Answer by Will Robertson for Difference between \textwidth, \linewidth and...
I think the simplest way to describe the difference is as follows:\hsize is a TeX primitive that should not be usually used in LaTeX\textwidth is the (constant) width of the total text...
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\hsize is the main parameter that TeX uses when typesetting: whenever it finishes a paragraph it looks at the current value of \hsize for breaking it into horizontal boxes. Next, there are \leftskip...
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Answer by user2478 for Difference between \textwidth, \linewidth and \hsize
A test document in a twocolumn and...
View ArticleAnswer by Phil Hirschhorn for Difference between \textwidth, \linewidth and...
One difference is that in list and trivlist environments (i.e., including quote, quotation, and other such environments), \linewidth is smaller than \textwidth by the sum of \leftmargin and...
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The three lengths \textwidth, \linewidth and \hsize seem to all hold the width of the current line. At least I never saw some real difference between \textwidth and \linewidth in my code. Both seem to...
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