In a IEEEtran latex template, I am trying to put a figure spanning full width of the page.
I am doing,
\begin{figure*}[h]
\centering
\setlength\fboxsep{0pt}
\setlength\fboxrule{0.25pt}
\fbox{\includegraphics[width=6.2in]{Figure7}}
\caption{Figure}
\label{f7}
\end{figure*}
This places the image on a new page at the end of the article. How do I place it where it should be?
Thanks
For starters I might try to put the figure* block further up in the document, just to check that LaTeX isn't placing it there for a logical reason.
If that doesn't work, I would remove all extraneous commands in the figure* block to be sure they aren't causing problems.
Finally I might try using a figure that doesn't need resizing, or use [width=0.9\linewidth] just to check; sometimes figures that are "too big" can get bumped to the end of the document.
Edit: You may also try using (temporarily) a different template. For example I know that revtex4-1 has a figure* environment that behaves the way to want, to check if ieeetran is the problem or perhaps if that is part of their style.
the problem is the [h].
get rid of that, it'll work.
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I have a problem with my biblatex. My booktitles don't automaticly break lines in my bibliography. Has someone got a hint how to solve this? Is it possible to get an automatic break or do I have to set them manually? And if I so, how do I do that?
Here my biblatex code snippets:
\usepackage[backend=biber,style=authoryear,sorting=nyt,citestyle=authoryear]{biblatex}
\printbibliography[type=book,title={Books}]
See this example at IEEE: after Metrics is a linebreak is missing.
EDIT: I found the solution here
I was curious about the \emph{} style (mine was always underlining). I put a single \normalem in front of the \printbibliography command and it works fine :)
\normalem
\printbibliography[type=book,title={Books}]
Your book titles are underlined, which is preventing line breaks (underlined text doesn't break). I don't think this is a standard behavior, book titles are usually displayed in italics. Perhaps you are using \underline{} inside your bibliography items definitions?
Got some good advice on suppressing code and other items on NBConvert output,, Here Suppress code in NBConvert? IPython
BUT: now It seems I need to change top and bottom margins And I can see that it seems that it may be set in the sphnix template, (if I even know where it is), which I don't want to mess with but I cannot figure out how to edit the Latex output to get at the margins I attempted to place this in the import headers
\usepackage[margin=0.5in]{geometry}
But nothing happened.. I know squat about latex I am using the TexStudio package to modify the Latex output of NB convert, but at this point I don't see something to modify for margins...
I'm trying to touch up some page flow issues involving placement of output graphs that are just too big so I end up with big ugly blank spots,, pretty sure that if I can get at the margins I can...
To change the margins using your proposed code, you have to put this line after the other inputs, e.g. about line 71. If you put it at the top, it will be overridden by another call. With my notebook this works fine.
I'm pretty sure you know you can specify different margins using
\usepackage[left=0.5in, right=0.5in, top=0.5in, bottom=0.5in]{geometry}
see e.g. wikibooks.
Btw. be aware that the sphinx based templates are removed in current master. The new templates are much more customizable and remove some issues due to the mdframed packages (GitHub Issue)
I would like to know how I can hide a section from the table of contents but without loosing the section number in the body of the document. For example, in this tex file I loose the number for hide, and all the sequences are damaged:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\section{uno}
\section{dos}
\section*{hide}
\section{tres}
\end{document}
I think you are looking for
\section*{hide}
\addtocounter{section}{1}
or make it into a command:
\newcommand{\toclesssection}[1]{\section*{#1}\addtocounter{section}{1}}
EDIT:
Okay, I think I understand what is wanted now (and it makes more sense then the answer I gave). Here is a command that you can use to suppress adding a section, subsection, etc. to the TOC. The idea is to temporarily disable \addcontentsline.
\newcommand{\nocontentsline}[3]{}
\newcommand{\tocless}[2]{\bgroup\let\addcontentsline=\nocontentsline#1{#2}\egroup}
...
\tocless\section{hide}
\tocless\subsection{subhide}
Just wanted to say thanks for Ivans great hint!
(I was just googling for something similar for my customized (Sub)Appendix{} commands:
\newcommand{\nocontentsline}[3]{}
\newcommand{\tocless}[2]{\bgroup\let\addcontentsline=\nocontentsline#1{#2}\egroup}
\newcommand{\Appendix}[1]{
\refstepcounter{section}
\section*{Appendix \thesection:\hspace*{1.5ex} #1}
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Appendix \thesection}
}
\newcommand{\SubAppendix}[1]{\tocless\subsection{#1}}
Maybe this is useful for someone else, too...)
have just come here from a similar question. The answer above didn't quite work as it gave some formatting issues, but a similar solution seemed to do the trick
I'm trying to turn off marginpar when starting a new multicols environment with this:
\renewenvironment{multicols}[1]{%
\let\oldmarginparwidth\marginparwidth
\setlength{\marginparwidth}{0}%
\begin{multicols}{#1}
}{%
\end{multicols}%
\setlength{\marginparwidth}{\oldmarginparwidth}%
}
However, it doesn't work. What am I missing?
