Questions tagged [scaling]
{scaling} is about scaling document elements. Use this tag in addition to other tags specifying what should be scaled.
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transform canvas command stops working when text is too small
This is a follow up from a previous question, where I received a useful answer.
The solution worked for me initially, but now it seems to stop working when the text size is too small?
\documentclass[...
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Resizebox not scaling text in tikz image
I am trying to scale the tikz image
using resizebox, but for some reason the text in the image is not being scaled:
Here is my code:
\begin{frame}{Circle Packing} \pause
\begin{figure}[H]
\centering
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Draw stroke only outside of the path in TikZ
For the following figure, I would like to draw only outside of the path, such that the stroke does not overlap with the fill.
\documentclass[tikz,border=10pt]{standalone}
\usetikzlibrary{calc,...
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Change (horizontal) line length for single legend entry in pgfplots
How do I change the line length of an individual entry in a pgfplots legend? I cannot use the solution provided here, as I also have other custom markers in the legend, and this screws up the vertical ...
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How to make 3D points scale properly in appearance?
I have this 3D plot in pgf but I have an issue with scaling. The points s_3 and s_4 should have the same length but they appear not: s_3 appears bigger than s_4 why?
\documentclass{standalone} % You ...
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pgfplots different axis scaling in one diagram for I-V-characteristics of a diode
I have a set of measurements for constructing the characteristic curve of a diode, and I would like to format my plot similar to the one shown below. However, I need to have the axes in different ...
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Troubles with this plot (tikz, pgfplots)
I wanted to draw a plot for arcsin function, and this is what I managed to compute so far
\documentclass[a4paper, 10pt]{scrreport}
\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{total={173mm, 257mm}, margin=17mm}
\...
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Second Argument of \fontsize{}{}\selectfont Not Working in a Pspicture
Consider the code:
\documentclass[12pt]{book}
\usepackage[hmargin=0in,vmargin=0in,top=0in,paperwidth=5.0in,paperheight=8in]{geometry}
\newcommand{\longemdash}{{\fontfamily{cmss}\selectfont---}}
\...
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Short left and right arrows
In answers to previous questions [1,2], people have created ways to produce a right-pointing arrow shorter than the default \rightarrow. However, I'd really like matching left and right ones, and it's ...
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Scale from A4 to A5 for documentclass book
Original question:
I found the answer from Simon Dispa with the following proposal:
% !TeX TS-program = pdflatex
\mag=1414 % added <<<<<
\PassOptionsToPackage{usegeometry, paper=a5, ...
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Creating a Multi-page, Auto-scaling Table with Repeating Headers in LaTeX for Multilingual Data
I need assistance in creating a LaTeX table in overleaf that can span multiple pages, automatically scale its columns to fit content when additional columns are added, and include repeating headers on ...
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How to Transform a PSBall into Other Shapes
Consider the code which compiles with XeLaTeX:
\documentclass[12pt]{book}
%\usepackage{scalefnt,scalerel}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{pst-slpe}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{tikz}
\...
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Increasing default font size?
I've been working on a book recently and I had to increase the paper size to fit the pdf cover page but now all of the text is super tiny. So sorry if this is a dumb question, but how can I scale up ...
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Rescaling Kp-fonts in plain tex
I am using Kp-fonts in a plain tex (not LaTeX) document. I invoke them with the line:
\input kp-fonts
They work fine at the default size.
But in some cases I would like to rescale these. So I type, ...
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How do I scale nodes in TikZ without scaling the text inside?
I want a node that is shaped like a hexagon, but slightly stretched on the x-axis. Currently, I achieve this, but it stretches the text inside as well. How do I do this without stretching the text?
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How to increase accuracy when scaling data from table in pgfplots
I try to plot data with a small range but a large offset (my x data is a time in seconds, ranging from 26400 to 264480) and seem to reach accuracy limits of pgfplots when scaling this data after ...
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How to scale log with zero and node to mark?
\pdfoutput=1
\documentclass[11pt]{standalone}
% \usepackage[review]{EMNLP2023}
\usepackage{times}
\usepackage{latexsym}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{microtype}
\...
