Questions tagged [width]
{width} is the measurement of the extent of something from side to side.
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figure* environment of multicolumn documents, full width without margin
Which width, instead of \textwidth (as suggested here), can I use here to avoid getting an "Overfull \hbox" warning? I expect it's the page width minus margins.
\documentclass[twocolumn, draft]{...
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Stata to Latex: Formatting a table - width, wrapping notes and caption position
I'm a newbie to stata and latex when it comes to direct export of tables.
After reading some documentation, I used the following code (after labeling the variables):
eststo: quietly regress defgh ...
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Create table using exact horizontal and vertical cell sizes with intentional cell overlap
I need to create a table where each cell is 1em x 1em. The contents of each cell in the table will be a single glyph from a special Unicode font. Each glyph is 1.1em x 1.1em. There is intentional ...
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Making two figures the same scale and fit on a line
Let's say I have a bunch of images, (two in this MWE)
\begin{figure}[h]
\begin{subfigure}{\linewidth}
\includegraphics[width=.95\linewidth]{whacknot}
\caption{Fritz-Qualdor count of greezable ...
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Multicolumn wider than subcolumn
I'm dealing with an aesthetic issue related to a multicolumn in a table.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\begin{...
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Find the width of a figure in latex, to properbly align multiple minipages within a figure
I want something like this:
made with this MWE:
\documentclass{memoir}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{duckuments}
\newsubfloat{figure}
\begin{...
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exam: How to make the solution box span the whole text width regardless the question level?
I would like to make any solution box span the whole text width for any question/part/subpart/subsubpart.
\documentclass{exam}
\renewcommand{\solutiontitle}{\noindent\textbf{\underline{Answer:}}\par\...
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Pgfplots: Legend with multiple columns and rows, different entry widths
I have two data sets of five curves each that I want to display in one tikzpicture. The five curves of the first data set are solid lines, the five curves of the second data set are dashed.
In the ...
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Width of a \schembox inside schemata
I have this diagram
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{memoir}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc} % Support for more character glyphs
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} %per interpretare tutti i caratteri
\usepackage{...
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tabularx column has extra padding at right?
\documentclass[]{article}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\newcolumntype{h}{>{\hsize=.5\hsize}X} % half width of X
\begin{document}
\begin{table}
\begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{ h | X | X }
\...
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A TikZ image set to the width of the entire paper, without changing the header and footer positions and widths
I'm attempting to fit a TikZ image on a page, and would like to make the image as large as possible, without distorting its dimensions. However, at the same time I would also like to be able to ...
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pgfplots: How to align plot width to same width as legend when compiling external?
The user marmot has posted a nice approach on how to adjust the plot width to the legend width.
Minimum Working Example (MWE):
\documentclass[border=5mm]{standalone}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\...
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A table with `\hline`s in a tikzposter block
I would like to have a table with \hlines fit inside of a tikzposter block, but the lines stretch outside of the block, as shown in the following image:
\documentclass[25pt, a0paper, portrait]{...
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Getting the width of the current container
I'm trying to create a generic command to write a solid heading. The width of the heading should fit into the containing environment in which the heading it rendered.
In the example below, the orange ...
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Is there a way to make the text smaller inside a default font setting?
so I've written one document using the default margin settings and another using different margin settings(much wider). I needed to compile both documents so there's an obvious issue now. Let me show ...
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How to set pgf width dynamically based on template settings
I am using matplotlib and exporting my plots as pfg so I can keep math notation in latex.
I am using elsarticle. Things were working quite well until I switched the template to two columns. In this ...
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How to format table title width and position
I am generating PDF documentation from rst files using sphinx, latex and latexpdf. The rst files include wide tables with long table titles using "csv-table". I would like the table title to print in ...
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change margins for landscape table
I got a large table in landscape format after some text. The text before the table uses the standard margins set by article. Now for the table afterwards, I would like to change the margins, that is ...
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pgfplots: How to align plot width to same width as legend?
The user marmot has posted a nice approach to put a legend below a multigraph diagram.
Minimum Working Example (MWE):
\documentclass[border=5mm]{standalone}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\usetikzlibrary{...
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Reducing width of image captions without messing up subcaptions
The captions in my document are as wide as the text itself and this can lead to parts where the caption seems to continue when in reality it's the document's text. So I wanted to reduce the width of ...
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How do I fit a landscape table to page width?
this is my latex, the columns always see to go over the page width. I know I set width using p instead of l. However, using p, the tables disappears to the next page where it is portrait mode.
\...
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Harmonize width of MusiXTex extracts automatically
Several MusiXTeX extracts are placed in a few floats as subfigures of a document. The width variation of these extracts within a figure environment might not please the eye. The widths do not vary ...
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In inmargin innertheme, how to customize the block title width in the sidebar? [duplicate]
The space indicated by the rectangle below is empty and could be used for the text itself. I realize that I can reduce it by setting lesser sidebar width left, but I would like the titles of block to ...
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How to plot waves representing wireless link connection and set the exact width of a box from one point to another
The following diagram represents two devices connecting wirelessly.
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage[active,tightpage]{preview}
\usetikzlibrary{shapes,arrows.meta,calc,fit,...
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Is there a global variable that reflects the current preferred table column's width?
I wish to insert a (varwidth) box into a table cell, and I want the size of the box to be limited in width to whatever autosize that column would otherwise have, and for any text that I insert into ...
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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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How to fix the column width for specific rows of my table?
I am new to Latex, and I was trying to make a table. Everything was fine, until I added the last merged row for notes. It turned out like this:
The code I used is here below:
\pagebreak
\begin{...
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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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How to get the same effect of the X column without using tabularx?
I'm having a little problems with tabularx package. So I'd like to make tables with a column that occupies all the remaining withe space, as a X column type does.
In the following MWE the last column ...
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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}
\...