The command you've got there won't work mid-page, you need to use the changepage package to do that.
\usepackage{changepage}
I take it you're trying to take up the full width of the page. I nicked this from the tufte-latex class:
First, define an 'overhang' amount that'll be added to the textwidth at the beginning and subtracted at the end:
\newlength{\overhang}
\setlength{\overhang}{\marginparwidth}
\addtolength{\overhang}{\marginparsep}
Then use \adjustwidth with the overhang amount when you want to remove marginpar space:
\begin{adjustwidth}{}{-\overhang}
% This will be displayed full-width
\end{adjustwidth}{}{-\overhang}
As Damien pointed out, you can still use marginpars like this, they'll just exceed the pagewidth. \multicols will prevent you from using floats, however.
Hope that's what you need!
I'm not sure exactly what you're looking for here, but generally marginpars aren't allowed in multicols already. From the multicol documentation:
...floats and marginpars are not allowed in the current implementation [This is dictated by lack of time. To implement floats one has to reimplement the whole LATEX output routine.].
I have managed to get it working by using the chngpage package and defining a new environment which sets/resets different values before/after that environment.
However, I still have a problem on the last page of each \chapter: header width on the last page of the chapter
I need a way to add text comments in "Word style" to a Latex document. I don't mean to comment the source code of the document. What I want is a way to add corrections, suggestions, etc. to the document, so that they don't interrupt the text flow, but that would still make it easy for everyone to know, which part of the sentence they are related to. They should also "disappear" when compiling the document for printing.
At first, I thought about writing a new command, that would just forward the input to \marginpar{}, and when compiling for printing would just make the definition empty. The problem is you have no guarantee where the comments will appear and you will not be able to distinguish them from the other marginpars.
Any idea?
todonotes is another package that makes nice looking callouts. You can see a number of examples in the documentation.
Since LaTeX is a text format, if you want to show someone the differences in a way that they can use them (and cherry pick from them) use the standard diff tool (e.g., diff -u orig.tex new.tex > docdiffs). This is the best way to annotate something like LaTeX documents, and can be easily used by anyone involved in the production of a document from LaTeX sources. You can then use standard LaTeX comments in your patch to explain the changes, and they can be very easily integrated. If the document lives in a version control system of some sort, just use the VCS to generate a patch file that can be reviewed.
I have used changes.sty, which gives basic change colouring:
\added{new text}
\deleted{old text}
\replaced{new text}{old text}
All of these take an optional parameter with the initials of the author who did this change. This results in different colours used, and these initials are displayed superscripted after the changed text.
\replaced[MI]{new text}{old text}
You can hide the change marks by giving the option final to the changes package.
This is very basic, and comments are not supported, but it might help.
My little home-rolled "fixme" tool uses \marginpar where possible and goes inline in places (like captions) where that is hard to arrange. This works out because I don't often use margin paragraphs for other things. This does mean you can't finalize the layout until everything is fixed, but I don't feel much pain from that...
Other than that I heartily agree with Michael about using standard tools and version control.
See also:
Tips for collaboratively editing a LaTeX document (which addresses you main question...)
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/193298/best-practices-in-latex
and a self-plug:
How do I get Emacs to fill sentences, but not paragraphs?
You could also try the trackchanges package.
You can use the changebar package to highlight areas of text that have been affected.
If you don't want to do the markup manually (which can be tedious and interrupt the flow of editing) the neat latexdiff utility will take a diff of your document and produce a version of it with markup added to visually display the changes between the two versions in the typeset output.
This would be my preferred solution, although I haven't tested it out on large, multi-file documents.
The best package I know is Easy Review that provides the commenting functionality into LaTeX environment. For example, you can use the following simple commands such as \add{NEW TEXT}, \remove{OLD TEXT}, \replace{OLD TEXT}{NEW TEXT}, \comment{TEXT}{COMMENT}, \highlight{TEXT}, and \alert{TEXT}.
Some examples can be found here.
The todonotes package looks great, but if that proves too cumbersome to use, a simple solution is just to use footnotes (e.g. in red to separate them from regular footnotes).
Package trackchanges.sty works exactly the way changes.sty. See #Svante's reply.
It has easy to remember commands and you can change how edits will appear after compiling the document. You can also hide the edits for printing.