Questions tagged [textwidth]
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Tikz/pgfplots Reduce distance between Tick labels line break
I'm pretty desperate with a problem I have right now. I'm trying to create a lollipop plot that has different categories on the y-axis and occurrences on the x-axis. According to the below code. Note ...
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Side-to-Side figures with a sidebar [beamer]
I am doing a Beamer presentation and I am trying to put two figures next to each other using minipage. The problem is that my presentation contains a right sidebar and when I set the minipage width to ...
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How to change the text area of a particular page
I have very long (horizontally) equations on a page in the middle of my document.
I have used
\eject\pdfpagewidth=14in
to change the width of that page, but I can't figure out how to change the ...
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force longtable to text width
Instead of specifying the width of each column in a longtable (see below), is there a way to get it to automatically adjust its size so that it matches the text width, but does not go into the margins?...
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Scale tikzpicture with axis and xbar to the “real” textwidth
So, whenever I create a xbar plot with long labels it happens to me that the tikzpicture is scaled too wide because (I guess) textwidth only applies to the axis but not the labels. So I thought I ...
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Fullwidth solutionorgrid with exam-class
The exam-class provides a convenient environment for typesetting either a specified kind of space for students to solve the question or the solution to that question, based on given class options. My ...
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Make table notes as wide as `\textwidth` while preserving table's own width
I use the threeparttable package to make tables, for the following reasons:
It allows me to conveniently make table notes that may refer to specific text in the table;
The table notes are tightly ...
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Side-by-side subfigures, MATLAB export, textwidth
EDIT: This might be solved with just the knowledge of what size \textwidth in points or centimeters is with this setup.
I have the problem of exporting MATLAB figures to LaTeX and keeping the font ...
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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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align graphic and caption with text width using beside caption
I am trying to align my figure with the \captionbeside within the textwidth. The figure and the caption next to it should be each 0.5\textwidth and should not go beyond the textwidth in the margin.
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Garamond is not wide enough
I'm writing my PhD thesis and I'm considering to use garamond, particulary ebgaramond. The thing is that the book should be written in A4: with a fontsize of 11pt each of my lines has an average of 90 ...
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Two-columns table in tabularx with \textwidth
I have a problem with setting up a table, created in tabularx, to the text width of my article. What can I do?
Here is the dummy example:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{ltablex,booktabs}
\...
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Easy way to line-break specific table cells
I have a table with long text and found a way to get rid of the issue where one has to do line-breaks manually. Here is the code for a very simple version of this layout:
\usepackage{booktabs} % for ...
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improving different textwidths of facing sides with reledpar
Using reledpar to print a modern translation with its facing Latin original results in huge white spaces between the chunks because of Latin's famous compactness and the very long paragraphs of this ...
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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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Making Margins 1 inch all the way around
Hi everyone,
I created an account just to ask this question as it is really important. Several places that I am applying to require my CV to have 1 inch margins all the way around (on all sides).
I'm ...
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Tabularx - Automaticallay shrink row length to longest row
I need to shrink the row length of a table to fit the longest row. Here is what I have done
\begin{table*}
\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{lX}
\toprule
\textbf{Component} & \...
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Why textwidth-1cm works when I use todonotes
Here is a minimal example of my problem. If I remove the todonotes package I get -1cm-1cmtest on the output pdf.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{todonotes}
\begin{document}
\begin{minipage}{\...
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How to make longtable width to textwidth?
I am trying to center a side longtable using \makebox[\textwidth]{ it worked for a normal table.
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{...
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Switch from double to single column in the same page, for insert long equation
When I using overleaf template here, I changed the codes to \documentclass[twocolumn]{svjour3}
I have long equations, so I want to the equation cross the two column. I try change to \onecolumn, and ...
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Set specific width for table colums relative to textwidth
Currently my code looks like this:
\documentclass[12pt, a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[a4paper,top=1.5cm,bottom=1.5cm,left=2cm,right=2cm]{geometry}
\begin{document}
\...
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How to fit wide table on a page
I am building a table in latex but it is too wide to fit the page. Centering will only align it on the left side so that it will spill out on the right side. I already tried to rotate it and to set ...
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Fitting my table into tex width in elsarticle
I am working on a paper to be submitted to Esevier Journal and I have a problem with fitting the table int the text width which exceeds the text width. I'll give the MWE as follows:
\documentclass[...
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How to use fontawesome with fixed width?
I'm using XeLaTeX and fontawesome package.
This is my MWE:
\documentclass[]{article}
\RequirePackage{fontspec}
\RequirePackage{fontawesome}
\begin{document}
\section{\faGraduationCap \...
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How can I display baseline and create text on it?
I use the below structure for it:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{minipage}[t]{.9\textwidth}
\leavevmode\rlap
{I want to stop the hrule, at the end of my text.}
\rule{\textwidth}...
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Can't get tables to align with each other or text width
I'm having trouble getting my tables to display such that the leftmost elements and rightmost elements appear at the start and end of the document text width. Not only does the rightmost text not end ...
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In horizontally aligned minipages, how can I force the last minipage width to extend to the right margin
I need to use minipage environment to give side by side descriptions of equations. The minipages themselves must be separated by equal distance, which is in this case a quad. However, it would not be ...
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wrong title width with subsubsections
After using tabulary to insert multirow table using this
link, the title width of only subsection and subsubsection that comes after the table changed. I tried with titlesec package but it does not ...
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Fit wordy table on a Page
This is what I try to do fit a wordy table on a page.
\documentclass{IEEEtran}% http://www.ctan.org/pkg/ieeetran
\begin{document}
\begin{table}[]
\centering
\caption{My caption}
\label{...
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Latex ignoring \textwidth in p{}-parameter for tabular
I want to create a document that allows to write into the names of new members joining our club.
As these entries are numbered, I figured I made a command generating a command ("entry" in my example) ...
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Latex Table condensed and too small
Apologies I am new to Latex. Trying to create a table but it is coming as condensed. The whole table is about 3Cm tall. I want the table on portrait layout of A4 sheet to be decently readable. Please ...
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TikZ: How to set width of complicated TikZ-image to \textwidth?
I have one a bit complicated TikZ-image:
As you can see, I want to put one single border around this TikZ-image. Due to optical harmony the border should have the exactly same outside dimension like \...
