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Why is the \[ThickSpace] character defined as 5/18 em instead of 1/4 em as in Unicode?

I recently discovered that the \[ThickSpace] character in Mathematica is represented as $5/18\, \mathrm{em}$ from the documentation, in which I also find that its ...
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Remove spacings in BoxWhiskerChart

I like tight layouts with no unnecessary spacing. How can I do that with BoxWhiskerChart? The BarSpacing option controls ...
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Spacing in Graph using LayeredDigraphEmbedding

I currently use the following code to obtain the graph as shown. How can I change the horizontal spacing between vertices to eliminate overlap? Changing VertexSize does not help, nor does AspectRatio ...
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Formatting BoxWhiskerChart: rotate label, remove extra ticks, center legend

I am having a problem with a couple of things in this grouped box chart. Using following data I can plot a grouped box-whisker chart (example): ...
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Custom spacing for each cell in Grid

How to control the spacing of each cell in a grid? In the example below, Title and Subtitle rows waste too much space above and below. Also the rectangle in cell {4,1} is rather small, how to change ...
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How can I add a vertical spacing in a `CheckboxBar`?

I have an example here from the solution of @krasten 7. In this I would like some vertical spacing between the checkboxes. Any ideas? ...
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x axis at our desired number of points [closed]

I have: tmax = 1.2*0.1*10^11; Plot[t^5, {t, 0, tmax}] Then I get a picture as above. This is pretty easy data and the width of two points in x axis won't affect ...
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Discrepancy between the size of a font (specified by FontSize) and the generated size by "Spacer" (both claimed to be in printer's points)

The documentation says FontSize specifies the vertical size of a font, in printer's points, and that Spacer specifies a spacer ...
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Spacing of rotated elements (labels) in grid

How can I change the size of a specific subset of cells in a Grid? I'm using the ItemSize parameter for the ones I want to ...
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Avoiding label bubbles overlapping horizontal line segments in TimelinePlot

I am creating a very large TimelinePlot, with perhaps six times the number of entries as in this near-minimal example (code below): Notice that bubble (labels) for the entries below the horizontal ...
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Spanning horizontally and vertically in Grid

I'm trying to make a Grid that has one cell that spans horizontally and one that spans vertically, like so (generated manually with ...
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Set different spacings in a GraphicsGrid

I have a GraphicsGrid with some pictures and I want to create some sort of a headline for each column like this: ...
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How can I prevent SlideView from undoing column spacings?

I am putting together a presentation with SlideView. Within many of the slides I have calls to Column using the ...
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LayeredGraphPlot Vertex Spacing / Edge Length

For anyone who has used LayeredGraphPlot (Mma v9), you have probably seen that the vertex spacing is consistent throughout, that vertices have the same minimum unit ...
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Customizing the distance of plot frame tick labels to frame [duplicate]

How can I customize the distance between the frame tick labels in a plot and the frame of the plot? MWE here —nothing special: ...
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The mysterious gap inside Grid

There's this gap inside Grid which I cannot seem to remove. Perhaps someone knows how. ...
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Any way to reverse span and join two span in Mathematica?

I port a matlab code to mathematica. In the original matlab code, I use ":" to pick up the desired elements in a matrix. In mathematica, I find in the documentation that the span operator is ";;" (...
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ArrayPlot: space between displayed data and frame

When I execute the lines ...
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Grid - problem with ItemSize being ignored

Bug introduced in 7.0 or earlier and persisting through 11.0 or later. Fixed in 13.0.0 or earlier I have run into another problem with Grid today. An explicitly ...
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Manipulating spacing in a text object

I want to visually illustrate substitution in a mathematical expression. This is an example: ...
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