Questions tagged [rules]
{rules} is about drawing lines (also called rules). Popular packages are {booktabs} (which provides high quality table rules) and {dashrule}.
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How can I make a vertical rule that extends to the edges of an fbox?
Consider the following MWE:
\documentclass{minimal}
\begin{document}
\fbox{some text \vrule{} more text}
\fbox{some text \vrule{} more deep text}
\fbox{some text \vrule{} more $\int$ tall text}
\end{...
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How to stop `hrule` from breaking centering of text inside `center` environment?
For some reason, placing \hrule above center environment makes text in that environment to appear left-aligned. Why?
\documentclass[margin=5mm,varwidth=100mm]{standalone}
\begin{document}
\begin{...
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Cover in latex problem to setting a vertical rule
I am using the example posted by overleaf to create my cover. When I add more items I have the following problems: (1) two pages instead of one cover page and (2) the vertical rule is misaligned.
\...
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Lines (rules) and \multicolumn in tabular content built with token lists
Building on the MWE in my first ever question here (Extra space in cells when using token lists to build tabular content), I would like to add multicolumn content and \toprule (\midrule, \bottomrule, ...
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Best alternative to toprule outside table environment
Here is a repro for my problem:
\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\usepackage[
a4paper,
top=2.5cm,
bottom=2.5cm,
left=2.5cm,
right=2.5cm
]{geometry}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\begin{...
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Drawing horizontal line through center of page
Is it possible to draw a horizontal line through the center of the page (such as with \hrule) regardless of the content of a page.
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Is this way of adding a horizontal line after the frame title stupid?
I use the default beamer theme, where the \defbeamertemplate*{frametitle} has:
\strut\insertframetitle\strut\par%
so I ignore the \par using \ignorepar command in the following code:
\documentclass{...
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custom \midrule length
I just want a simple \midrule that doesn't span the entire page or cell.
For instance, with \rule, you can specify dimensions like:
\rule[0.2cm]{100pt}{0.5pt}
That's as close as I can get it, but ...
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How to get horizontal rules around title and left-aligned author details?
I want to format the title and author section of my report like the authors have done in the image below.
I have tried putting two horizontal rules above and below the title, but, if I do this, the ...
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Place, date, signature in one line
I want to put the place on the left side, the date on the center and the signature on the right side. And above them, a line should come. I am trying this on Sharelatex. I couldn't control the ...
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How do I adjust vertical spacing above \rule line to match that below the line?
I want to know how to adjust vertical spacing above \rule line to match that below the line. I have attempted to solve this problem using the solutions presented for similar questions hrulefill ...
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How to set a line between begin and end?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{latexsym}
\usepackage[linesnumbered,ruled,vlined]{algorithm2e}
\SetCommentSty{mycommfont}
\usepackage[linkbordercolor={0 0 1}]{...
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Change the color of the header line
The answer to the question fancyhdr - Change horizontal line color on top of footer is not completely satisfactory, because it changes the position of the header line,
for example with this example.
\...
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Drawing close together horizontal lines in Latex
How can I draw lines like in the picture in Latex? I tried using two consecutive \rule but they are not as close together as I would like them to be.
This is how I tried:
\noindent\rule{15cm}{0.7pt}
\...
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hrule into tikz circle node
I am struggling with inner node layout with Tikz. Basically, I want to add a line under the first text line inside a node, splitting it unevenly. Here is a try:
\documentclass{standalone}
\...
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How to change the color of the header and footer horizontal lines? [duplicate]
I want to change the color of the lines (i think they are called "rules" in latex) after the heading and before the footer in every page of my report. I used these commands to add them but i couldn't ...
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Modify Floatfoot of Floatrow Package and move Rule
From the floatrow package, I am using the floatfoot command to reference sources and similar content.
This MWE produces an output that is quite acceptable:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{...
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How to increase width of \titlerule in \titleformat?
I want to change the width of the \titlerule under every section, the following is my code, I am using \titling and \titlesec packages in order to achieve that. The documentation said I can do {\...
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Horizontal Rules Before and After Multicols
I am trying to make a document that partially mimics the output of macOS's Calendar.app "List" print format, which looks like this:
The part I am interested in here is connecting the column ...
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votes
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How to add a continuous line at the end of every caption?
I am new to lyx. I would like to know what should i write in the LaTeX preamble of the document to add a continuous line at the end of each caption and another line to separate the foot from the text (...
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Vertical lines connecting in latex tables - agujournal2018 cls
I am using the agujournal2018 cls files (available here). To make it easier while I am drafting, I want lines in tables. How can I make the vertical lines and horizontal lines connect in tables?
I ...
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How to automatically leave lines for translation
I would like to enter a paragraph within a command and, each time it would go onto a new line, leave space and horizontal lines for translation. I can't for the life of me figure out how to do this ...
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Unwanted line break after beginning of solution environment in exam class
Question update: Ulrich's answer (and its iterations) largely achieves the desired behavior:
An answer environment (ans is the answer environment in the new MWE provided below) where the end is ...
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Make a ribbon box with text in it
I'm pretty novice in LaTeX and use overleaf to write.
Is there any way that I could do this kind of box with a arbitrary text in it that is not linked to any title or chapter - just a black box with ...
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TOC: Avoid rule to be showed in TOC
How can I avoid showing the rule in the TOC:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fancyhdr,graphicx,blindtext}
\usepackage{geometry}
\usepackage{showframe,fontawesome}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\geometry{...
