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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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Why does additional brace group cause \settominwidth to complain about missing }
I'm using the pbox package's \settominwidth command to measure the typeset width of text that includes explicit line breaks (which is a case in which standard LaTeX's settowidth doesn't work).
In the ...
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Beamer: Make logo from headline overlap into frametitle
Goal
I'm trying to create a beamer theme where in the top we have the following layout:
________________________________________
| | |
| Author & Insitute ...
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Create a \savebox in a Group and have it available outside of group
The MWE below creates a \savebox within a group which results in several blank lines:
If I comment out the\begingroup and \endgroup I get the desired results:
My thinking was that adding the \global ...
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Convert a latex command with parameter into a two begin end commands without parameter
I have defined a command
\newcommand{\CV}[1]{\parbox[c]{0.2\textwidth}{\begin{flushleft}#1\end{flushleft}}}
which I obviously have to call like
\CV{My text}
However I rather would like to use ...
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Use \bgroup and \egroup to set some pre and post code to a macro
Why isn’t it possible to use \bgroup and \egroup in this way?
\documentclass{article}
\def\precode{\fbox\bgroup}
\def\postcode{\egroup}
\newcommand{\mymacro}[1]{\precode#1\postcode}
\begin{...
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Beamer: content in box register does not survive \end{frame}
Consider the following example (I edited the example to include LaTeX lrbox environment):
\documentclass{beamer}
\newsavebox\mybox
\newsavebox\myboxb
\begin{document}
\frame{
\sbox\mybox{Hello ...
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Why are box dimension assignments both local and global?
Consider the following code.
\setbox0 \hbox{XXX}
\fbox{\copy0}
{
\setbox0\hbox{ZZZ}
{\wd0 0pt}
\fbox{\copy0}
}
\fbox{\box0}
This produces three ruled boxes. The two XXXs ...
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