{rules} is about drawing lines (also called rules). Popular packages are {booktabs} (which provides high quality table rules) and {dashrule}.
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Automatic \rule width
Suppose I have some title text that I format as follows:
\begin{center}
{\small Brief Notes on}\\[-0.2em]
Some Topic of Questionable Interest\\[-0.6em]
\rule{12em}{0.75pt}
\end{center}
This ...
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Tabular with automatic \hline
Is there a package or simple command that will insert an \hline after every line in a tabular environment? It is rather annoying to do it all manually, and it seems like there should be a simple way ...
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Fill empty vertical space with a single diagonal line
I'm currently writing a document with the book class.
At the end of every part, I have a box where I put my name and I can sign. This box fills the whole horizontal space but is only a couple of ...
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Alignment rules
I find myself quite frequently in the need to check whether some elements on my page are aligned exactly as intended. As a result, I usually end up magnifying the output 400% and using a rule over my ...
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Draw a line under the headertext in ConTeXt
Sometimes, in order to seperate the headertext from the text area, I need draw a line just under the headertext.
\setuppagenumbering
[location=,
alternative=doublesided]
\definepagebreak
...
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How to draw a horizontal line at the end of proofs?
How can I draw a horizontal line at the end of proofs? I use \begin{proof}....\end{proof}.
I use amsthm package without any modification.
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summation line for multiple rows
Is there a way to add multiple lines of numbers using a "summation line"? Specifically, I want to create something like the below, only better looking.
\documentclass{article}
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How to add horizontal line after header and before footer?
How can I add horizontal line after header and before footer?
header
---------
---------
footer
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\hline with \only (or \onslide) in Beamer
In a table in beamer, I would like to remove \hline after X number of slides using
\only<1>{\hline}
But this always results in an error message:
Misplaced \noalign
What can I do to ...
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Table Line above?
\begin{center}
\captionof{table}{Register Table} \label{tab:title}
\begin{tabulary}{1.2\textwidth}{| p{3cm} || C | p{3cm} | C | C p{1cm} | }
Procedure & Expected Outcome & Pass ...
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Breaking Horizontal Rule Running Across Adjacent Columns in a Table
Is there any way to force a break in the horizontal rule running across two adjacent cells of a table. To be more precise, here is what I'm looking for:
Notice how I wish the lines to fall short of ...
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Table - remove row lines in column to furthest right
How do I remove row lines in the column to furthest to the right.
I have seen examples where they do it the left. I would like the "powers" from the table here to be on the right side instead of the ...
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How to create a dashed line in tabularx environment
I've been looking into this, and I have encountered two main "solutions":
\usepackage{arydshln}
As decribed here.
And this one:
\usepackage{dashrule}
As described in this other post.
However, ...
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footnote rule on cover page
I have a document with a cover page and foonote. I would like to add a rule above the foonote. What is the way to do this?
\documentclass[english,titlepage]{article}
\begin{document}
\title{ddd}
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vertical dotfill
How can I make vertical dotfill?
In other words, I need vertical (dashed) line which will fill all available vertical space.
(I tried to make it via rules, but not successfully.)
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cmidrule with booktabs in beamer does not show
I am trying to use a coloured \cmidrule in a table in beamer - however, it does not show up. I have read Strange disappearing colored rules in beamer which indicates that this is a bug and discusses ...
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1answer
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Remove line from Header
I am using
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
........
\lhead{My Name}
This setup creates header with a horizontal line.
How can I remove line appearing in header?
When I convert this ...
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\hhline doesnt work
I wonder you can help me why LaTeX can't draw a \hhline in my table??
(I would put a picture but I need at least 10 reputation...)
Here is the code:
\documentclass[12pt,titlepage]{report}
...
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Horizontal line through table cell
I have a very long, thin table that I'm folding onto itself to make a wider, shorter version. The table has a couple horizontal rules to separate data categories. For example, the original table is ...
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How to trim the length of \toprule? [duplicate]
How to trim \toprule (from booktabs package)?
It is probably something basic I'm missing, but I need it and it's nowhere to be found.
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Redefining \hrule to do nothing
Discl.: I have been using LaTeX for many years, but I am a beginner on the more advanced macro stuff.
For a specific hack of a latex document of mine, I want to override the use of \hrule within a ...
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votes
0answers
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Why Horizontal Line in LaTex->dvi->ps->pdf is Thicker than LaTex->dvi->pdf? [duplicate]
I try to use this line in both chains of compiling:
\rule{6 cm}{0.02 cm}
but in LaTex->dvi->ps->pdf is thick even if I make 0.02cm lower while in LaTex->dvi->pdf is a nice slim line which I need. ...
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Missing vertical line in table [closed]
I'm new to LaTeX and learning quite quickly thanks to this site, among others that teach me quick fixes for my mistakes, but I can't seem to find a fix for this, I'm not able to draw the right border ...
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votes
1answer
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Top aligned tabular: \cline equivalent of \firsthline
When aligning tabular environments with the [t] option, one can use \firsthline (from the array package) instead of \hline when a line is required at the top of the table. Like so:
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Creating a particular environment with a left-side rule
I don't have much experience in creating environments, and my understanding of them allows me to create environments which do something at the beginning and at the end (like for instance, in a "proof" ...
