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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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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Longtable - Custom column width and no white spaces between lines
I used an updated version of the code by Mico (https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/271559/146754) to create a long table.
1) How can I remove the white spaces between the black lines
2) How can I assign ...
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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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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 ...
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How to change a thickness of a hrule?
I am searched for changing a thickness of a \hrule in my report document ? any idea?
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Only one Horizontal line below the Caption of Algorithm in latex
I want only one Horizontal line below the caption in latex algorithm but in my case it gives line below and above the caption as shown. How can I get the desired output ?
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper, ...
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Same space between top and bottom rule minitoc
I want to have the exact same space between the top and bottom rule of minitoc.
I know I can use :
\mtcsetfeature{minitoc}{after}{\vspace{-10pt}}
\mtcsetfeature{minitoc}{before}{\vspace{-10pt}}
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what is the correct value to move horizontal rule and join it with vertical rule between minipage?
I am redoing the logos (in word) used by my school, I have managed to align the images and the text, but, I can not find the correct value to move the horizontal rule and join it with the vertical ...
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Change colors of the rules in minitoc
I'm deseperatly trying to change the colors of the rules in minitoc.
I tried differents things :
Try 1 : Change all hrule colors with
\makeatletter
\let\old@rule\@rule
\def\@rule[#1]#2#3{\...
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How to break a \rule over lines?
Is there an easy way to break a rule over multiple lines? I.e. for it to continue flowing just as text would, and not continuing straight through the page border?
Specifically, I'm trying to typeset ...
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Writing the rule of three in math mode
When trying to get a nice rule of three in beamer documentclass, using align, I get:
Now, I know numbered equations can be avoid with align* environment.
Question
Is it possible write a small rule ...
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How can I make a “vertical dotfill” environment?
Wanting to highlight parts of my text, intended to be read at second reading, by an inexpensive method in packages, I want to set up an environment that would put points at the beginning and end of ...
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Temporary vertical rule for equations' alignment purpose
How can I obtain a vertical rule like the red one in the figure?
Here's the LaTeX code (without the rule):
\begin{align}\label{62}
\begin{split}
\delta_{\chi} \theta_{A} & = \mathcal{...
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Adding Vertical line next to example environment
How would i go about adding a vertical line next to my example environment like in this post: Example environment?. The reason I have not just copied the environment from that post is that, it isn't ...
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Custom shaped horizontal rule spanning the entire document
I learned how to create a simple horizontal rule by reading the question: Horizontal line spanning the entire document in LaTeX
I would like to create a chirp-shaped horizontal rule spanning the ...
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Remove top rule of `ruled` algorithm2e
I'd like to use similar styles for pseudocode/algorithms and listings using the algorithm2e package. Therefore I need a line above and below the algorithm but not above the caption. Haven't found any ...
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vrule align with top of the text using multicols
My MWE is:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{showframe}
\usepackage{lipsum,multicol}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setlength{\columnseprule}{2pt}
%\setlength{\multicolsep}{-10pt}
\begin{document}
\lipsum[1]
\...
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Error with \hline and similar commands
I am a beginner of LaTex. TeXstudio informs me about this error: "I expect to see \noalign only after the \cr of an alignment. Proceed, and I'll ignore this case."
My text is
\documentclass{book}
\...
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Adding left and top border to a section heading
I would like to have a top and a side border around my section heading like this
I'm using titlesec \titleformat to define my sections.
So far I've been able to add a top rule by putting a \...
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Create a section rule that is the same width as the section title
I would like to create something that looks like this:
Now, I have seen a solution that works with the asker's example environment (using \predisplaysize). However, my desired solution is a little ...
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Problem drawing horizontal line above two columns, line runs through column
I'm somewhat of a beginner in LateX. I want to draw a horizontal line below my abstract to clearly separate it from the rest of the two-column text. When I do so however, the left column starts below ...
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Horizontal line in tabbing environment
I have a tabbing environment and I want next to some text lines a horizontal line up to the end of the page. \hrulefill won't work because of the tabbing. The \noindent\rule{x}{y} will put a line, but ...
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I need to draw a dotted line to divide a page, ignoring the margin
I can draw a rule across the entire pagewidth with the following command:
\noindent\makebox[\linewidth]{\rule{\paperwidth}{1pt}}
but I can't draw a dotted line. Any ideas? I need the line to divide ...
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Vertical line between aside and main text friggeri cv
For the Friggeri cv, has anyone had any luck to try and draw a vertical line between the aside bar and the main text?
I tried using \rule and tikzpicture but to no avail.
Tl;DR:
I want a vertical ...
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How to make “rule with hooks”
I guess this is a very basic question but I didn't find anything. Also didn't know what to search for, sry for the stupid title.
How can I make a "rule with hooks", be it horizontal or vertical, with ...
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How to change hline thickness in tabular?
I am just trying to get the table to look like the picture in the LaTeX Wiki book:
In this example shown, the very top and bottom \hline are thicker and darker than the ones in the middle of the ...
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Center text between double horizontal rules
I'd like to do something like this:
==================== Text ====================
Where '===' represents two horizontal lines separated by 2pt. In other words, I'd like to center some text ...
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Typeset a piecewise matrix?
I need to typeset the following:
But I cannot seem to get the dotted line or the centered r_{i, j}. Can anyone show a minimal working example?
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Horizontal line between text blocks that's omitted at pagebreak
I'm trying to define a command that adds a horizontal line after text blocks, but I'm struggling to find a way to omit the line at pagebreak – the text blocks should be separated by either the ...
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Breakable vertical rules like tcolorbox without TikZ
I'm looking for a way to have double vertical lines along the left side of
a paragraph.
It can be done by framed package,
but I don't like its spacing (see picture.)
The aim is that tcolorbox produces,...
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Change the length of footnote line?
I want to change the length of footnote line in different pages of a chapter. For example I want the length of footnote line is "4 in" in page 1 and it is "6 in" in page 2.
I used the following codes ...
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How can I change the length of footnote line? [duplicate]
I need to change the length of the horizontal line that separates text body from footnotes. I want length of footnote line is as much as width of footnote text.
I can the following codes:
\def\...
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How to get free horizontal space width left in box
I have a box 6cm width, and I want to put there a label followed with underlined area which should fill all horizontal space left. How to make it properly?
\makebox[6cm]{
Label: \underline{
\...
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\rule or \hrule extending into innerrightmargin of mdframed box
I have an mdframed box with a large innerrightmargin (which, in the place I use this, will contain various \marginpar entries, and I need this functionality to remain).
I'd like to have a rule that ...
