Re: a LaTeX question

2007-09-11 Thread George N. White III
On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Richard Lyons wrote: Does anyone here use LaTeX. Not a Debian question at all, but isn't it possible to define a quantity, say a cash amount \def\yearly {12000} and then have latex calculate from it to enter another figure, say \monthly=\yearly / 12 hoping to get the f

Re: a LaTeX question

2007-09-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 01:10:15PM +0100, Ari Constancio wrote: On 9/2/07, Ari Constancio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I suppose I'll have to get a copy. This is not the first time I have seen that recommendation. It is just that I prefer to use online resources. TeX/La

Re: a LaTeX question

2007-09-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 08:34:10AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 02 Sep 2007, Richard Lyons wrote: > > > > Yes, I had spotted that it was installed on mine too. texdoctk was new > > to me, though. I had to install perl-tk and tetex-doc, but after that, > > --wow! There is a lot of additio

Re: a LaTeX question

2007-09-03 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 02 Sep 2007, Richard Lyons wrote: > > Yes, I had spotted that it was installed on mine too. texdoctk was new > to me, though. I had to install perl-tk and tetex-doc, but after that, > --wow! There is a lot of additional information there! > > Thanks Douglas > Indeed. This amazingly usef

Re: a LaTeX question

2007-09-02 Thread Luis Fernando Llana Díaz
On Sunday 02 September 2007 13:26:18 Richard Lyons wrote: > > I suppose I'll have to get a copy. This is not the first time I have > seen that recommendation. It is just that I prefer to use online > resources. TeX/LaTeX seems unique in lacking a good online manual. > In the package tetex-doc yo

Re: a LaTeX question

2007-09-02 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 09:34:00AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 01:10:15PM +0100, Ari Constancio wrote: > > On 9/2/07, Ari Constancio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I suppose I'll have to get a copy. This is not the first time I have > > > > seen that recommendatio

Re: a LaTeX question

2007-09-02 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070902 06:35]: > On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 07:08:11AM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: >> If you do not have a copy of "A Guide to LaTeX" by Helmut Kopka & >> Patrick W. Daly, you need to get a copy. It is by far the best LaTeX >> book, and the only one you likel

Re: a LaTeX question

2007-09-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 01:10:15PM +0100, Ari Constancio wrote: > On 9/2/07, Ari Constancio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I suppose I'll have to get a copy. This is not the first time I have > > > seen that recommendation. It is just that I prefer to use online > > > resources. TeX/LaTeX seem

Re: a LaTeX question

2007-09-02 Thread Ari Constancio
The link is http://tobi.oetiker.ch/lshort/lshort.pdf On 9/2/07, Ari Constancio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I suppose I'll have to get a copy. This is not the first time I have > > seen that recommendation. It is just that I prefer to use online > > resources. TeX/LaTeX seems unique in lackin

Re: a LaTeX question

2007-09-02 Thread Ari Constancio
> I suppose I'll have to get a copy. This is not the first time I have > seen that recommendation. It is just that I prefer to use online > resources. TeX/LaTeX seems unique in lacking a good online manual. Probably because there *is* a good online manual, called "The not so Short Introduction

Re: a LaTeX question

2007-09-02 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 07:08:11AM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > * Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070901 06:21]: > > Does anyone here use LaTeX. Not a Debian question at all, but isn't it > > possible to define a quantity, say a cash amount > > \def\yearly {12000} > > and then have la

Re: a LaTeX question

2007-09-01 Thread debian
On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 12:17:53PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > Does anyone here use LaTeX. Not a Debian question at all, but isn't it > possible to define a quantity, say a cash amount http://www.tug.org/texlive/Contents/live/texmf-doc/doc/english/catalogue/bytopic.html#calculating Perhaps you

Re: a LaTeX question

2007-09-01 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070901 06:21]: > Does anyone here use LaTeX. Not a Debian question at all, but isn't it > possible to define a quantity, say a cash amount > \def\yearly {12000} > and then have latex calculate from it to enter another figure, say > \monthly=\yearly / 12

a LaTeX question

2007-09-01 Thread Richard Lyons
Does anyone here use LaTeX. Not a Debian question at all, but isn't it possible to define a quantity, say a cash amount \def\yearly {12000} and then have latex calculate from it to enter another figure, say \monthly=\yearly / 12 hoping to get the figure '1000' printed in the document by in

