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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Framing a colored box with an image
I have a color box (made with tcolorbox) that holds text, and I want to frame it. Unfortunately, I'm copying a style so I can't use a normal border. The border I want is only on the sides of the box ...
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How to make this template for an article? [duplicate]
I want to separate the address of the authors with a box where I will put the abstract according to the graphic template below. Right alignment is important.
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Prevent picture overlap using wrapfig and float packages
In the MWE below, if
a figure is floated directly under the paragraph next to a wrapfig AND
the wrapped figure extends passed its adjacent paragraph,
part of the wrapped figure is obscured and the ...
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Rotate node and use relative positioning when using two lines
I'm trying to do something to do something very similar to this:
Rotate node text and use relative positioning in TikZ?
Except I would like to rotate multiple nodes, and I end up with one node '...
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Moving CC in scrlttr2 to the top
I would like to add a CC line between the address and the "yourref"-part.
Placing the \cc command just after \begin{letter} places the CC-text at the same place as the from-address. Is there any ...
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Prevent placing figures below each other
I have a latex document using the acmart documentclass (2 columns layout). For the figures I have used [ht!]. Unfortunately, now I have at the top of one page two figures directly placed one below the ...
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beamer theme Madrid with biblatex style=authoryear leads to bibliography position offset (first line indentation)
I stumbled upon this, take a look:
\documentclass{beamer}
\begin{filecontents}{references.bib}
@article{myart,
author={Author, A.},
title={My Title},
journal={A Journal},
volume={123},
...
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Make \lim be multi line instead of single line
I am using this to represent a limit:
\lim _{b\rightarrow \infty }
But the limit expression gets on the side of the lim symbol.
I want it to be under lim.
I see that in some LaTeX represented ...
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Place object in custom position, but differently for odd and even pages
This is an example page, with a custom footer, containing two different text blocks in the bottom right and bottom left, temporarily using package textpos:
\documentclass[12pt,twoside]{article}
\...
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Vspace to an absolute page offset
I'm producing a series of flash cards in LaTeX (well, actually XeLaTeX). Each card has a title, a short paragraph of text, and a table, which is the main purpose of the card. Occasionally the ...
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Issues with doclicense, both with fancyhdr and with background
This is an attempt to insert the doclicense output in each page of a document, using fancyhdr:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[
type={CC},
modifier={by-sa},
version={3.0}]{...
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How can I achieve this use case diagram using tikzpicture environment
I am using the last example of the Chapter 3 - "Use case diagrams" TikZ-UML manual (pp. 34-35).
Please consider this MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english]{...
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Position image with 6 smaller images on the side
I am having troubles positioning 7 images: I need to have a big one on the left side, and 6 smaller on the right, each one of them with a different caption, and a big caption below all of them.
It ...
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Positioning tables and figures at the end of the respective caption list
Sir/Madam!
My landscape tables are appearing in the body of the text whereas portrait tables are appearing at the end of the file. Please help me to remove the figures and tables from the text of my ...
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Distance rectangle - text chapter using fancy header [closed]
but i'm non able to solve some problems:
\documentclass[svgnames,12pt,a4paper,oneside]{book}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc} % lettere accentate
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} ...
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Tikz with standalone: pinning tikz coordinates to page cm
I've got something like the following:
\documentclass[tikz]{standalone}% Does not support leap years.
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage[paperwidth=12cm, paperheight=25cm, margin=0cm]{geometry}
\...
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Dividing a page into several horizontal minipages [duplicate]
Suppose there is a LaTeX document with format like \documentclass[a4paper]{article}. Is there a way to divide a page into several horizontal ones, say n=3 or n=5 (a parameter specified for all the ...
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Position nodes relative to regular polygon anchors
I have a regular polygon, and I'd like to position nodes for instance above the first corner, or next to the nth side.
This is my sample:
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{...
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Positioning groups of tikz nodes relative to their centre
I'm trying to draw a tikzpicture in which the centre of a group of nodes is at a given position relative to the centre of another group of nodes.
I've tried to use fit, pic, and I've looked at other ...
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Use (remember picture, overlay) TikZ picture to design parts, chapters, ToC, Bibliography, Index
What I have
I am designing the format of the parts and chapters in my document using TikZ picture, with remember picture, overlay option, like this:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{tikz}
\...
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How can I make these \parbox margins wider in LaTeX
I have the below command, followed by the text that I want displayed. I've attached a display of the output. I would like the top middle text to have wider margins. I've tried tweaking the \parbox ...
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how to place a non-floating figure using x,y page coordinates? [duplicate]
I wish to know if is it possible to place a non-floating figure using x,y page coordinates? Also above other figure or text
For example. The yellow rectangle is the area where I wish to place my ...
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Problem to place a Figure in a top of page before Chapter Title
I am trying to place a figure in a top of the first page (red cross position) before Chapter 1
When I try to use the folowing code
\makeatletter
\setlength{\@fptop}{0pt}
\makeatother
\documentclass[...
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KOMA Report: how to set the distance between page border and page number on top of page
Using KOMA Report, I want have the page number in the top center, 1.25 cm away from the top page border, and maintain a top margin of 2.5 cm.
I am using
\usepackage[top=2.5cm]{geometry}
with
\...
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LaTeX Flow Text Around Background Image
I would like to have text flow around the positive space of the background image in my PDF, kind of like the image on the left (from the DnD 5e player's handbook):
I'm not really tied to a particular ...
