I have a quote on a blank page in latex. I have managed to center it horizontally, however, when i try to center it vertically it gives me some problems. I have tried
\vspace{}
\begin{quote}
\centering
quote
\end{quote}
However it doesnt work.
Try this:
\vspace*{\fill}
\begin{quote}
\centering
quote
\end{quote}
\vspace*{\fill}
You can also use increments of \paperheight. For instance if you wish to have the quote 1/3 down the page you can do
\vspace*{0.15\pageheight}
\begin{quote}
\centering
quote
\end{quote}
\newpage
Note:
The multiplication factor is based on having twice the pageheight, therefore 1/3 = 0.3 . 0.3/2 = 0.15 -> 0.15\pageheight
Rather than adding a fraction of vertical space underneath it is easier to tell continuing content to start at the top of the next page with \newpage.
Related
In my document I talk about a calculation and then I do all the equations. So I would like to have those next to each other. Unfortunately some floats really make life difficult.
I have the folowing latex code:
[Some Paragraph]
\begin{table}
... This is a small table (4rows)
\end{table}
\begin{table}
... This table spans almost a page
\end{table}
\begin{figure}
... This figure spans half a page
\end{figure}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
THIS PARAGRAP REFERS TO THE CALCULATION BELOW AND SHOULD BE FOLLOWED IMMEDIATELY BY THE CALCULATION.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\begin{align*}
... This is the CALCULATION.
\end{align*}
The result is that all the tables and figures slide between the PARAGRAPH and the CALCULATION.
I could fix every Figure with the [H] parameter but that's not what I really want to do. Instead I want to prevent anything from sliding between my PARAGRAPH and my CALCULATION
How is it possible to prevent floats from getting between a paragraph and an align?
Well I'm a newbie in latex and I want to make a latex Curriculum Vitae.
I want to create a page with two parts
First part: an image from TOP to Bottom, and from left to the middle of the page
Second part: a text zone from from TOP to Bottom, and from middle of the page to the right
I have tried to create two columns but every time one of the columnes are put on the next pages :(
Do you have any advice or tips or answer to give me?
Thank you very much for your help.
For a single-page split-view display, you can set the content in a tabularx structure. The left-hand side contains an image with no height/depth. This allows you put anything in the right-hand side.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry}
\usepackage{graphicx,tabularx}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
\pagestyle{empty}
\begin{document}
\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{#{} X X #{}}
\raisebox{\dimexpr-\height+.7\normalbaselineskip}[0pt][0pt]{%
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth,height=\textheight]{example-image}} &
\lipsum[1-3]
\end{tabularx}
\end{document}
There are multiple ways of doing this. It all depends on whether you're stuck with a single page, or want to move to a bigger canvas.
In my thesis I'm including already published papers. I've extracted pages as individual EPS files and I'm shrinking them so they fit on one page within the margins (\pageScale).
\hfill{}\includegraphics[scale=\pageScale]{Integrative-Theory-Associative/eps-pages/page-1}\hfill{}
While this works ok, the pages appear extremely small to fit in the margins. I'd like to increase the size of the graphics beyond the margins such that header and page number information would overlap with margins of the inserted pages.
eso-pic allows me to fill the whole page with my inserted pages, but the header and page number overlap with the text in the inserted pages:
\mbox{}
\AddToShipoutPictureBG*{
\includegraphics{Integrative-Theory-Associative/pdf-pages/page-1.pdf}
}
\newpage
I's like to scale down and centre the graphics on the page so they are as big as possible while text within the graphics is not behind the header and is within the margins.
I don't mind manually figuring out the right scale for graphics, but I can't figure how to place the centre of a smaller graphic in the centre of the margins. \AtPageCenter
does not do what I expected, centre the centre of the graphic, not centre the lower left of the graphic.
In the example below I've used some of adjustbox's prowess to adjust included content:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fancyhdr,lipsum}% Just for this example
\fancyhf{}
\fancyhead[C]{This is some random header text}
\fancyfoot[C]{\thepage}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{.4pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{.4pt}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\usepackage[export]{adjustbox}
\usepackage{eso-pic}
\newcommand{\pictureincenteroftextblock}[2][]{%
\AddToShipoutPictureBG*{%
\AtTextLowerLeft{%
\raisebox{.5\textheight}{%
\hspace*{.5\textwidth}%
\makebox[0pt]{\includegraphics[max width=\textwidth,max height=\textheight,valign=c,#1]{#2}}%
}%
}%
}%
}
\begin{document}
\lipsum[1-5]
\clearpage
\mbox{}% Just put something on this page.
\pictureincenteroftextblock{example-image-a}
\clearpage
\mbox{}% Just put something on this page.
\pictureincenteroftextblock{example-image-10x16}
\clearpage
\mbox{}% Just put something on this page.
\pictureincenteroftextblock{example-image-1x1}
\clearpage
\mbox{}% Just put something on this page.
\pictureincenteroftextblock{example-image-a4}
\end{document}
With the [export] option, adjustbox adds its key-values to graphicx's \includegraphics options. Those I've used are max width and max height which will shrink the included image (or page from a PDF) if the width or height exceeds these maxima while still maintaining the included image/page aspect ratio. Additionally, valign=c will align the content in a vertically centred fashion.
eso-pic is used to place the image in the background, starting at the lower-left part of the text block. Then, through standard spacing commands, it's raised into position (\raisebox) and shoved over (\hspace) to the centre of the text block. Finally the image is horizontally centred (\makebox[0pt]).
LaTeX seems to have a preference for placing figures together on a page, and placing surrounding text on a separate page. Can I somehow change that balance a bit, as I prefer figures to break up the text to avoid too black text-heavy pages.
Example:
\section{Some section}
[Half a page of text]
\begin{figure}
[...]
