Questions tagged [white-space]
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vskip and unskip after section heading
I've defined a macro that puts images and text in a table and puts some whitespace around it like that:
\newcommand{\iec}[3]{%
\unskip
\vskip 0.5cm
\begin{tabular}{cl}
\adjustimage{width=1.5cm,valign=...
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Multiple Vertical alignment on two rows
I making a presentation using beamer. My question is simple. How can I align 2 rows in 2 different part ?
I have in the 1° slide this:
Advisor: Prof. Latex Tex
Co. Advisor: Prof. Tex Latex
And this ...
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Tight square of subfigures
I'm trying to create a tightly knit group of 4 subfigures, in a simple square configuration. I'm able to do this but I would like to remove the whitespace.
I'm not sure about the linewidth numbers. ...
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When are \space tokens discarded?
Consider this example:
\obeyspaces
b
\bye
The output is b.
Why is the \space discarded?
It is not discarded during pre-processing because it has catcode 13 - it is discarded during tokenization, ...
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large Spaces in documents [closed]
please I'm new in latex. I have a problem with my paper which is the existing of a lot of white spaces between paragraphs, table and its comments and so on. I don't know how to fix it. I tried to use ...
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Unwanted space in text where float is positioned in the code
I am new to Latex, so I hope I am using the correct vocabulary to describe my problem. I couldn't find an answer to it.
When I am including a figure in the code, it is displayed at a different ...
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Reduce horizontal whitespace in aligned equation
I am using the following code to create an aligned equation:
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage{Z_costumpreamble}
\begin{document}
\begin{align} % equation 3
Y\textsubscript{i,P}...
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How to get rid of huge random whitespace in the middle of the paragraph?
\documentclass[12pt]{report}
\usepackage{graphicx, longtable}
\graphicspath{{images/}}
\usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry}
\usepackage[table,xcdraw]{xcolor}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{varwidth}
\...
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Removing extra vertical space before chapter heading
I'm trying to remove some extraneous extra space that appears before chapter headings in the book class. I've used titlesec to set the space-above to 0pt, but there is still about one line's worth of ...
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1answer
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Swallow space before command
Is there a way to swallow one space (or more spaces) before a command?
E.g.:
xxx \mycommand{}yyy
which results in
xxxyyy
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Print final spaces of an argument
I would like to print spaces that are at the end of an argument.
Here is my M(not)WE.
\documentclass{article}
\newcommand\printspaceinarg[1]{%
]\texttt{#1}[%
}
\setlength\parindent{0em}
\begin{...
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How to print spaces and tabs as spaces and tabs in 'lstlisting's?
Consider the following:
\begin{lstlisting}
int main(void)
{
printf("hello world");
return 0;
}
\end{lstlisting}
[Note: the text is not actually rendered blue, I just tried to select it ...
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1answer
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tagging package and subfigures: faulty vertical alignment
I'm using the great tagged package to compile my document using graphics of different qualities and/or file formats. The MWE
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{subcaption}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\...
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Reduce whitespace after \ref
I have the following latex file:
\documentclass[AMA,STIX1COL]{WileyNJD-v2}
\usepackage{moreverb}
\usepackage{algpseudocode}
\usepackage{algorithm}
\usepackage{tabu}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{...
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Remove leading whitespace from expansion of command
I'm working with a program that converts markup to LaTeX documents; customization of the output is limited to defining commands to insert in the preamble. A certain markup construct gets converted to ...
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2answers
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Skip space after optional argument
I have a command where the first argument is optional:
\documentclass{minimal}
\newcommand{\z}[2][]{\texttt{\underline{#1} #2}}
\begin{document} \noindent
\z[First]{Second}\\
\z{Only}
\end{...
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White space before the landscape table
I have big table and I want it to be placed on whole page horizontally. I used \landscape but the problem is generating half page of white space before the table and the remaining of the text comes ...
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1answer
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Get rid of extra horizontal space between words in bibliography
There is additional horizontal whitespace between words in my bibliography entries. I assume latex does this to align line breaks. But this whitespace is too large. I want to remove the extra ...
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1answer
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Fitting a table in 2 column paper format
I am having a hard time trying to fit a table in my 2 column latex paper.
\documentclass[nocrop]{bioinfo}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{dsfont}
\usepackage{natbib}
\...
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trouble matching %s in LuaTeX argument containing LaTeX command
I hope I can communicate this clearly. I've been trying to pass an argument to a Lua function that contains LaTeX commands. Normally this works fine, but if Lua tries to match/sub %s within this ...
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How can I make two adjacent images have NO whitespace?
This is sort a follow-up to my question How can I make a series of images (with some text) flow with minimal whitespace?. There are a couple differences from that question that hopefully simplify ...
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Blank space left about litemized list. How to remove this vertical space?
I am trying to remove vertical space inserted when I start a itemized list inside a table using the \tabular command:
\begin{tabular}{@{} p{0.18\textwidth}|p{0.82\textwidth}}
\raggedright \textbf{...
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\somepenalty=10000 vs. \somepenalty 10000 vs. \somepenalty10000
Replacing the equality symbol with a space below or omitting the symbol at all
\documentclass{article}
\pagestyle{empty}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\interlinepenalty=10000
% or \...
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Whitespace lost with fixme PDF margin notes (pdfcmargin)
When using the fixme package with pdfmargin layout a whitespace is lost.
This minimal example
\pdfoutput=1
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fixme}
\fxsetup{draft,layout=pdfmargin}
\begin{document}...
