Questions tagged [boxes]
{boxes} are the units used by (La)TeX to construct a page by pasting them together horizontally or vertically. A single character from a font is a box, as are the lines of type and the eventual page.
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How to horizontally align horizontal boxes in a vertical box?
In vertical mode, horizontal boxes are stacked one on top of the other and aligned to the left. How can I get the boxes to align to the right instead?
\vbox{
\hbox{short line}
\hbox{looooooonger ...
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Expand \hbox to the width of parent \vbox
I have two \hboxes, one above another, inside \vbox:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
Some\vbox{\hbox{longer text above}\hbox{shorter text}}and some more text.
\end{document}
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LyX hyperref boxes wrong placement
I started using LyX a while ago and soon I got this strange problem. The hyperref boxes doesn't cover the actual title in the table of contents.
I only used LyX's PDF properties -> Use hyperref ...
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How to group elements in order to use them like one character
I want to create commands that will show some data and will be used as a single character in different places (paragraphs, tables etc.).
Here is an example of how it should be looking:
I achieved it ...
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Marginnote and vertical alignment of boxes
After solving the problem I had with the vertical alignment of the margin notes (https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/721419/13180), I am facing a similar problem. I can't control the vertical position of ...
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Aligning a page reference to the bottom of a centered table
I have a page reference to a source text that I'd like to align to the bottom of a centered table. Here is an illustration what I currently have:
Note that the page reference ("[p. 74]") ...
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Function and usage of \leavevmode
I am beginner of LaTeX. From many examples I found, I notice that it's very common to use command \leavevmode. I can't find any information about this command. Could anyone tell me what's the function ...
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Box taking exactly N \baselineskip
I'm trying to define a memoir's \fancybreak taking a vertical space of, say, 2\baselineskip (or any other exact amount of \baselineskip).
But I have a problem with the height: if I do
\documentclass[...
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How to add colors in boxes and arrows?
My code is complete, I just want the image to be more pretty by adding colors in boxes and arrows.
here's the code:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{shapes....
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How to put a text inside a box within a boxed environment?
I have the following LaTeX code, which makes use of a boxed environment. I want to put some of the text within a dashed and normal box, but it throws an error. Any ideas how to achieve this?
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dashed border for beamercolorbox
Is it possible to draw a beamercolorbox with a dashed border? I cannot find in the Beamer documentation the possibility of such kind of decoration.
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Delimit beginning/end of a text section (not being in a box) using visual objects, glued to text at page break
Context
I'm creating a LaTeX class for popular mathematic articles in which images play a central role. As a result, the following requirements have been set for:
the online versions of articles (...
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How can I have a verbatim text in specific sized box?
I am trying to typset the following
\resizebox{0.95\textwidth}{!}{%
\begin{verbatim}
require( "lattice" )
require( "grid" )
\end{verbatim}
}
I have a lot more to add to this box, and it needs ...
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What does the phrase "Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph" actually mean?
What does the actual phrase above mean?
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colorbox: how to fill only the inner area of a rectangle (square) with rounded corners
If I have a letter of type "(vertical) rectangle with rounded corners" and put it in a \colorbox{<fillcolor>}{text}, is there a way to set the colorbox-parameters so that exactly the ...
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