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How to make x and y, which stand after the vertical line, have the same size as the small \psi and x, which stand in \partial
\begin{equation*}
\psi(\omega) = \left.{\psi}\right|_{\omega=0} +
\omega \cdot
\underbrace {\left.\dfrac{d\psi}{d\omega}\right|_{\omega=0} }_{\left.\frac{\partial \psi}{\partial x}\right|_{\...
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Controlling the scaling of predefined x-ray of a head-top drawings using \def
This MWE is just a part of a document, containing many other drawings and text, added to this frame and other frames.
I would like to control the scaling of the defined drawings (xraytube and headtop) ...
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When using scalebox to fit my algorithm in one page a random number appears
Here's the code:
\begin{algorithm}[h!]
\scalebox{0.85}{
\begin{minipage}{1.1\linewidth}
\caption{Inferir relação}
\SetAlgoLined
\DontPrintSemicolon
\begin{algorithmic}[1]
\Objetivo
\Desc{Procura o ...
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Ellipse not properly scaling and rotating in pgfplot axis environment
I'm having trouble drawing an ellipse in a pgfplots axis environment based on the major axes, minor axes, and angle w.r.t. the x-axis. I've managed to draw such an ellipse using Tikz, however, the ...
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How to reduce the height of the capitals in the sans math font in newtx version ≥ 1.724?
Running pdflatex on
\documentclass[ngerman]{article}
\pagestyle{empty}
\usepackage[T2A,T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage[slantedGreek,subscriptcorrection,helvratio=.9]{newtx}% I ...
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How to automatically scale and align /tikzpicture with font size
I've created some symbols with TikZ (and for some of them used shapes.geometric) to use within text, e. g. this one:
\newcommand{\kttriangle}{\tikz{\node[regular polygon, regular polygon sides=3, draw,...
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Scaling dsfont without scalerel (any alternatives?)
My problem is as follows: I would like to use the upright fourier package symbols together with dsfont. This produces:
I therefore want to scale the dsfont symbols down to the same size as the ...
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DeclareMathOperator with auto scaling parentheses
Using the "physics" package, there's a nice behavior where if you write
\usepackage{physics}
\begin{document}
\[
\arctan(\frac{1}{\sqrt{3}})
\]
\end{document}
The parentheses will ...
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Fontspec: separately scale uppercase and lowercase so `tt` has same cap-to-x-height ratio as main font
TL/DR
I understand this is a perverse question, but—is it possible, in fontspec/XeLaTeX|LuaLaTeX, to separately scale uppercase and lowercase letters of a monospace typewriter font to achieve the ...
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How to reduce size of my equation to fit properly in my beamer presentation slide?
I am preparing slides using beamer. However, my equation has exceeded the page margin.
I have tried several solutions given on this website, but with those solutions, my .tex file is not compiling. ...
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Scaling up a math symbol messes up toc
I am trying to scale up a greek letter inside a math formula. To do this, i follow this answer and use \scaleobj from the package scalerel
However, when I try to use an expression that includes my ...
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Automatically resizes text to fit perfectly within its bounds
I am looking for the same functionality as simc/auto_size_text,
a flutter widget that automatically resizes text to fit perfectly within its bounds.
However, I want to achieve this for physically ...
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Ticks scaling - How to change the common factor multiplier to an offset value?
I am plotting the following figure using Python and I obtain this render:
Here, Python is automatically adding an constant value offset (+9.192682e9) on the y axis to read more easily the data.
Now, ...
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Table with tabular goes outside of page and is not centered when minipage is added to adjustbox
I am trying to have my table fit the text width and be centered in the middle. Without minipage it works as intended but when I add a minipage to the adjustbox (since I need the caption and potential ...
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On Scaling Horizontal Spacing Commands
Many horizontal spacing commands are of course, found in What commands are there for horizontal spacing?.
I would like to inquire if, say, invoking the \enspace command, which produces a space of .5em,...
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Adjusting the Vertical Spacing Between Consecutive Lines with a Scaled Typewriter Font [duplicate]
Consider the code
\documentclass[12pt]{book}
\usepackage{scalefnt}
\begin{document}
\thispagestyle{empty}
\begin{description}
\item {\fontfamily{lmvtt}\selectfont{No one should be ashamed to admit ...