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Colored tables and cline/hhline
How to write \clines (or \hhline) in colored tables so that the color of the cell does not hide the line?
Here are two solutions but neither of them works fine.
\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article} ...
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How to 'shorten' \cline so that multiple groups in a table become visible?
I would like to construct a table which looks like a booktabs table (but
without using the package booktabs). Instead of \cmidrule, I used \cline,
which comes pretty close (see below), but the lines ...
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votes
1answer
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How to delete borders (rules) in a table defined with the cals package?
I recently discovered the less known cals package for defining tables HTML-style.
Here is all documentation I found:
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/cals (demo & doc)
...
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2answers
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How to eliminate certain vertical lines in tables
I'd appreciate if somebody could help me with this. I'd like to eliminate the vertical lines of the 8th row. I haven't been able to get it.
\begin{table}
\footnotesize
\begin{tabular}{| ...
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Strange disappearing colored rules in beamer
I have received a booktabs bug report of \cmidrules that disappear when coloured rules are used inside beamer (together with colortbl). The problem can be illustrated with the following simple code ...
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votes
1answer
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How to draw a horizontal line between middle of the page and one of the edges (in beamerposter)
I have a two column layout with beamerposter, where the columns are seperated by a vertical (thanks to egreg). Now I need the sections to be divided by horizontal lines that range from the edge of the ...
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votes
1answer
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How to draw a line between columns in beamerposter, reaching from header to bottom?
I am trying to make a poster using the beamerposter package and have a line below a header block (containing title, authors etc.). Now I want to draw a vertical line in the middle of the poster ...
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Nice-looking tables with thick rules
I want to make a table with rules that are thicker than the default. It's pretty straightforward to do, however the result looks bad: the lines have gaps in them (see image below). There must be a ...
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Changing properties of epigraphs using “epigraph” package
Please help me to figure out how to produce with that:
I have the following code:
\epigraph{«Теперь нам ясно, что вся структура теории чисел держится на одном
основании, а именно, на алгоритме для ...
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How to draw a simple but beautiful decorative head-rule?
The picture shown below is the desired simple head-rule, but the rule width should be much thinner like 1pt.
Real one:
So how to use Tikz or other packages to draw this kind of line as a ...
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votes
1answer
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In a table how do I add vertical lines between each column?
I have this as my current table which is fine, but I would like there to be vertical lines too just to make it look that bit neater.
I'd also like horizontal lines between each row but this would ...
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Width of epigraphs
How can I set the width of an epigraph for automatic fitting of text inside epigraph?
I would like that the line between text and source have the same width of the above text. This in every epigraph!
...
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Multiple vertical rules along text – by using \leaders?
I want to draw individual vertical rules on the left side of consecutive paragraphs/vertical boxes covering the vertical skips. In my case for every paragraph/vertical box, there can be different ...
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votes
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Horizontal line in a pbox
While creating a quiz, I needed to format logical arguments, which our textbook presents as a list of premises, one per line, then a horizontal rule as wide as the widest premise, and the conclusion ...
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votes
1answer
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Style Parcolumns vertical bar
How can I style the vertical bar in parcolumns that appears when using rulebetween=true?
I am trying to do something similar to what you can do with \vrule like the below:
...
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How to separate beamer columns with vertical lines
I am using the columns environment with beamer.
\begin{columns}[c]
\begin{column}{0.5\textwidth}
\includegraphics<1>[width=0.35\textwidth]{dictmat-4.png}
\end{column}
\hspace{-50pt}
...
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1answer
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Custom vertical page border
I wanted to have a vertical colored bar running on all my pages, to the left of the page, in between the beginning of the sheet and the beginning of the text.
Something like:
|\| text |
|\| text ...
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votes
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Problems with \toprule and \midrule in a table
Having the following siunitx table code in LyX, for each occurrence of \toprule and \midrule I obtain an error message:
The control sequence at the end of the top line of your error message
was ...
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votes
1answer
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How to remove line in header?
I am using mdframed in header but line still appears as shown below. How can I remove that line?.
Regards
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1answer
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Two horizontal lines above and under chapter-entry [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Title between lines
Can anybody please tell me how to get horizontal lines above and under the \chapter{MyChapter}? Here is an example:
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Add a hrule to only chapter not numbered
I am thinking of adding a hrule to only chapters that are not numbered, in other words the chapters created using chapter*{}. I thought of using the titlesec package- My problem is that I cannot find ...
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votes
1answer
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Rule between environments (no spacing!)
I want to place a rule between two centered tabulars like the following example.
But I am not able to control the correct spacing of 2mm in between the rule.
Can somebody maybe explain :-) what should ...
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Ruler below chapter heading [duplicate]
I am writing my thesis work using Lyx. Could anyone please help me with the code for positioning a ruler below the chapter title? The code I have doesn't display any ruler below the chapter title.
...
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votes
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Custom header/footer rules (fancyhdr?)
I want to be able to customize my header/footer so far that I can change the rules that separate it from the document. Look for example at http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/appnotes/00734b.pdf ...
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Two rules directly under each other
I'm trying to make two rules of different length directly under each other, something like:
--------------------
====================
Where = is a fatter line than -. The vertical space inbetween ...
