tikz nodes to the axis limits as much as possible
I would like to place nodes to straight lines as close as possible to the axis limits but still in the axis, regardless of the length of the node text. While I was able to do this for labels that ...
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Correcting TikZ pattern offsets
I have some automatic placed nodes which should be filled with a pattern. However, I noticed that the pattern offset depends on the node position, which makes the nodes looks different.
Minimal ...
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How to “pin” a node to an anchor (also for later references)
First, a disclaimer: I cannot believe that I'm the first one asking that, so I probably missed an obvious answer.
We can use anchors to position a node. But after positioning, the default anchor for ...
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Pretty statistical evaluation (min, max, avg, std)
Is there a better way of formatting statistical values in continuous text than this?
The participants of the study were on average \num{33.5} years old (min=22, max=51, $\sigma$ =8.55, median=34).
I ...
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\mathrlap type instruction but only 'locally' [duplicate]
\documentclass[a4paper]{report}
\usepackage{mathrsfs}
\begin{document}
\begin{equation}
\sum_{a',a'' \in \mathscr{A}} c_{a'}^* \, c_{a''}
\end{equation}
\end{document}
results in this output:
.
...
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How to vertically center text in beamer notes
I have some beamer slides with notes on the right hand side, and would like to horizontally and vertically center the text on the note page.
I've tried:
\documentclass[11pt]{beamer}
\usepackage[gen]...
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Positioning figures disturbs subsequent spacing
I'm approaching the end of my thesis but now encounter some problems regarding the positioning of figures. My preamble looks like this :
%\documentclass[man, apacite]{apa6}
%\documentclass[jou, ...
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Setting default figure* position to 'page for floats only'
I have a XeLaTeX document using package multicol, and (in my real world document) I want to temporarily put floats all together on a special page. Unfortunately under some conditions it seems that ...
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Put text anywhere at the document
I am wondering whether it is possible to position any object like text or image on top or behind the existing text in the document without affecting it?
That is to say, make an object float like a ...
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Raising the vertical position of \chapter and \tableofcontents using amsbook
I am required to have 1 inch margins all around my amsbook document and am having trouble figuring out how to reduce the vertical space at the top of each page containing a heading such as list of ...
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luatex hlist node shift direction seems incorrect, what is the cleanest way to achieve pdf object translations (displacement)?
From the description of hlist nodes in luatex manual, its field 'shift' seems to be a vertical shift. But when I change it using post_linebreak_filter, it adds horizontal shift to hlist. This overleaf ...
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force placement on top of page
I have some tables that get sent to the end of the text but I would like to place them on top of pages within the text. Is there something like T that is the equivalent of H from float for top ...
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Avoid table moved to end of text
I have some table, spanning about 17 lines and despite specifying \begin{table}[t!] it gets placed at the end of the text at the center of its own page. How can this be prevented and the table forced ...
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Controlling table placement in nature document class
I'm typesetting a document using the nature document class. I'm having trouble specifying the desired location of a table float in the document. Concretely, I do the following:
\documentclass{nature}
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Shift \titlegraphic logo upwards in beamer title frame
How can I up the image inside \titlegraphic vertically ???
this is the code:
\documentclass{beamer}
\mode<presentation>
{
\usetheme{Madrid} % Antibes, Dresden
\usecolortheme{beaver}
\...
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Text continuing on the same page even though the text exceeds the page
My question is concerning the text when the text exceeds 1 single page, it will simply not jump to the next page - instead, it is continuing on the same page and at some point, I can not see remaining ...
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tikz automata: making the label positioning of a transition independent from the fact that a state is accepting or not
While writing some code that generates TikZ code for displaying an automaton, I encounter the following issue: with the same label annotation, namely 'edge[bend angle=18,bend right] node[below=0,...
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Image going down in the next page, shifted towards right
\documentclass[12pt]{exam}
\newtheorem{theorem}{Theorem}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{commath}
\usepackage{epstopdf}
\usepackage{tikzpagenodes}
\...
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Absolute page coordinates of metapost figures using luamplib/lualatex
How can one draw/place metapost figure elements (using luamplib in lualatex) as if the pdf page were a graph paper? So there is origin: (xorigin, yorigin), and all the elements are placed relative to ...
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Friggeri-cv: How to produce this particular text position?
I'm trying to adapt the cv-friggeri-x CV template to my needs.
One big problem I'm facing is that I usually make my CV on two pages (yes, I know, that's not the taste of everyone :D ). The problem is ...
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pgfplot picture placement
First of all I am extremely thankful to stackexchange and particularly to Schrödinger's cat for helping me pgfplots and tikz.
I am preparing my lecture on continuous random variables, I have made the ...
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Repositioning the code and CFA graph
I have this latex code of lstlisting that writes code and CFA graph. how to put the graph to the right site of the page and the code in the left site of the page?
\begin{lstlisting}
extern ...
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How to specify listing position to start in the top of the page or new paragraph?
I use listings package to add some code snippet. I input the code from files using \lstinputlisting. Some codes are long so the listing starts at one page, then continue to the next page. I am fine ...
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Table of Contents is positioned too low Latex
For some reason my table of contents and my list of figures are centered on the page whereas I want them to start at the very top. How do i fix this?
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Out-of-order arrangement of minipages, such as to manipulate subfigure captions
I want to arrange 8 subfigures in Latex in this way.
But the captions need to be modified in the form:
C F
D A G
E B H
The current implementation uses three column-wise minipages.
\begin{...
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How can I fit this image into the second column, below my text, in a two column format?
I need to fit an image into the second column of my document, but for some reason it keeps moving to the second page rather than in the second column.
*Here's my code:
Texttexttexttext
\begin{...
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Positioning of a picture
I have recently downloaded a template for a CV and letter of application. However, I am not entirely content with the "About me" ("über meine Person") page.
Here is a picture of the page:
How can ...
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Position of footnotemark after includegraphics
I know a lot of questions have been asked about footnotes in captions and others.
I am currently working on a beamer presentation where such mechanism is not always necessary, on the contrary, \...
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Caption positions in centered tables
I wish to centre a table and that the caption will begin where the table begins (see the red line in the attached screenshot).
MWE:
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{float}
\...
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How to correct the position of an arrow added as a decoration marking?
My problem is related to How to draw an arrow in the middle of the line of a circle and how to position the arrow? and How to draw various tangent circles in a circle?
I am attempting to draw 8 ...
