Questions tagged [vertical-alignment]
{vertical-alignment} is about aligning document elements vertically, e.g. using \raggedbottom or \flushbottom or adjusting the vertical position of several equation or table components. If your question is generally about (vertical) white space, use {spacing} instead.
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How to vertically-center the text of the cells?
I have a simple table as follows:
\begin{table*}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{|l|c|c|c|c|p{2in}|}
...
...
\end{tabular}
\caption{The factors the camera solver depends on to ...
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How to define a figure size so that it consumes the rest of a page?
Sometimes I don't need to have a specific picture size, but for layout reasons I would like to scale the image so that the rest of the page is filled. How can I achieve that?
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Vertical alignment of align* in enumerate
Related (but not the same):
Align number from enumerate with equation
Displaying an equation in a list
Earlier today I asked a question about aligning equations in an enumerate environment and ...
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Understanding minipages - aligning at top
I would like to be able to align two minipage at the top, without worrying about what is in the minipage. I am aware of the optional [t] parameter, but still have some confusion as to how this all ...
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Vertical alignment in table: m-column, row size - problem in last column
Unfortunatly, I have a problem with m-columns (array package) in tables with adjusted row height. Somehow in the last column (only there) the text is not centered vertically.
Check it out:
\...
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How to vertically center text with an image in the same row of a table
I want to create a table with multiple rows of the following form: a cell that contains text and then multiple cells that contain images. The text should be vertically centered and the contents of ...
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Vertical alignment in tabular cells with variable height
I have the code:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[a4paper]{geometry}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{ | X | c | }
\hline
\lipsum[1] &...
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How to get only one vertically centered equation number in align environment with two equations
What I have are two equations with align and I want one single equation number to refer to this system of equations. To illustrate, I have
\begin{align}
dr_t &= \kappa ( \theta - r_t ) dt + \...
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\flushbottom vs \raggedbottom
I use \documentclass{book}.
If I use \flushbottom, I get messages of the sort Underfull \vbox (badness 10000) has occurred while \output is active []. See question.
These messages disappear when I ...
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\pagebreak vs \newpage
What's the difference? I know that \pagebreak can take an optional argument that specifies how much a page break is desired, but is there any difference if the optional argument is not used?
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Vertically asymmetric size variation for parentheses
One of the difficulties I have with writing formulas in LaTeX is that the standard sizing tools for the variable-size operators (parentheses, etc.) do not account for "high" symbols and "low" symbols ...
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How to prevent the paragraphs to spread out over the page? [duplicate]
I have a problem. I have several large equations within the text. And when LaTeX does not manage to put the equation on the same page and moves it to the next one, he spreads the paragraphs of the ...
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Equations inside enumerate aligned on item's number
If I type
\begin{enumerate}
\item
\begin{align*}
eqn 1
eqn 2
\end{align*}
\end{enumerate}
the label will appear on the first lines and the equations will ...
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Increase LaTeX table row height [duplicate]
How does one increase the height of the rows in a LaTeX table?
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Sharing alignment between equations in two different items
In the following minimal example, I have two equations inside an itemize environment, with an item per equations. Each equation is defined in its own equation environment.
\documentclass{article}
\...
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How to split and align equations when they are inside an enumerate environment?
How to make the first line of aligned equations sit in the same baseline as the bullet and make the equation left justified?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\begin{document}
\begin{...
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Positioning content at the top of a beamer slide (by default)
When I create beamer frame, the content is centred in the slide. How do I make the content move to the top of the slide by default?
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Problem with Table Vertical Alignment
I want a table whose first column is aligned top, second column is aligned middle, and third column is aligned bottom; like this:
I wrote the following code:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[...
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Beamer: Vertical alignment of multi-column ToC
In my LaTeX beamer presentation I have a long Table of Contents, which has been split across two columns by using the multicol package. The problem is that I have not found any way to control vertical ...
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Aligning enumerate labels to top of image?
I asked a question a while ago about vertically aligning enumerate labels to the top of table. Now I am having the same problem, but with images. Since my problem was solved in my previous thread, I ...
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Vertical alignment in tabularx X column type
I'd like to create a new column type which works exactly like a X column from tabularx but that also has the text vertically centered. I tried with the newcolumntype command but I can't figure out ...
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What is the difference between 'fil' and 'fill'?
TeX provides the commands \vfil and \vfill (and their corresponding horizontal versions \hfil and \hfill).
These commands are actually defined as:
\vskip 0cm plus 1fil
\vskip 0cm plus 1fill
where '...
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Aligning image and text on top, with minipages
I have an image (on the left) and a block of text (on the right), and I would like both to be aligned on their top. I am trying to use minipages for that:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\...
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How to align picture top left in a table?
is there a way to create a table with 2 columns,
in the left column should be some text,
in the right column should be a picture.
The problem is - to align both to the left, top corner. The image ...
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How can I get text underneath an underbrace?
I am looking to do something of the following:
To get text underneath the underbrace. Is it involving \stackrel or some sort of similar command?
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How do I force TeX to completely use the 1st column?