Re: [offtopic] latex question (correct question)

2002-09-04 Thread Steve Juranich
> I'm using verbatim to include these files but it is giving me a lot of > Overfull \hbox > How to fix this? > TIA,Paulo Henrique. The way I usually deal with this is to use a smaller font for the verbatim stuff. Try a \footnotesize command right before your

Re: [offtopic] latex question (correct question)

2002-09-04 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
The lines are being cuted in the end. It is very uggly. How I can fix this? On Wed, 4 Sep 2002 18:11:39 -0400 David Roundy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 07:11:14PM +, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > > > > Excuse I press the sen

Re: [offtopic] latex question (correct question)

2002-09-04 Thread David Roundy
On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 07:11:14PM +, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > > Excuse I press the send button accidentally > > > Hi all, > I know that this isnt a LaTeX list but I didnt find in Google nor LaTeX >newsgroup. > I have an document in LaTeX that

[offtopic] latex question (correct question)

2002-09-04 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Excuse I press the send button accidentally Hi all, I know that this isnt a LaTeX list but I didnt find in Google nor LaTeX newsgroup. I have an document in LaTeX that I put a lot of conf files (/etc/*) inside it. I'm using verbatim to include these fi

[offtopic] latex question

2002-09-04 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, I know that this isnt a LaTeX list but I didnt find in Google nor LaTeX newsgroup. I have an document in LaTeX that I put a lot of conf files (/etc/*) inside it. I'm using Donald> Verbatim does not auto wrap. That wouldn't be verbatim, and it Do

Re: Hopefully a simple latex question.

2001-07-03 Thread Alan Shutko
Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [15:03:40 heblatex]$ TEXMF=/var/lib/texmf/:./:../hebfonts/: elatex hebrew.dtx TEXMF=/var/lib/texmf//:./:../hebfonts/: elatex hebrew.dtx Without the two //, it won't recursively surch the directory. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of fla

Re: Hopefully a simple latex question.

2001-07-03 Thread Shaul Karl
> > --f+W+jCU1fRNres8c > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Hello, > > Am Dienstag, den 03. Juli 2001 05:07:03 schrieb Shaul Karl: > > [05:00:24 heblatex]$ grep -A2 'override TEXMF' /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf > >

Re: Hopefully a simple latex question.

2001-07-03 Thread M G Berberich
Hello, Am Dienstag, den 03. Juli 2001 05:07:03 schrieb Shaul Karl: > [05:00:24 heblatex]$ grep -A2 'override TEXMF' /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf > % You can set an environment variable to override TEXMF if you're testing > % a new TeX tree, without changing anything else. > % > [05:00:32 heblatex]$ > >

Hopefully a simple latex question.

2001-07-02 Thread Shaul Karl
[05:00:24 heblatex]$ grep -A2 'override TEXMF' /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf % You can set an environment variable to override TEXMF if you're testing % a new TeX tree, without changing anything else. % [05:00:32 heblatex]$ Indeed I need to override TEXMF, or that is what I think: [05:00:32 heblatex]$ T

Re: latex question

2000-11-07 Thread Paul Huygen
Manuel Hendel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm looking for a latex file like g-brief.cls which is especialy for > business letters. What I need to do is to define the footnote by > myself. Can anyone give me a hint. I don't know about g-brief, but the "brief" class (in package ntgclass) enables t

Re: latex question

2000-11-07 Thread Paul Huygen
Manuel Hendel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm looking for a latex file like g-brief.cls which is especialy for > business letters. What I need to do is to define the footnote by > myself. Can anyone give me a hint. I don't know about g-brief, but the "brief" class (in package ntgclass) enables t

Re: latex question

2000-11-06 Thread Andre Berger
Sorry for this followup to my own posting. > Manuel Hendel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Hi All, > > > > > > > > I'm looking for a latex file like g-brief.cls which is especialy for > > > > business letters. What I need to do is to define the footnote by > > > > myself. Can anyone give

Re: latex question

2000-11-06 Thread Andre Berger
Manuel Hendel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi All, > > > > > > I'm looking for a latex file like g-brief.cls which is especialy for > > > business letters. What I need to do is to define the footnote by > > > myself. Can anyone give me a hint. > > > > You lost me. You always define foot

