Questions tagged [width]
{width} is the measurement of the extent of something from side to side.
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How to stretch a specific column
What I have is a table that should stretch to the text width and want a specific column to stretch. What I have now is
\begin{tabular*}{\textwidth}{ll r@{.}l l r@{.}l r@{.}l}
...
\end{tabular*}
What ...
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TikZ fill color: How to decrease spatial size of fill behind text?
Assumed we have some simple code to display a text node with a colored fill behind the text.
Minimum working example (MWE):
\documentclass[tikz,border=5mm]{standalone}
\begin{document}
\begin{...
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What is the minipage equivalent of `width=\linewidth` for \includegraphics
width=\linewidth is acceptable input option to \includegraphics, but is not acceptable as input to minipage. What can we replace X with so that \begin{minipage}{X} has a similair width setting to \...
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pgfgantt spans width
I would like to draw Gantt chart, where:
is generated by:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pgfgantt}
\begin{document}
\begin{ganttchart}{1}{12}
\gantttitle{2011}{12} \\
\...
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Defining adaptive width of columns in a table
Is there a neat way to define all column widths in a table as the same value and adapted to the page size? For example I would like the following 32 columns to have all equal width of 1/32 of the ...
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size of 6 subfigures
I'd like to enlarge a set of 6 figures. When I increased x in \begin{subfigure}{x\textwidth}, the figures enlarge to the right and they are off the center.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{...
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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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Auto width tcolorbox around equation
I am using tcolorbox to draw boxes around equations. Since the box widths are equal to the equation widths, long titles are often shrunk, hence looking ugly, as shown here:
Is there any way to draw a ...
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my toprule and bottomrule width are different?
I may have change something before at the macro level by accident with some code I got online. How could I set it back?
Now I am facing this problem where when I put:
\setlength\heavyrulewidth{0.14em}...
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LaTeX - how to detect scale of \includegraphics
I have a general question, so without any example code.
I'm implementing part of document containing gallery of images.
Generally, I have two types of images:
1) document, typically scanned A4, ...
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Miktex/XeLaTeX - non-working wrapped images (wrapfigure)
I've searched hundereds forums of the same question, but without any working solution.
I'd like to insert images to my document to the right side of the page and my text shall wrap them from the left....
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Help with drawing the following circuit diagram
I'm just learning how to use circuitikz and I'm trying to draw the following circuit diagram
Here's what I've got so far
\begin{circuitikz}
\draw (0,0) node[ocirc,ground]{$-m$}
to[short] (1,0)
...
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Error Overfull \hbox (6.79999pt too wide) in paragraph
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{book}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{mathtools}
\let\cleardoublepage=\clearpage
\begin{document}
\noindent\fbox{%
\parbox{\...
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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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Header with graphical page number outside the body of the text
I am formatting a book using LuaLaTex.
I need to obtain headers like
and
and I am using the titlesec package.
I need therefore that the page numbers are outside the standard \textwidth.
So far the ...
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Figure position left
This is the code that I use to create a figure:
\begin{figure}[H]
\includegraphics[width=0.9\paperwidth]{img/Info.png}
\caption{Info \label{overflow}}
\end{figure}
The problem is that the ...
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How to fix differents columns width with tabularx?
I want to create a table with 100% width of the page so i'm using the package tabularx.
I need to set the width of the columns, so I decided to separate the table into 20 separate columns. This allows ...
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How to scale multiple elements to maximum width while keeping their relative size fixed?
I have multiple elements in different places of my document. These could be images, TikZ drawings, etc. I want to set the maximum width for each of the elements. Importantly, I also want the elements ...
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table overflow page
I created a table with https://www.tablesgenerator.com/latex_tables
I tried to limit the column width with
|l| p{1cm} |p{2cm} |p{1cm} |p{1cm} |p{2cm} |p{1cm} |p{1cm}|
But it doesn't see to have any ...
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Can I resize a TikZ picture to have certain dimensions (width, height)?
Suppose that I have made aTikZ picture using the standalone class, is there an easy way to determine some fixed output dimension of this picture, say width=16cm, height=12cm? This could be useful in ...
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How to control the width of longtable
That's very strange why the sum of the width of each column does not equal the total width of longtable. I have two tables:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\...
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ConTeXt: How to reduce the width of a \textbackground environment?
Given
A \definetextbackground named blockquote is defined as follows:
\setupwhitespace[big]
\definetextbackground[blockquote][
location=paragraph,
style=italicbold,
backgroundcolor=lightgray,
...
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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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Poster with two columns of different width
Why is this so difficult? Tex, stack-exchange, reddit... none have the information I am seeking. My issue is simple, I need to create a poster with two columns: the first one on the left side, thin ...
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Longtable does not fit in page margins
I'm new to LateX and really struggling to get around the page margins.
So I've been given a default template (I've made a few adjustments to preamble and packages) to write my dissertation by the ...
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Set table width = `\paperwidth` [duplicate]
I have a large table (with many columns), so that I decide to set its width = \paperwidth. I tried the following:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}
\begin{table}[htb]...
