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Tagged with boxes positioning
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The dimensions of a character's box vs what is in the .afm and .tfm files
For definiteness, let's suppose we use pdfLaTeX to compile this:
\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\begin{document}
\thispagestyle{empty}
\setlength{\fboxsep}{0pt}
\setlength{\...
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Positioning two boxes inside a LC circuit in Circuitikz
I am trying to introduce two boxes inside an LC circuit, but I encounter two problems: the first concerns the positioning of these two boxes, I cannot align them perfectly with the node, I cannot find ...
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Ideas to recreate this using latex
I'd like to create a Latex template similar to the one on the picture. Basically it's a set of boxes with different fields plus the big box on the bottom with a graphic.
I've been analysing several ...
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How does using \makebox allow arbitrary placement of things on a page?
What is it about using \makebox that makes it disregard text body borders / margins, where other boxes respect the margins / text width and friends?
Allowing images outside of margin
Letting graphics ...
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How do I get tikzpictures to overlap on the same page?
I have two complex TikZ drawings that need to overlap (appear on the same page). I can't put them into one tikzpicture, because different scale parameters need to be applied to them. Minimal example:
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adaptive alignment
I'm creating .tex file for batch creating visit cards. There is a logo in the top left corner and the baseline for the holder's is above the logo bottom edge. In 90 % of cases, the name and titles ...
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tcolorbox with title on the left side
How can I put the title of a box (with tcolorbox) on the left side (text rotated by 90°), like this?
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| T | Lorem ipsum ...
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par break delayed by \rlap&\smash
I use \rlap and \smash to put a little something into the left margin. Works fine unless at the beginning of a new paragraph. Then the par break happens after, not before my lap&smash construct:
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Underfull vboxes troubleshooting with here figures [duplicate]
How can I avoid vertical underfull boxes in a document which contains a lot of Here figures? My document is pretty big and I ask about general guidelines, so I did not provide a MWE.
I thought ...
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Align the top of a box with the top of a line
For some reason, when I use the cm-unicode fonts, the "modifier letter right half ring" ʾ (U+02BE) appears at baseline height and uses a slightly different symbol to the one I was hoping for. I worry ...
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How to store an mdframe in a savebox?
The title question is the last piece of information I would need, to solve my problem my way. Putting a \sbox or lrbox-environment around a mdenvironment yields a
! Missing \endgroup inserted.
which ...
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vbox of 0 height still adding margin
There is this box that I want to place next to a description list. It should not affect the list itself. I'm using an mbox and within the mbox a vbox with a height of 0. However, it still pushes the ...
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How can I move my fcolorbox underneath a description list label?
I have a description list. In this list, I have the label name, which should have a score underneath (say in a box with a colored background). Then next to it should be the description. So far, I have ...
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What are the ways to position things absolutely on the page?
I know that there is tikz, but also eso-pic and textpos. I'd like to see a list of possible ways (not necessarily packages) for absolute positioning of things (which I believe amounts to "boxes") on ...
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Floats Analogue of framed
I have very little experience with LaTeX. So, pardon my ignorance, but is there a float equivalent of \framebox?
Ideally, I'd like a simple construct for framed text that I can position at the top [t]...
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