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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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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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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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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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 ...