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adjusting listing width
I have to include a piece of code in a report and I have an overflow problem because of two things: the comments and the fact that the instruction lines are too wide (which is my main problem).
I ...
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What is the minimum cell's table width?
I'm kind of stuck in the middle of nowhere because I want to make this table (48 columns I know it's huge... but I need this) fit in a4paper but it seems there is a cell's table minimum width, isn't ...
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Expanding longtable to fill page width with shaded rows
I'm working on a document that contains several long tables. For consistency, I'd like all of these tables to be the same width. I'm assuming that the easiest way to accomplish this is to simple ...
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Strange behaviour with textwidth
I was trying to reproduce some tcolorbox– boxes. Now consider the following MWE:
\documentclass[12pt]{book}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\...
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How to reduce colorbox width for text?
Here's the MWE:
\documentclass[a4paper, 12pt]{article}
\renewcommand{\rmdefault}{ptm}
\usepackage[table]{xcolor}
\definecolor{tpgray}{gray}{0.90}
\newcommand{\tp}[1]{\colorbox{tpgray}{#1}}
\begin{...
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Creating a Tikz-Picture with respect to paper width
Till now I just create a desired picture for example with QTikz or Tikz-EDT and pass the code afterwards to my document. To fit the picture to the width of the paper I use \resizebox.
However, if the ...
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Classicthesis/arsclassica ToC section numbers too wide (and incoherent font)
Desired result:
\documentclass{scrbook}
\usepackage{classicthesis}
%\usepackage{arsclassica}
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\setcounter{chapter}{10}
\chapter{Some chapter}
\...
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A width table (landscape) that is able to break across several pages
I have a landscape table with 18 columns and number of rows that are much less with table notes that I try to fit across two landscape pages. I would like to "cut" the columns so that it goes over two ...
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How to create wide breve accent?
I am in need of a 'wide breve' accent in math mode that can stretch a little bit like \widetilde and \widehat do. I have tried both suggestions from Display a breve over several letters, but the first ...
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Tikzpicture match box width and column width
I can't find a way to match the box width of a tikzpicture and the column width.
Here is the code :
\tikzstyle{mybox} = [draw=primary_shade3, fill=white, thick,
rectangle, rounded corners, inner ...
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Table is bigger than page; words do not fit
I have been struggling with making tables for a while now.
I've got a pretty nice layout now, however the table does not fit the page. I looked in tabu documentation (it says \begin{tabu} to <...
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Last column does not have the desired width
I am trying to create a table using tabularx package. I want the first column to have a certain width (38 mm) and all other columns to have the another width (15 mm). But the last column seems to have ...
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How to Center Text in Tabular with Custom Width?
My code :
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{report}
\usepackage{array}
\begin{document}
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{|c|m{10em}|m{3em}|m{3em}|m{3em}|m{3em}|}
\hline
Equation & Linear Form & Y &...
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Tabularx minimum width size and badbox error
I'm trying to reproduce this kind of table
Here is my attempt
\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{toptesi}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[italian]{babel}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{tabularx}...
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Multicolumn overriding table width
I think multicolumn function is overriding my table width. 4th (1.4cm) and 6th (1.8cm) column width is not as configured, it should be 2.3 cm and then table will get connected with page border.
I ...
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Longtable goes over the header in landscape page using \linewidth to set table width
I am trying to make a longtable with the page width in landscape mode. To make it easier to set the column width, I defined a new column type, which is a [p] column but the size is a fraction of \...
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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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Creating individual spaced columns in tables
I'm just getting started with Latex and used several ressouces to create my first document. I'm making progress but I'm struggling with a table.
I have 7 rows, the bottom two are supposed to look ...
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`Overfull \hbox` with pgfplots graph
I'm getting an "Overfull \hbox" error when setting width=\textwidth in axis when using pgfplots.
Here is a MWE. The exact error shown is Overfull \hbox (6.19328pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 22--...
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Reduce deluxetable width (Latex)
I am doing an article in two columns, the table I am doing exceeds the width limit of a column, I would like to reduce the width of the table (keeping the documentclass and deluxetable). You need some ...
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Equal Width monospace text with changing colors in the same line
I'm trying to create something like the following in Latex:
I've tried to \usepackage{color} and put this:
\ssmall\begin{ttfamily}
\begin{center}
\colorbox{yellow}{...
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set tabular/align width within landscape multicols
\documentclass[10pt,landscape,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage[utopia,sfscaled]{mathdesign}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{upgreek}
\usepackage{...
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The authblk package seems to prevent customizing \maketitle width
I am attempting to make a title block on a poster that has authors with references to their affiliations (using authblk) as well as customizing the width of the title block. Changing the width works ...
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Problem with table width [closed]
I have problem with table, it's always have same width.
\begin{center}
\begin{longtabu} to 5cm {|X|X|}
\caption{Информация об элементах структуры проекта ПУД}
\label{tab:04-01}
\\ \hline
Элемент ...
