Questions tagged [vertical-spacing]
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What am I doing wrong with vspace
In the MWE below (LuaLaTex), why \vspace*{1pt} causes such a huge vertical space?
\documentclass[12pt, oneside]{book}
\usepackage[showframe, paperwidth=30pc, paperheight=30pc, margin=5pc]{geometry}
\begin{document}
% \vspace*{1pt}
\begin{center}
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How to join characters _vertically_?
I want to show the way to draw certain consonant-consonant combined forms in the devanaagarii script. To illustrate that, I want to vertically combine the letters (c is used as a placeholder) and place a \downarrow such that the assembly look like…
Kedar Mhaswade
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Add text to document without changing formatting or spacing
I am a teacher. When I write an exam, I would like to be able to print the student version of the exam and then print the exam answer key. My students write their answers directly on the exam, so the space I've left them to write their answer will…
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Center Text Vertically, exactly
I tried two of the solutions given on this forum. Neither of them really center the text. I put one below. It's off by quite a bit. I'd like it centered measuring from the textblock(?...the rectangle where the normal text is written) to the…
R. B. Jawad
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How to remove extra whitespaces after paragraphs when adding Arabic text in IEEE template?
I am using \raggedbottom for my document. For some reason, when I add Arabic text between English text, it thinks that there isn't enough space in the end so it moves the text to another page.
I tried the following:
Scoping the paragraph within a…
Blue Cheese
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Too much spacing between text and equations with the twoside option
I am writing a thesis and I have a problem with the spacing between text and equations. In particular, this problem occurs when I use the twoside option in the specification of the document class. I am currently using \documentclass[12 pt, twoside,…
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How to make "\mid" well-lengthened as in this textbook?
I'm reading a textbook containing the following symbol
The \mid is well-lengthened. I tried \,\middle\vert\, but to no avail.
Could you elaborate on how to reproduce…
Analyst
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Error with vspace and normalfont
I use TeXShop on Mac. After updating to the newest version (I've been negligent for a bit) I've been having difficulty with \vspace and \normalfont. In particular, \normalfont does nothing after using \large, and \vspace only skips after the next \\…
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Adding vertical space between theorem numbering line and theorem text
When using \begin{theorem} with amsmath, the theorem text is inserted on the same line. I would like to have the text in a new paragraph
Have thought about using \vspace and use a pre-defined vertical spacing. Have seen that the value of \parskip…
Veak
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Remove unwanted vertical space with tikz overlay
When using tikz to make an overlay picture, one may use for example
\tikz[overlay,remember picture] at (current page.center} {CENTER};
It will print "CENTER" at the center of the page. However the output really depends on where this instruction is…
Jérôme LAURENS
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Why is there an extra vertical space in Example 2
In the following MWE, why is there an extra vertical space in Example 2 ?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[most]{tcolorbox}
\usepackage{showframe}
\usepackage{harmony}
\newtcolorbox{myFrame}
{colback = red, colframe = white, top = 0mm, bottom =…
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Controlling the vertical spacing between two lines
I would like to have the ability to control the vertical separation between #2 and #3. What can I do ? I do not intend that this functionality includes any nested lists or centred environments, that would misalign…
Ragonese
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Deleting vertical space between figures
Please consider this file:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\begin{center}
\begin{tikzpicture}[scale=6]
\draw (0,0)--(1,0)--(1,1)--(0,1)--cycle;
\end{tikzpicture}%
\begin{tikzpicture}[scale=6]
\draw…
José Carlos Santos
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Remove Vertical Space on Page
I am trying to remove blank vertical space on a page.
I tried this solution (Reduce vertical space between text and table and remove table indentation) but it didn't work.
Here is my…
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Ignored \bigskip and extra blank line
In the short tex file below compiled with TeXShop 4.68, you can see that my \bigskip on line 8 is ignored (no vertical space between the title and the text) ; also the last-but-one line in the output is a blank line I didn't ask for in the…
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