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How to draw rule from left text edge to right paper edge without overfull?
I'm currently using the following instruction to draw a horizontal rule from the left edge of the text body to the right edge of the paper:
\rule{\paperwidth}{2pt}
This works, but it results in an ...
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Multiple lines of text with \rule?
I'm editing a tex file which generates a calendar. It works great, and I want to add text to a day on the calendar. The calendar looks like this currently:
Each cell of the calendar is generated ...
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Draw Horizontal line between rows in latex table
i want to draw horizontal lines between rows in the table.
I have tried like this so far,
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|}
\hline
attribute& Art. 16.1.b\&c Aggregated generation per type\\
...
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insert text in rule
I have difficulty writing a compact command that allows me to insert a text between two lines.
I read some links such as this and this, but each one treats the left and right line separately
\...
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glossary in long-booktabs style has no bottomrule in minipage
I want to put a longbooktabs glossary in a minipage environment, but when I do that it curiously loses the bottomrule. Is there anything I can do about that?
As Nicola Talbot commented it suffices to ...
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Mimicking Latex Style
I recently stumbled across the mathematics textbook Numerical Analysis 9th edition by Burden and Faires and I thoroughly enjoyed the style of it. I was able to find a link too here: https://fac.ksu....
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Incomplete side rule in beamer
This only happens with warsaw theme:
\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme{warsaw}
\author{diabonas}
\title{Frame border}
\setbeamertemplate{background canvas}{%
{\color{black}\rule{3pt}{\paperheight}\...
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ConTeXt: Place rules above and below floating figure
I'm experimenting to place a rule above and below a floating figure to achieve the following design. But to no avail.
I've tried to place a \blackrule before and after the \placefigure. But that's ...
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Bottom and and top rule when box break using tcolorbox package
Here I want box breaking with continued text and top and bottom rule when its breaking to next pages. Could you please help in this case. Here I attached the required output image.
\documentclass{...
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hrulefill vertical spacing
I want to reduce the vertical spacing that comes before and after \hrulefill.
I have already tried different options with \hrule, which works fine except for the fact that the line doesn't end where ...
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indenting or centering \hrule
I am trying to print two horizontal lines to look like a divider in an older book. Using \hrule with slightly different widths and lengths makes the lines look hand laid.
But trying to use \moveleft ...
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Span vertical line through page with minipage
I have this code:
\documentclass[11pt, showframe]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[margin=2.5cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\...
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Put horizontal lines above and below tabbing and prohibit page breaks between the lines and the tabbing contents
I wish to put a horizontal line above tabbing and another one below it in such a way that there are no page breaks between the tabbing contents and the two lines.
Here is what I tried so far:
\...
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Tabularx: Reason why customized \hrule exceeds \textwidth?
Any ideas on why my self configured \hrule exceeds the specified \textwidth of my page layout?
Minimum Working Example (MWE):
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xcolor,colortbl}
\usepackage{...
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Align a \hrule with the right side of the page
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{report}
\usepackage{titletoc}
\begin{document}
\hrule width 2cm height 3.5pt\relax
\end{document}
Given a test document such as the above, how does one align the \...
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How to center a line under a figure
I want to put a line to distinguish the graphics from the text in my document. I found a way to add the line but I want it to be at the same length as the caption and not \linewidth.
Although, when I ...
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Adding toprule and bottomrule to the glossary
I figured out how to add the toprule to this glossary, but I failed to do the same for the bottomrule. So, for this MWE, I have two questions:
How can I add a bottomrule at the end of the glossary?
...
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Vertical lines in table
I have the next code, but I want that the vertical line be complete (it's cut off near to horizontal line):
\begin{table} [H] \footnotesize
\sisetup{output-decimal-marker = {,}}
\centering
\caption{...
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How can I remove the gap that's appearing between a graphic and a rule?
I am trying to put together a title page with a graphic taking up the upper portion, and a block of colour immediately below it. The code in question currently looks as follows:
\newgeometry{margin=...
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\hrule length inconsistent
I'm using the tufte-book document class. When I use \hrule, sometimes it extends the text width (which I want), and other times it extends the full page width, apparently randomly.
How can I get it ...
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Insert small line above an item in a list without adding extra space (Continued)
This is a follow up to Insert small line above an item in a list without adding extra space. I would like to control the length of the horizontal line to be the same widths as the widest \item in the ...
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Align left margin note with displaystyle math
For one of the packages I'm making, I want to denote part problems in the left margin. I don't want to use e.g. \reversemarginpar since this is up to the user to define. Exercises are always going to ...
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left rule affected if change courier font to other font
My code are follows:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\defaultfontfeatures{Ligatures=TeX}
\usepackage{unicode-math}%
\setmonofont[Path = ./Fonts/ ,
UprightFont= Iosevka ,]{Iosevka}
\...
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votes
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Redefine \equation for grid typesetting
Please look at the following MWE:
\documentclass[17pt, twocolumn, landscape]{extbook}% \baselineskip=22pt
\newdimen\mathheight
\newdimen\mathdepth
% Redefine \equation for grid typesetting
\...
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Ugly overlines on arXiv (and elsewhere)
I have observed that various horizontal and vertical lines look ugly on arXiv (and elsewhere). This includes \overline, \hrule, fraction line, end-of-proof square, lines drawn by xy-pic but not those ...
