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Questions tagged [layout]

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What are the \hbox \hss \hskip commands?

I discovered in a TeX document the following commands : $$ u_n \hbox to 0pt{\hskip 3mm$/$\hss} \longrightarrow 0 $$ I don't uderstand what they do exactly and how exactly how to use them (all i can grasp here is that it allows to put some text on…
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How can I use LaTeX to set text in a format like this?

I'm working on a Latin commentary, and I'm currently just using footnotes for both vocabulary and commentary. I'd love to divide the page as in the below image—in three sections, text on top, vocabulary in the middle, commentary on the bottom. Is…
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Calculate numbers

I want to calculate some numbers, basically for some layout stuff. However, I am stuck a this point because it seems you can not write something like this in latex: \newcommand{\MyNewWidthValueA}{{0.6666 + 0.075}…
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Exact positioning and how easy would it be to recreate this in LaTeX?

I use LaTeX for a lot of my classwork (worksheets, graphics, etc). One thing I have not transitioned is my exam writing. An example page of an exam might look like this. This is just a portion, doesn't have the header and such, I'm comfortable…
J M
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Any tips for interview transcripts & coding interviews in LaTeX?

Currently, I am working on my thesis which I write in LaTeX. Part of the research is qualitative. Now I stumble upon an 'issue'. As you may know, it is required to include an interview transcript in the thesis as reference material. The interviews…
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Title best practises

My school has some really weird ideas on how the title for my seminar work has to look. How would I go on to create such a layout, while maintaining proper LaTeX best practises (i.e. using \title)?
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KOMA scrlttr2 margin notes

some newbie here that started to learn LaTeX. I am currently exploring KOMA scrlttr2. For this I tried recreating the following letter but got some problems while doing so: I cannot work out how to achieve those margin notes like those marked by a…
Dave
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Special text box: align prefix with top and suffix with bottom

I want to create a box of text in the middle of my paragraph with the behavior illustrated below. The text before the box should be aligned with the top of the box and text after the box with the bottom. I tried using parbox but it only allows me to…
MyComputer
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Cornell style layout

I am looking for a way to add text to the left "column" in my notes template. (It isn't actually a separate column in the code - it just looks that way on paper.) Here is an example of what a full set of notes looks like. I've considered using…
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How to create a specific page layout template?

I'm searching for some ideas to create a template whose the page layout would be the same as this one ( http://www.jcbehareditions.com/images/36/extrait_7.pdf): two pages face to face. Any idea of how I could achieve that? This is a mwe written from…
domi
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To-do on Latex document

I am planning on keeping everything i do this year organized in a single latex project and want to have a little to-do list, ideally it would be in the top right corner of the first page and have a slightly tinted backgoud(see image) Is there a…
Marcel Davis
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Vertically arrange three areas of equal height and show sentences in the center of those areas

The context I want to computationally generate 1920x1080 PNG images containing text with different styles. Because LaTeX has rich features for styling text and documents can be compiled using the command line (therefore, it is convenient to create…
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xelatex typesetting offset

Recently, I have been using xelatex to layout my paper. I have to add a lot of extra changes because of the many details required in my school paper. For example, the words on the even-numbered pages (2, 4, 6, ...) are shifted a little to the right…
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How to produce side by side item and description

What I'd like to do is this: Item 1: description description description description description % edge of page description description description description description description description description description…
Mike
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custom page except front and index

I want to format my document so as to fit its contents as I would like, but not keep this format for the front page and the index; as I need large margins for notes & equations but this particular layout make the cover and index look very weird,…
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