Re: latex question

2000-11-06 Thread Manuel Hendel
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 04:48:30PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > > Manuel Hendel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I tried this. But if I do \footnote{The Text I want}, I always get a > > line above and number in the front. Can I change this in a way? > > I need to write my address, "Aufsichtsra

Re: latex question

2000-11-06 Thread Florian Weimer
Manuel Hendel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I tried this. But if I do \footnote{The Text I want}, I always get a > line above and number in the front. Can I change this in a way? > I need to write my address, "Aufsichtsrat" (sorry I don't know the english > meaning) and bankaccount there. Perhaps

Re: latex question

2000-11-06 Thread Manuel Hendel
ists.debian.org; Mon, 6 Nov 2000 10:06:57 -0500 > From: "Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 10:06:57 -0500 > To: Debian-User-Mailinglist > Subject: Re: latex question > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Mail-Followup-To: Debian-User-Maili

Re: latex question

2000-11-06 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 03:00:32PM +0100, Manuel Hendel wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm looking for a latex file like g-brief.cls which is especialy for > business letters. What I need to do is to define the footnote by > myself. Can anyone give me a hint. You lost me. You always define footnote con

latex question

2000-11-06 Thread Manuel Hendel
Hi All, I'm looking for a latex file like g-brief.cls which is especialy for business letters. What I need to do is to define the footnote by myself. Can anyone give me a hint. Thanks, Manuel

Re: Urgent LaTex question

2000-09-18 Thread Paul Huygen
Loren Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got a quick LaTex question. Is there a way to make LaTex _not_ > justify the text on the right?[..] > It's for a paper which I need to submit tomorrow morning, [..] \begin{flushleft} blabla bloebloe etc. \end{flushleft}

Re: Urgent LaTex question

2000-09-18 Thread Vee-Eye
> I've got a quick LaTex question. Is there a way to make LaTex _not_ > justify the text on the right? The only thing I can think of is line > breaks after each line. > > It's for a paper which I need to submit tomorrow morning, with a guideline > that the text be

Re: Urgent LaTex question

2000-09-18 Thread Thomas Halahan
\raggedright On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Loren Hoffman wrote: > Hi, > > I've got a quick LaTex question. Is there a way to make LaTex _not_ > justify the text on the right? The only thing I can think of is line > breaks after each line. > > It's for a paper which I

Urgent LaTex question

2000-09-18 Thread Loren Hoffman
Hi, I've got a quick LaTex question. Is there a way to make LaTex _not_ justify the text on the right? The only thing I can think of is line breaks after each line. It's for a paper which I need to submit tomorrow morning, with a guideline that the text be only left-justified. If

Re: quick latex question

2000-01-14 Thread Armin Wegner
Foo \hfill bar \\

quick latex question

2000-01-14 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, How do I do this in Latex: Foo bar that is, I want flushright the "bar" word. I tried \begin{flushright} and it starts a new pagraph. I also tried \raggedright and it gives error, coz I am using this within a

Re: Quick Latex question

1999-11-18 Thread Rob Mahurin
That worked quite nicely, thank you. Also, if I put my \label and \caption between \end{tabular} and \end{center}, I can have separate captions on the tables, like I wanted. Awesome. Thanks a lot. Rob -- "Just the facts, Ma'am" -- Joe Friday

Re: Quick Latex question

1999-11-18 Thread Jose Marin
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Rob Mahurin wrote: > On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 11:33:34AM +, Jose Marin wrote: > > > > Just use the minipage environment for each of the tables. Do something > > like this: (for instance) > > > > \begin{minipage}{0.4\textwidth} > > \begin{table}[t] > > \begin{c

Re: Quick Latex question

1999-11-18 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 11:33:34AM +, Jose Marin wrote: > > Just use the minipage environment for each of the tables. Do something > like this: (for instance) > > \begin{minipage}{0.4\textwidth} > \begin{table}[t] > \begin{center} > \begin{tabular}[]{} > % Table

Re: off-topic: quick LaTeX question

1999-11-18 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Rob Mahurin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm writing a LaTeX document that contains two very similar tables > which I would like to have side-by-side to accent their similarity: > > --- --- > | table 1 | | table 2 | > | | | | >

