Questions tagged [layout]
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Best practice for designing technical forms and reports
I am trying to figure out the best practices for designing forms, especially the engineering and technical forms. I have a lot of inspection reports and engineering forms such as the provided example ...
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Position equation number always on the edge side of the page
Is it possible to switch equation numbers from leqno/reqno depending on whether the page is even or odd? I'd like equation numbers to never appear on the spine side of my twoside memoir document, and ...
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Defining a macro yielding acceptable output to \setlength command
My problem arose in the process of trying to solve a shapepar question/challenge (similar to this ---not fully solved--- one) in the following scenario:
Mimic rather simple page layout of children ...
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Copying a CV template from word [closed]
I’m trying to port this template into word but can’t even get my MWE to compile. I’m a complete newbie to LaTeX so sorry.
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Placing images and environment side by side
I am working on a document using ConTeXt that need to have page layout similar to the picture
The pictures illustrate steps that are provided in the itemized environment.
How could be approach it? I ...
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Is there a way for me to scale a custom environment I made in LaTeX?
I've created the following new environments and I want to be able to scale the output of the big algorithm environment and control the width of the mini algorithm environment (or having two mini ...
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How to correctly calculate document's type area?
Let's assume I want to construct my document according to Van de Graaf's page construction (Wikipedia; aka. Villard's canon of division). The following conditions apply accordingly:
Paper: A4
Font ...
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I want this type of layout design for my document
Can someone help me latex code for this type of layout for A4 Paper? I want to get black margin left on odd page and right on even page. Longing for expert's help. Thanks.
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Automating drawing horizontal lines until the end of the page
I have a page filled with text (arbitrary vertical height) and would like to fill the rest of the page with horizontal lines. So far my solution is to manually adjust how many lines are drawn:
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LaTeX - Complex running header/footer and margins with Tables
This is a duplicated question for the https://stackoverflow.com/q/78571873/6217684, as therein no replies are being received (I realize I posted it in not the right community).
I need to reproduce a ...
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Fill multicol columns with two different texts one in each column [duplicate]
I'm writing down my physics class notes from my notebook to Latex. In the notebook I've used two column format where left there are exercises and solutions and on the right there are notes, facts, ...
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Layouting with tested tikz graphs
I'm using the tree layout with tikz, which generally works very well, but sometimes, when using subgraphs, I end up with edges that are perfectly aligned on top of each other like this:
In my code ...
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Layout and fonts of Berger and Gostiaux book in contemporary (La)TeX
I would like to reproduce the old-style TeX layout of some Springer books from the 80s and 90s, like this one:
As far as I understand, TeX fonts have been replaced in later years (see for instance $\...
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Paragraph numbering in the margin + line numbering (using reledmac)
I would like to have the paragraph number in the right margin (preferably without a full stop after it; and without indentation of the text) At the same time, I would like to have line numbering that ...
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What's the simplest way to auto-layout \node so they do not overlap? [duplicate]
I'm using the latest mactex on macOS, the xelatex part. I'm rendering this tree structure of nodes:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{positioning}
\begin{document}
\begin{...
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