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How to make text fields for signatures at the bottom of each page?
I need to make text fields for signatures at the bottom of each page.
Like this (i drew it in Adobe Illustrator):
How can i do this?
Paper format: A4.
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Placement of rectangles next to each other
I want to have some rectangle nodes horizontally adjacent to each other.
My attempt at this is ok, but unfortunately it places the outer part of the edges adjacent to each other, so the border ...
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votes
1answer
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How do I use mark indices with position in tikz?
I am trying to decorate a curve with some arrowheads, there is a way which you could specify the percentage position with steps
% !TEX TS-program = xelatex
\documentclass[UTF8]{article}
\usepackage{...
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How to align affiliations after the author names while using IEEEtran.cls?
The IEEEtran.cls aligns the author names in the following format.
There are only two authors in the paper I'm writing but one of them has multiple affiliations. I want to keep the author names and ...
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How does using \makebox allow arbitrary placement of things on a page?
What is it about using \makebox that makes it disregard text body borders / margins, where other boxes respect the margins / text width and friends?
Allowing images outside of margin
Letting graphics ...
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Text overlapping of glossary
I have the following piece of latex I am having trouble with.
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{glossaries}
\usepackage{acro}
\def\BibTeX{{\rm B\kern-.05em{\sc i\kern-.025em b}\kern-.08em
...
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text wrapover in a tabular in cv template (Michael Decorte's)
In the following, the text wraps over inside a 'body', but not in an 'employer'. Yet, I want to have the text wrap over in 'employer' as well. Any suggestions?
The style I am using is res_yy.sty from ...
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Adding width of text to node coordinate?
I am currently trying to position some text in the center of a square drawn in a tikzpicture, like so:
However, I am having a bit of trouble.
Take the following example:
\documentclass{article}
\...
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How do I get tikzpictures to overlap on the same page?
I have two complex TikZ drawings that need to overlap (appear on the same page). I can't put them into one tikzpicture, because different scale parameters need to be applied to them. Minimal example:
...
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How to move tikzpicture with named nodes?
I am trying to position an image with rounded corners to a specific position on screen. However, according to the following post, yshift and xshift do not affect nodes that are named and I am still a ...
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How to connect to the north anchors of triangular (leaf) nodes in tikz-qtree?
How to make the edges from x (resp. y) to connect to the north anchors of the triangular leaf nodes A and B (resp. C)?
Note that this should not change the edge style between x and y. Therefore, the ...
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node positioning involving shape
This script
\documentclass\[tikz,border=5pt\]{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{shapes.misc}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\node\[draw, align = center,
minimum height = ...
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group tikz shapes
Consider this example:
\documentclass[tikz,border=5pt]{standalone}
\usetikzlibrary{calc}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
% RED ...
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Vertically centering figures that appear alone on pages
I am writing an article using the aa document class.
I include two column figures using the figure* macro.
Sometimes, this results in one or two figures being placed on a page with no other text. ...
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Arranging multiple subfigures beside and above each other
I would like the subfigures of my figure to be arranged like so:
,---, ,---,
| | '---'
| | (b)
| | ,---,
'---' '---'
(a) (c)
I would like the bottom two images to be aligned ...
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Inserting a figure after a numbered element
The following code produces a figure at the top of the page, and a heading 'Example 1.1.2.' just below the figure. How can it be done to place the heading above the figure?
Have also tried with \...
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Draw a graph using graphdrawing and sublayouts, wherein nodes are properly aligned among each other
I have the following code producing a graph with the graphdrawing algorithms of tikz and sublayouts to properly set my nodes.
\RequirePackage{luatex85}
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\...
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How change the position of background and rotate it?
I used 1 to set an image as background. But it is at the bottom of the page.
My question is
how can I change the position of the image and rotate it about 45 degrees?
I want to put it at the center ...
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tikz: positioning of ellipse
please consider the following mwe:
\documentclass[tikz, margin=3mm]{standalone}
\usetikzlibrary{positioning,
shapes}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[
node distance = 3mm ...
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Change the position of text in pgf-umlcd aggregation
I need to change the position of text written on top of aggregation relation in pgf-umlcd. Here is what I've written so far:
\begin{figure}[h]
\centering
\begin{tikzpicture}[show background ...
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Positioning side and top bars with TikZ
I am quite confused about positioning with TikZ. I am trying to create a template that has a top bar in gray as a header only on the first page and a left bar with a width equal to the left margin on ...
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votes
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Make tikz nodes touch bottom to top edge
I have two tikz nodes like this:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{shapes,arrows,positioning}
\usepackage{amsmath,bm,times}
\newcommand{\mx}[1]{\mathbf{\bm{#1}}} % Matrix ...
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Three box side by side - tcolorbox
i want to create 3 box side by side like attachment image.
Please help
My code:
%\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\documentclass[a4paper]{book}
\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb}% pour les maths
\...
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Why and how are t and b options of figure treated differently?
I try not use [h] much for figures (nor for floats in general). On the contrary I try to use [b] and [t], but I've often noticed that the two behave differently. I'm pretty sure it is intended and ...
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The node positions in chain changed unexpectedly
As shown below, the node positions have been changed when using chain. How to fix it?
\documentclass[tikz]{standalone}
\usetikzlibrary{positioning, chains}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[...