Re: off-topic: quick LaTeX question

1999-11-18 Thread Kurt Taylor
You might try a LaTeX package called subfigure. It can be downloaded from the CTAN website at ftp://ftp.duke.edu/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/catalogue.html. I don't know how well it works as I just came across it a few days ago and haven't had a chance to work with it yet, but it looks like it

off-topic: quick LaTeX question

1999-11-18 Thread Rob Mahurin
I'm writing a LaTeX document that contains two very similar tables which I would like to have side-by-side to accent their similarity: --- --- | table 1 | | table 2 | | | | | --- --- caption 1

Re: quick simple latex question

1999-08-10 Thread Paul Huygen
Shao Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > I just cannot find out how to set the a4paper to landscape. > I use: [..] \usepackage{portland} LaTeX2e has the landscape option built in, so portland is not needed. You need portland if you want to switch between landscape and portland in a single do

Re: quick simple latex question

1999-08-10 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Shao Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > There is no latex errors. The file.tex compiled fine. > When I view it using gv, it still displays as portrait. > If I use gv -landscape, it changes the page size and then > rotates my document 90 degrees... > If I lpr

Re: quick simple latex question

1999-08-10 Thread Jesse Jacobsen
On 08/10/99 at 15:14:49, David Wright wrote concerning "Re: quick simple latex question": > I get the impression from the LaTeX Companion that portland > requires you to insert \special commands (after the \clearpage > commands) to turn the page. > > I use lscape mysel

Re: quick simple latex question

1999-08-10 Thread David Wright
Quoting Shao Zhang ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi, > There is no latex errors. The file.tex compiled fine. > When I view it using gv, it still displays as portrait. > If I use gv -landscape, it changes the page size and then > rotates my document 90 degrees... > > If I lpr

Re: quick simple latex question

1999-08-10 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, There is no latex errors. The file.tex compiled fine. When I view it using gv, it still displays as portrait. If I use gv -landscape, it changes the page size and then rotates my document 90 degrees... If I lpr -Pprinter file.ps, it comes out in portrait

Re: quick simple latex question

1999-08-10 Thread Michael Stenner
On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 08:34:55PM +1000, Shao Zhang wrote: > Hi, > I just cannot find out how to set the a4paper to landscape. > I use: > > \usepackage{portland} > > \begin{document} > \landscape > \end{document} > > But it does not work What do yo

quick simple latex question

1999-08-10 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, I just cannot find out how to set the a4paper to landscape. I use: \usepackage{portland} \begin{document} \landscape \end{document} But it does not work Please help me... Shao. -- _

Re: LaTeX question?

1996-12-02 Thread Jason K. Keimig
On Sun, 1 Dec 1996, Jonas Bofjall wrote: > I have a feeling that this question is very off-topic here, but in that > case I would appreciate if I am told where it is not. I installed Debian > on a computer mainly to run LaTeX, but I don't understand really what I > need to do. I installed almost

Re: LaTeX question?

1996-12-02 Thread Jason K. Keimig
On Sun, 1 Dec 1996, Jonas Bofjall wrote: > I have a feeling that this question is very off-topic here, but in that > case I would appreciate if I am told where it is not. I installed Debian > on a computer mainly to run LaTeX, but I don't understand really what I > need to do. I installed almost

Re: LaTeX question?

1996-12-02 Thread salwen
> "Jonas" == Jonas Bofjall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jonas> I have a feeling that this question is very off-topic here, Jonas> but in that case I would appreciate if I am told where it Jonas> is not. I installed Debian on a computer mainly to run Jonas> LaTeX, but I don't und

Re: LaTeX question?

1996-12-02 Thread Fabien Ninoles
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 1 Dec 1996, Jonas Bofjall wrote: > I have a feeling that this question is very off-topic here, but in that > case I would appreciate if I am told where it is not. I installed Debian > on a computer mainly to run LaTeX, but I don't understand really what

LaTeX question?

1996-12-01 Thread Jonas Bofjall
I have a feeling that this question is very off-topic here, but in that case I would appreciate if I am told where it is not. I installed Debian on a computer mainly to run LaTeX, but I don't understand really what I need to do. I installed almost everything on the TeX disks. When I try to run late