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Why Does Latex Consider My Overlaid Accented Title to be in Math Mode?
Consider the code:
\documentclass[a5paper,12pt,onecolumn,openany,final]{book}
\usepackage[hmargin=0.7in,vmargin=0.75in]{geometry}
\usepackage{pstricks,psvectorian}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{...
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Automatically scaling pseudocodeblock to fit in the page
I have an environment (pseudocodeblock from the cryptocode package) that goes into the margin if the content is too large:
For now, I can manually resize it using \scalebox and minipage, but I need ...
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How to fit references number into a single table
I am working on overleaf and preparing a report. I am working on a review paper in which I surveyed over a hundred papers. Thus, I need to put them as references. However, I am unable to fit the ...
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Scaling an \includepdf onto a Page with a Different Geometry
UPDATED
Consider the code (which I compile with xelatex)
\documentclass[12pt,onecolumn,openany,final]{book}
\usepackage[hmargin=0in,vmargin=0in,paperwidth=5.625in,paperheight=8.5in]{geometry}
\...
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On Scaling the Contents of a Minipage
Consider the code
\documentclass[12pt]{book}
\usepackage{scalerel,scalefnt}
\usepackage[showframe,paperwidth=5.5in,paperheight=8.25in]{geometry}
\textwidth=4in
\textheight=6.40in
\voffset -7pt
\...
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How to have corectly scaled intervals on the same line with some text? [closed]
I want the (-infty, -b/2a] interval to be scaled as the big one, but, at the same time, to came in line after the text. The one that's with the text is smaller. How can I remediate this?
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On a Comment of Percusse: "Shrink Paper Size, Print Big!"
In the post Should I use \documentclass[12pt]{article} with \Large or \documentclass{article} with \LARGE?,
Percusse made the following comment:
PDF is vector. Shrink paper size, print big!
QUESTION: ...
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arrow with triangle tail
I'd like to have an arrow shape with a triangle tail, which goes along well with\rightarrowtriangle from the stmaryrd package. Using \smalltriangleright\!\!\!\to with \smalltriangleright from MnSymbol ...
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Tikz Question: Scaling text inside nodes
I'm still new to Latex and I am especially new to drawing/coding logic gates in Latex. I am having a problem scaling the text inside a logic gate and none of the solutions I've found online so far ...
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scale & view at 3d plot
I want to have the graph of this function:
Here how it looks like from geogebra:
I wanted to draw it with tikz, so I wrote this code:
\documentclass[a4paper, 12pt]{article}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\...
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How to create a custom font size like \tiny that horizontally squishes font?
The appearance of double sub/superscripts is extremely horizontally squished. For example, x^{2^{k^\alpha+1}} yields
I would like to create a custom font that "squishes" the k^\alpha+1 ...
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Minimizing table, insert and fit within a single page [duplicate]
\documentclass[12pt]{elsarticle}
%% for removing the footer
\makeatletter
\def\ps@pprintTitle{%
\let\@oddhead\@empty
\let\@evenhead\@empty
%\let\@oddfoot\@empty
\let\@evenfoot\@oddfoot
}
\...
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Can I scale text horizontally with TikZ?
I'm trying to draw circles in TikZ with 1-3 digit numbers inscribed into them. The numbers should all have the same height and should be squashed horizontally to fit into the circle. The height should ...
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Right aligned text in the same line
\documentclass[12pt] {article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{enumerate}
\begin{document}
\begin{enumerate}[1.]
\item Qustion no 1.
\begin{flushright}
[Ans:\;...
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Update "How to scale a tikzpicture to \textwidth" for expl3/xparse
I am probably the thousandth person who wants to scale a tikzpicture to the size of \textwidth.
There is a solution for this problem given in https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/6391/193625
however it ...
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tikzpicture cannot be centered after scaling axis
Using This MWE I get the plot I want, however it is not correctly centered above the caption.
I think the problem is the scaling, but this is necessary since without it the figure would be too small.
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How to fit a table with a very long column into a 2 column format?
New to latex so apologies if this has been asked, I haven't found this specific question on SO.
I have a table that I'm trying to fit into a 2 column page format. The actual link for the full packages ...
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