Questions tagged [xcoffins]
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How do I measure my coffin?
I'm experimenting with xcoffins for a cover page (and enjoying myself immensely, BTW, what an ace package).
What I'm trying to to at this moment is fit a logo, some horizontal white space, and a coloured horizontal bar nicely into \textwidth
In my…
Brent.Longborough
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xcoffins behaviour when joining two instances of the same coffin
When I use \JoinCoffin to build a page, and add more than one instance of the same coffin, ongoing references to that coffin appear to behave "sensibly". That is, any reference to the coffin is made to its latest instance.
I realise this usage…
Brent.Longborough
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Is there a simple way to draw a straight line from one coffin handle to another?
I want to know whether there is a simple way to draw a straight line from one coffin handle to another.
Håkon Malmedal
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T pole in the xcoffins package
The documentation for the xcoffins package states:
In addition, coffins containing vertical-mode material also feature poles which reflect the
richer nature of these systems:
B a pole running along the baseline of the material at the bottom of…
Håkon Malmedal
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xcoffins – problem "reusing" poles after joining coffins
at the moment I'm working on a personal project where I want to use several grids and I thought it would be nice trying xcoffins to realise this. I can define a coffin for the text body, define poles for the grid and join ONE additional coffin…
Jensolig
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Basic coffin positioning
Recipient address is shifted to the right in French letters. I'm adding an indication that it will be sent by email ((via ...@...fr)) just below the formal address, and centered. I have somewhat achieved the desired result using two calls to…
Erwann
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xcoffins and fractional factors to \CoffinWidth fail
The following code comes from this SE query: Can I centre my oversized coffin of unknown width?. It was posted by @cfr and accompanied by output, so, presumably, it worked at one…
sgmoye
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rubber lengths in coffins and aligning to the bottom baseline of a paragraph
I want to obtain a certain layout, illustrated below: at some point in a line, I'd like to "switch to paragraph mode" (just like a parbox does) and then at some other point I want to resume back to normal full-width typesetting. In my case, the idea…
Gyom
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xcoffins - main coffin on every page / clearing a coffin?
after Phelype has solved my problem concerning the poles of my grid I tried to make the next step. The grid should be available on every page and should not interact with the "normal" text in the body.
Package everypage works fine, but in the first…
Jensolig
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xcoffins - attaching coffin with - in ExplSyntax
I continued my grid-setting-project with xcoffins and converted the code to latex3.
From an earlier question I learned, that when I first join two coffins the poles are kept as , later on as -.
Attaching the…
Jensolig
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coffin--structuring and typesetting
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\definecolor{darkgrey}{HTML}{333333}
\usepackage{xcoffins}
\begin{document}
\SetHorizontalCoffin\OutputCoffin{}
\SetHorizontalCoffin\RedCoffin
{\color{red!20!white}\rule{0.2 in}{0.2 in}}
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js bibra
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