When should we use \begin {center} instead of \centering? {\centering contents\par } Usually it's used inside some environment that provides the necessary \par, such as minipage or figure Try abc{\centering def}ghi to see the effect The main difference with center is that \centering doesn't leave vertical space before and after it: \begin{center} is defined in terms of trivlist
floats - What does `\centering` do? - TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange Command \centering (the same without the blank line of environment center) wants to center the image(s) inside the given text width With \centering the images are centered and placed one below the other, because both together can not fit into text width MWE:
Basic: How can I stop centering a text? - LaTeX Stack Exchange An easy way to do this is to use the switch command for the alignment you want Here is an example of centering the text over a multicol environment and returning to justified text for the following content There may be a better way, but I got errors trying to use a centering environment or a \par
How to center the table in Latex - TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange You can just add \centering right after \begin{table} to center the table: \begin{table} \centering \begin{tabular} \end{tabular} \end{table} As commented by @PeterGrill, if you are not using floats (i e , \begin{table} , \end{table} ), then you will need to group it:
How to vertically-center the text of the cells? I will replicate @xport's answer with my new LaTeX3 package tabularray It is much easier while the images are still exactly vertically centered using this method
\center and \centering [duplicate] - TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange I think \center is what happens "under the hood" when you call begin{center} (and on the other end, \end{center} shows up as \endcenter), while \centering just applies to the entire current scope Thus, if I'm correct, you should either use \centering or the environment, but never \center (The reason I'm writing this as a comment and not an
Should I use center or centering for figures and tables? Each page shows 2 figures, one using \centering and one using center The differences in spacing are the result of ordering the two figure environments differently On the first page, \centering is used first and the center environment second, while on the second page, this order is reversed
Centering with \includegraphics not with \begin {figure}? \centering can cause trouble when you specify a rotation angle in a way that defining an environment using \begin{center} \end{center} seems to avoid - however, if \centering is causing trouble, it can help to specify as follows: {\centering \includegraphics[width=0 5\textwidth]{mypicture png} \par} –
\centering vs. centering environment - TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange It recommends: Note that (1) figures should be centered via the LATEX \centering command—this is a better approach than using the center environment which adds unwanted vertical spacing; But LyX will use center environment if you have a graphic in a figure and choose center paragraph alignment You can, of course, just insert \centering with ERT
How can I center an equation inside an align environment? For centering, I think align always centers the equations, but if you wish to control the spacing, you may consider alignat If you you don't care about aligning the second equation, then you need to go with gather not align