How do I force TeX to completely use the 1st column before writing to the second column?
Right now I dont have enough content to fill one whole page. So the left and right columns are equally filled, ...
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How to vertically center two images next to each other?
How can I vertically center two images next to one another? Here is some example code:
\begin{minipage}[h]{6in}
\centering
\vspace*{.3in}~\\
\includegraphics[height=1.25in]{fig1.pdf}
\...
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Centering mutirow text in a table whose cells contain several lines of text
I'd appreciate advise in centering a multirow text. In the MWE below the multirow text "spring" is NOT centered over the three rows that it spans.
\documentclass[10pt,a4paper,twoside,open=right,...
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How to vertically center the \vdots in this node?
I'd like the \vdots in this chain to have the same distance to both of the arrows. I know that I could manually shift the node so that it looks right, but there must be a better solution. How?
\...
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Measuring align
From what I read it seems that align environments are processed twice: the first time for measuring, the second time for actual typesetting. My question is whether one can get access to these ...
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Centering a TikZ picture around an area
I often find myself in the following situation: A tikzpicture of mine consists of a main area and some outer material like text labels which are hardly symmetric around the main area. If such a ...
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Vertically center cells of a table?
What is the easiest way to center align each row of table? I have a table column that contains an image and other cells in the same row contain text. I would like to know how to vertically center ...
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beamer: Top-aligning columns within a top-aligned frame
According to section 3.10 of the beamer manual, the t option top-aligns either every frame (when used as a class option) or a single frame (when used as optional argument of a frame environment). ...
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Vertically centered horizontal rule filling the rest of a line?
I'd like to have a horizontal line extending from the end of the text on a line to the right margin. So far I've found \hrulefill and \leaders\hrule\hfill, but these draw a line that's flush with the ...
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Align text in minipage at same height
I need to put some text at the same height in my page, and I'm trying to do it with a minipage, but I'm not able to do it since they get centre-aligned.
This is the LaTeX for the figure I've uploaded:...
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How to balance last page of two-column layout?
I create a document in two-column-layout with LaTeX (and Koma-Script, if that is relevant). The two-column-layout is defined in documentclass. The last page of an chapter fills the left column first - ...
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What is \null and when do we need to use it?
Up to now I don't understand well what \null actually is and when we need it. I have only known that it can be used to create hypothetical anchors as follows.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[...
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Vertical Alignment in multirow using cells with >1 lines
I want to vertically align (best would be to center) the text ("TEST") in the left (yellow) column of the following table. It works fine with multirow when every row has exactly the hight of one line:
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Why does \vspace*{0pt} add vertical space?
I'm trying to format the title of the table of contents using the tocloft package. It inserts code that looks like the following.
\par
\vspace*{\cftbeforetoctitleskip}%
% code to typeset \...
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Vertical text (not in table)
For a book cover, I want to write the title vertically (like in Japanese, but using English text):
T
T I
H T
I I M L
S S Y E
How do I do this without jumping through a ...
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minipage environment with bottom-aligned
I would like to make my figures with bottom-aligned, but the arrows are still in the center. Here is my code:
\begin{figure}[!ht]
\centering
\begin{minipage}[c]{0.2\textwidth}
\includegraphics[...
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Set table position to top [duplicate]
some content
\begin{table}[t]
\begin{tabular}{c c c}
tabular content
\end{tabular}
\end{table}
\chapter{new chapter}
The output is:
First page:
some content
Second page:
table centered vertically
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vertically align different size images in a figure* environment
I have an figure* environment with the following
\begin{figure*}
\centerline {
\subfloat[1]{...}
\subfloat[2]{...}
}
\end{figure*}
The images are different heights. How can I ...
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Bad alignment of Author and Title in Beamer class (Warsaw theme)
I just uninstalled TeX Live 2016 and installed TeX Live 2017 and I noticed that the vertical alignment of author and title in any beamer presentation with Warsaw theme has been disrupted. In this ...
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Shift title and author text up?
What is the best way to shift the title text 'up' in a LaTeX document compiled with pdftex? When I do this:
\documentclass[12pt,letterpaper, onecolumn]{article}
\setlength{\topmargin}{0in}
\title{...
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What does \smash do, and where is it documented?
I see several users in this forum talk about \smash. It is apparently defined in base TeX.
What does \smash do?
For future reference, is there online documentation where I could find this?
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p,m and b columns in tables
I wonder why p columns are aligned at the bottom and b columns aligned at the top?
created with this code:
\begin{tabular}{|p{0.3\linewidth}|m{0.3\linewidth}|b{0.3\linewidth}|}
\hline
\centering ...
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Placing Subfigures vertically
I want to use subfigures to place three figures like this:
The following is the code I used:
\begin{figure}
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|}
\hline
\multirow{2}{*}{
\begin{subfigure}[h]{0.3\textwidth}
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Top-aligned subfigure with bottom-aligned caption
This is a follow-up to an earlier question regarding left-aligning subfigure captions.
Having achieved the left-alignment goal, I would now like the caption of the subfigure to be bottom-aligned, ...
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