\caption{Figure text 1}
\end{figure}
[Half a page of text]
\begin{figure}
[...]
\caption{Figure text 2}
\end{figure}
[More text]
So what LaTeX usually does is to stack the two half pages of text on a single page, and the figures on the following page. I believe this really gives a bad balance, and bores the reader. So can I change that somehow?
I know about postfixing the \begin{figure} with [ht!], but often it does not really matter. I would like to configure the balancing algorithms in LaTeX to naturally prefer pages with combined figures and text.
Try putting the following in your preamble.
\setcounter{topnumber}{2}
\setcounter{bottomnumber}{2}
\setcounter{totalnumber}{4}
\renewcommand{\topfraction}{0.85}
\renewcommand{\bottomfraction}{0.85}
\renewcommand{\textfraction}{0.15}
\renewcommand{\floatpagefraction}{0.7}
You might play with those numbers a little to suit your own preferences. Some explanations of the different parameters are given here.
Try to tune floats positioning with:
\begin{figure}[tb] for figures that fit well in a page with text (say, half of the text height for the figure and the other half for the text)
\begin{figure}[p] for floats large enough to require a dedicated page.
Also, you can place some "barriers" for floats positioning with the packages placeins or afterpage.
Try
\makeatletter
\#colnum 1 % Or 2. It is the max of the float insertions at the top of the page.
\makeatother
I have a Latex document where I need to change the margins of only a few pages (the pages where I'm adding a lot of graphics).
In particular, I'd like to change the top margins (\voffset). I've tried doing:
\addtolength{\voffset}{-4cm}
% Insert images here
\addtolength{\voffset}{4cm}
but it didn't work. I've seen references to the geometry package, but I haven't found how to use it for a bunch of pages, and not for the whole document.
Any hints?
Use the "geometry" package and write \newgeometry{left=3cm,bottom=0.1cm} where you want to change your margins. When you want to reset your margins, you write \restoregeometry.
I've used this in beamer, but not for general documents, but it looks like that's what the original hint suggests
\newenvironment{changemargin}[2]{%
\begin{list}{}{%
\setlength{\topsep}{0pt}%
\setlength{\leftmargin}{#1}%
\setlength{\rightmargin}{#2}%
\setlength{\listparindent}{\parindent}%
\setlength{\itemindent}{\parindent}%
\setlength{\parsep}{\parskip}%
}%
\item[]}{\end{list}}
Then to use it
\begin{changemargin}{-1cm}{-1cm}
don't forget to
\end{changemargin}
at the end of the page
I got this from Changing margins “on the fly” in the TeX FAQ.
I was struggling a lot with different solutions including \vspace{-Xmm} on the top and bottom of the page and dealing with warnings and errors. Finally I found this answer:
You can change the margins of just one or more pages and then restore it to its default:
\usepackage{geometry}
...
...
...
\newgeometry{top=5mm, bottom=10mm} % use whatever margins you want for left, right, top and bottom.
...
... %<The contents of enlarged page(s)>
...
\restoregeometry %so it does not affect the rest of the pages.
...
...
...
PS:
1- This can also fix the following warning:
LaTeX Warning: Float too large for page by ...pt on input line ...
2- For more detailed answer look at this.
3- I just found that this is more elaboration on Kevin Chen's answer.
\par\vfill\break % Break Last Page
\advance\vsize by 8cm % Advance page height
\advance\voffset by -4cm % Shift top margin
% Start big page
Some pictures
% End big page
\par\vfill\break % Break the page with different margins
\advance\vsize by -8cm % Return old margings and page height
\advance\voffset by 4cm % Return old margings and page height
For figures you can use the method described here :
http://texblog.net/latex-archive/layout/centering-figure-table/
namely, do something like this:
\begin{figure}[h]
\makebox[\textwidth]{%
\includegraphics[width=1.5\linewidth]{bla.png}
}
\end{figure}
Notice that if you have subfigures in the figure, you'll probably want to enter into paragraph mode inside the box, like so:
\begin{figure}[h]
\makebox[\textwidth]{\parbox{1.5\textwidth}{ %
\centering
\subfigure[]{\includegraphics[width=0.7\textwidth]{a.png}}
\subfigure[]{\includegraphics[width=0.7\textwidth]{b.png}}
\end{figure}
For allowing the figure to be centered in the page, protruding into both margins rather than only the right margin.
This usually does the trick for images. Notice that with this method, the caption of the image will still be in the delimited by the normal margins of the page (which is a good thing).
A slight modification of this to change the \voffset works for me:
\newenvironment{changemargin}[1]{
\begin{list}{}{
\setlength{\voffset}{#1}
}
\item[]}{\end{list}}
And then put your figures in a \begin{changemargin}{-1cm}...\end{changemargin} environment.
Look up \enlargethispage in some LaTeX reference.
I could not find a easy way to set the margin for a single page.
My solution was to use vspace with the number of centimeters of empty space I wanted:
\vspace*{5cm}
I put this command at the beginning of the pages that I wanted to have +5cm of margin.
This worked for me:
\newpage % larger page1
\enlargethispage{1.5cm} % more room for text or floats
\advance\voffset by -0.5cm % reduce top margin
\advance\footskip by 1cm % lower page number
Some content
\newpage % larger page2
\enlargethispage{1.5cm}
Some content
...
\newpage % return to normal page
\advance\voffset by 0.5cm
\advance\footskip by -1cm
I had the same problem in a beamer presentation. For me worked using the columns environment:
\begin{frame}
\begin{columns}
\column{1.2\textwidth}
\begin{figure}
\subfigure{\includegraphics[width=.49\textwidth]{1.png}}
\subfigure{\includegraphics[width=.49\textwidth]{2.png}}
\end{figure}
\end{columns}
\end{frame}