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1answer
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Wrap item with vertical margin
I have some cases where I will have an item in between two paragraphs. For
example:
Alfa bravo:
\includegraphics{a.jpg}
charlie delta:
\begin{verbatim}
echo foxtrot
\end{verbatim}
golf hotel
the ...
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Spurious space using \path (wihout draw options) [duplicate]
I'm trying to extract coordinates from a named coordinate, then to use it for an additional drawings in the next code
\documentclass[tikz, border=0.5]{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{...
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Large amount of whitespace between figure and text. Using vspace doesn't work
I have the following figure:
\begin{figure}[t!]
\centering
\includegraphics[width = \columnwidth]{figures/fig.pdf}
\caption{Caption}
\label{fig:pipeline}
\end{figure}
There is a ...
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weird space between url and https, using \bibliography (bibtex)
currently, I'm preparing my references using \bibliography{mybibfile} and at the beginning, the URL was too long in my references.
So, I found that I should use:
\usepackage[hyphens]{url}
\...
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Phantom does not work without protected keyword in xdef [duplicate]
I'm trying to align labels, but it seems that space has a different width then digits are.
\documentclass[tikz, border=0.5]{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\makeatletter
\newcommand*\bigcdot{\...
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When using description/item, long item names add and extra empty line
When using description/item, long item names add and extra space.
I would like to know if there is a way to remove the extra empty lines that appear after items named "This item name is longer than ...
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A valid alternative(s) to siunitx package [duplicate]
Although this question is very simple in the substance, I would like to ask it anyway. Visibly if I use the comma within the mathematical environment you can see a small space that I have underlined ...
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1answer
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Undesirable empty spaces between rows while using longtable
I am using longtable which consist of 4 columns & 7 rows of reasonably consist of long sentences. The problem is that when one row was typeset it leaves more space on that page & prints the ...
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Reduce Space Between Graphs in LaTeX Multicolumn and Only Post One Group of Images at Top of Each Page
So i'm creating an academic paper using usenix format - https://www.usenix.org/conferences/author-resources/paper-templates, with 2 columns and i would like these 2 lines of graphs to be at the top ...
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Increase the vertical space in a fraction
I intend to create a vertical space between the number 39 and the horizontal bar of the fraction, so as not to get crowded. How can I create the vertical space?
\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{book}
\...
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How to remove the whitespace for this section in YAAC resume?
I am building up my CV in Latex using this cv format YAAC: Another Awesome CV. But the projects section in metadata class is creating whitespace and that makes my cv very weird. I have tried \...
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How to measure “whitespace” surrounding \textbullet?
There is a space on both sides of \textbullet as well as below it, and the space is actually part of the bullet itself. Does anyone have any idea how to measure it? I want to get rid of it by using ...
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1answer
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How to remove white space after table and before new section?
Kindly please help me soon, I must submit my paper as soon as possible and still there is a problem and white space and though I used htp for table, my table come between the text! also, I've searched ...
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How to add white space to variables? [closed]
I use variables in math mode with subscripts before and after the variable name itself, like
{}_{B}\vec{a}_{GP}^{}
In case I have equations where these are multiplied, one cannot tell which ...
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Whitespace characters
I am defining a command that uses an subscript somewhere. I want the subscript to dissappear when I leave its corresponding command-input open, but then LaTeX will trow an error since no character was ...
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how to break line \mychapter on page but not in toc
how to line break this \mychapter?
if i use \chapter i can break line using \chapter[line 1 line 2]{line 1 \\ line 2}
\documentclass{report}
\newcommand{\mychapter}[2]{
\setcounter{chapter}{#1}
...
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1answer
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adding space upper and down Image
I have more sequences of the image with the text between there, from this post I resolve the problem of the withe space but now I have too a little space from the image.
I want to add the space upper ...
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Removing white space in LyX from table
I am using LyX and am trying to fit a table in the an A4 size.
I have managed to get the table in landscape however I am not sure how I can make it in the centre.
I already have tried using the ...
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Unwanted white space on left side of Tikz Picture
I am trying to recreate this:
This is what I have so far:
You might not be able to tell from this image, but there is some white space to the left of the picture, and I'm not sure why. I was ...
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How to add a non-breaking space after “ed. by” in BibLaTeX?
I tried this:
\DefineBibliographyStrings{english}{%
byeditor={ed.~by\penalty10000},
}
but it didn't work. Any other ideas?
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TikZ Overlay: Inject content at the start of the next paragraph?
Problem Statement
I'd like to conditionally add a TikZ overlay at the start of some paragraphs or figures.
In this example (see code below), I'd like to conditionally insert red boxes around the ...
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Latex only letting me put 3 subsection per page, then the numbering starts pilling up unless I add a new page
I´m trying to make some specifications fit on one page, but the \subsection{} command keeps messing things up unless I create a \newpage. I'm using overleaf.
When I do this:
\documentclass[11pt, ...
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Remove blank page at the beginning of document
*Edited from original post to provide minimal working example as otherwise the question is useless as pointed out in the comments.
I'm trying to create a simple A4 page document with a figure (a tikz ...
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Shift children and subtrees horizontally in forest
I am trying to draw a tree diagram with forest package. In order to have the diagram fitting within the page margins, I moved down the subtree of NastranBulkData object, as you can see from the image. ...
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Why does this scientific journal's LaTeX article template compile correctly on Ubuntu, but not on Windows?
I downloaded the "LaTeX article template" from this page: https://www.rsc.org/journals-books-databases/journal-authors-reviewers/author-tools-services/
I use Ubuntu, but am collaborating with someone ...
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Change the size of spaces between words in TikZ environment
I tried to change size of spaces between all words (inter word spacing) in a TikZ node but it seems not working. Anyone knows another approach that could work?
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\...
