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}
Which ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Box or rule with rigid sidewalls, not overlap protruding character [closed]
The \mbox and \rule macros have porous sidewalls. That is, if the preceding or following character has negative side bearings, the excess will penetrate into the box. In almost all cases, this is ...
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Problem when using cases environment in pgfplots legend
I noticed that if I use cases from package amsmath in a pgfplots legend, the legend box does not contain the whole text. See the MWE.
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{...
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Unable to use dvisvgm when l3draw drawing contains scoped box
I found a strange issue when experimenting with dvisvgm trying to create SVG files from DVI files.
I found that if I append a box (or a coffin) to a drawing created with the l3draw package and this ...
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Getting "`refsection:1' multiply defined" - which didn't use to happen
Consider the following document:
\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{biblatex}
\newsavebox{\foobox}
\newcommand{\doofoo}[1]{
\ifdefined\donewithfoo
\else
\begin{lrbox}{\foobox}
\begin{...