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Left and right aligned on same line
There are a couple things you could try. A simple technique is to use \hfill, such as
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\textbf{\underline{Student:}}
\hfill
\textbf{\underline{Supervisor:}} \\...
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Vertical alignment of side-by-side minipages
The reason is that the [t] means align the minipage with the first (top) baseline. The baseline for the image is under the image, which is perfectly aligned with the first baseline of the text. I see ...
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A never-written char "b" appears in a minipage
The optional argument of minipage can only be c t or b your extra letters such as br are breaking the tests and causing unexpected tokens to be typeset.
The main issue is that (due to memory ...
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votes
! LaTeX Error: Not in outer par mode
Add \usepackage{float} and use the option [H] in the figure.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{float} %figure inside minipage
\begin{document}
\begin{minipage}{0.48\textwidth} ...
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Vertical alignment of side-by-side minipages
You don't really need the minipage around the image
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage[export]{adjustbox}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}
\begin{minipage}[t]{.6\linewidth}...
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Align text in minipage at same height
Just to highlight the jdods user remark in the comments to David Carlisle's solution:
Although the solution given by user David Carlisle is fully functional for various cases, there are some cases ...
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Table and figure side by side with minipages
Table and figure caption can be put in the same floating environment, but there is a big but: LaTeX places figures and tables independently and does not synchronize the numbering of the figure caption ...
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How to use figure inside a minipage?
You could try this for 2 figures side by side:
\begin{figure}[htb]
\begin{minipage}[t]{.45\textwidth}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{example-image-a}
\...
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Putting algorithm in minipage
Your issue is algorithm is a float environment by default, and you can't have floats inside a minipage. However, you can specify the [H] option to suppress floating and have it work as you intend:
\...
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How to make minipage spanning multiple pages
The following attempt uses tcolorbox to create a breakable box to contain the body minipage. The side bar is added as an overlay for the first box part.
This gives the following code:
\documentclass{...
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Help needed to create a relatively complex page for the cover of a textbook
Something like this? Note that the images on the left are not all the same width because the images I used have different proportions. Provided yours have the same height:width ratio, they will match ...
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Using tikzlibrary calligraphy for braces with a minipage
You need to say in \draw[decorate] ...; otherwise it draws an ordinary line ... So, try the following correction of your MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{tikz}
\...
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Align figures to top using minipage environment
You have two ways: one with minipages, one without them.
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[left=2cm,right=2cm,top=1.5cm,bottom=1.5cm]{...
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What, no warning when minipage overflows page?
This is "by design" the vertical size options of minipage and parbox are analogues (and share the code of) the horizontal size option of \makebox.
\makebox[0pt][l]{...}
hides the size of the ...
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vertical alignment of two columns in a beamer frame
Here is a solution via two new commands : \parallelcontent and \parallelitem.
\documentclass{beamer}
\newcommand\parallelcontent[2]{
\begin{columns}[t]
\column{0.48\textwidth} #1
\column{0....
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Adding axes labels to LaTeX figures
A solution with tikzpicture:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usetikzlibrary{positioning}
\begin{document}
\begin{figure}[htb]
\begin{minipage}{0.4\textwidth}
\begin{...
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How to get the height of a minipage to set the height of another one?
Measure the left box and force the right minipage to have the same height.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{subfig}
\newsavebox{\dontpanicbox}
\newlength{\dontpanicht}
\...
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votes
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Put vertical rotated text within minipage environment
Here's a tikz option that might suit. (Updated for US Letter size paper.)
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[landscape,margin=0cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{mathtools}
\usepackage{amssymb,amsthm}
\...
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How to force words that start with an italic uppercase letter "W" to be better aligned agaist left-hand edge of minipage
You asked:
is there a way to fix the visual problem?
Yes: Load the microtype package.
Consider the following minimalist LaTeX document:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{showframe}
%\usepackage{...
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Three 'side to side' figures using minipage
I understand that the three subfigures should be numbered a, b, and "c". This can be done with the help of the subcaption package.
The following is a mock-up of what's possible. Obviously, you'll ...
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minipage with verbatim package doesn't compile
You have to do
\usepackage{verbatim}
\newenvironment{listing}
{\minipage{\linewidth}\verbatim}
{\endverbatim\endminipage}
There's almost the same example on page 3 of the package documentation, see ...
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votes
Help needed to create a relatively complex page for the cover of a textbook
You may also try the textpos-package. It has a good manual, and is easy to learn, even if you learn by trial and error. If you like me is not skilled in Tikz, maybe you find textpos easier to use.
I ...
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Force latex to put a figure and a table in the same page
You can put the picture and the table into a single environment (e.g. \begin{table}) and use the \captionof command to add corresponding captions. Since you say the figure & table should occupy a ...
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Splitting a beamer page into minipages by horizontal and vertical splits, and using "pause" to display minipages one-by-one
Are you looking for a layout like this?
\documentclass{beamer}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}[t]{Title of frame}
\begin{columns}[T,onlytextwidth]
\begin{column}{.4\textwidth}
...
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