Questions tagged [environments]
{environments} is for general questions related to (La)TeX environments. For questions about environment subcategories like {lists}, {quoting} environments, or {floats} use the appropriate tag instead.
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usepackage comment: conditional output inside environment
I'm using package comment in my projects with great success.
Recently I tried to define conditional output inside a tabularx environment, to no avail.
MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tabularx}...
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Separate listing counter and name for "Run Output" type of listing
I want to define a new listing environment for a “program output” kind of listing via \lstnewenvironment. I also want a new counter for program output listings that's separate from regular listings, ...
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Problem with Renewenvironment `marginfigure` provided by sidenotes package
I tried to renew the environment marginfigure provided by sidenotes package, however it failed to compile.
marginfigure is used to put a figure in the margin. The MWE example is to set/reset the value ...
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Boxed environment with several rows in its title
I'm a math teacher. I use MS Office to generate handouts like these one :
I need to display several informations in the header for referencing. I tried to replicate something similar in latex using ...
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How to determine reliably whether code is called in a table or figure environment?
Section 8.17 of the APA style requires
In tables and figures, use an ampersand between names in both parenthetical and narrative citations.
The apa style for biblatex currently does not provide this ...
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Including code inside custom environment
For making homework assignments I define a custom environment (see \soln{} below) to show/hide solutions. I would like to be able to include code in the solutions somehow, which I ordinarily do with ...
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Environment for customized table
I would like to create a LaTeX environment called "myenv" to generate customized tables with the following specifications:
The environment should create a 2x2 table, with the first row ...
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Putting if-else in environment
I made a tcolorbox based environment that I want to toggle on and off depending upon whether I want to show the solutions or not.
The following code works fine when \boxtoggle is set to 1, but not ...
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Closing a macro with other possible macros
I have an interface to build songs. It works (simplified for this case) like this:
\begin{canto}{<name>}
\estrofa
contenido de la estrofa\f
\estrofa
contenido de la estrofa\f
\...
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Why are the column dividers in the first line disappearing, and is there a way to refer to count the number of lines in a table before it's completed?
I'm trying to define a new environment that wraps tabularx to set up some rowcolors and automatically numbers rows in the table. However I can't figure out why the first two dividing lines are ...
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Given that a section header is inside a tcolorbox, how can I make it such that the color of the box cycles through 4 colors?
Using xpatch and tcolorbox. I got my section headers to appear inside a tcolorbox, however, I want said headers to cycle through 4 different colours, without loosing the properties of the section ...
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Create environment for figures
I would like to create an environment to add figures with the following requirements:
Top and bottom horizontal lines with the same width of the figure
Title at top of figure, source and legend at ...
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Environment samepage breaks multicols
When making problem sets for a class, I often want to save a little space so I will use multicols for problems that have many parts. I also often want to keep an entire problem, with all of its parts, ...
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How to get rid of the additional space that I get in an environment that ends with displaymath?
I need to get rid of the additional space that I get in an environment that ends with displaymath. Consider the following MWE:
\documentclass{article}
% PACKAGES LOADING
\usepackage[]{mathtools,...
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Non-locality of itemize fumbling with \par
For reasons, I have code that puts a hook in cmd/par/after (for this MWE, this will be the stupid \vskip 2cm). I know that many parts of LaTeX interact and redefine \par and this can break hooks, as I ...
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