## LaTeX forum ⇒ General ⇒ A very long arrow

LaTeX specific issues not fitting into one of the other forums of this category.
Stefanie
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### A very long arrow

Hi guys,

i need to insert a very long arrow in my latex document, almost as long as the width of my text. do you know about a latex command which can do that? i don't mind using an extra package.

localghost
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You could use the standard picture environment and draw a vector or use the pgf/tikZ package and do the according thing.

Best regards
Thorsten¹
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¹ System: openSUSE 42.2 (Linux 4.4.52), TeX Live 2016 (vanilla), TeXworks 0.6.1

gmedina
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Joined: Wed Jul 11, 2007 11:45 pm
Another option would be to use the \xrightarrow or \xleftarrow comands provided by the amsmath package, as the following example suggests:
1. \documentclass{article}
2. \usepackage{amsmath}
3.
4. \begin{document}
5.
6. $\xrightarrow{\hspace*{3cm}}$
7.
8. $\xrightarrow{\hspace*{8cm}}$
9.
10. $\xrightarrow{\hspace*{10cm}}$
11.
12. $\xleftarrow{\hspace*{2cm}}$
13.
14. $\xleftarrow{\hspace*{7cm}}$
15.
16. $\xleftarrow{\hspace*{11cm}}$
17.
18. \end{document}
1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55,89,144,233,...

Stefanie
Posts: 25
Joined: Fri Apr 04, 2008 2:39 pm
thank you gmedina, that was exactly what i was looking for. tikz and the picture environment are too complicated for what i had in mind (and difficult to get right). this solution is much quicker.

diazdeus
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Joined: Fri Sep 28, 2018 9:34 pm
I need also long arrows, left and right, to put a broken line in up of a table. That's my solution:
1. \renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.3}
2. \begin{table}[!h]
3. \begin{center}
4. \caption{Secuencia de emisiones}
5. \hspace*{-8pt}$\xleftarrow{\hspace*{2.6cm}}\textrm{10 segundos}\xrightarrow{\hspace*{2.6cm}}$
6. \begin{tabular}{c|cccccccc|c}
7. \toprule
8. \textbf{Estación} & \textbf{0,9} & \textbf{1,0} & \textbf{1,1} & \textbf{1,2} & \textbf{1,1} & \textbf{0,9} & \textbf{1,2} & \textbf{1,0} & \textbf{Situación}\\
9. \hline
10. \textbf{A} & 10,2 & 13,6 & 11,33 & & & 11,05 & & & Noruega\\
11. \textbf{B} & & 10,2 & 13,6 & 11,33 & & & 11,05 & & Liberia\\
12. \textbf{C} & & & 10,2 & 13,6 & 11,33 & & & 11,05 & Hawaii\\
13. \textbf{D} & 11,05 & & & 10,2 & 13,6 & 11,33 & & & EE.UU.\\
14. \textbf{E} & & 11,05 & & & 10,2 & 13,6 & 11,33 & & I. Reunion\\
15. \textbf{F} & & & 11,05 & & & 10,2 & 13,6 & 11,33 & Argentina\\
16. \textbf{G} & 11,33 & & & 11,05 & & & 10,2 & 13,6 & Australia\\
17. \textbf{H} & 13,6 & 11,33 & & & 11,05 & & & 10,2 & Japón\\
18. \bottomrule
19. \multicolumn{1}{c}{} & \multicolumn{8}{|c|}{Intervalos entre emisión 0,2 segundos} & \\[-2pt]
20. \cmidrule{2-9}
21. \end{tabular}
22. \end{center}
23. \end{table}

The packages amsmath and booktabs are needed.