Paul wrote:
Suppose I have some text that has a lot of quoted speech in it, but it's
supplied using standard () straight single and double quotes.
Is there some pre-processing tool that will try to convert them to
proper curly quotes suitable for LaTeX (``) and ('')?
Here's some
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just wanna know:
What's worth to use, PDF (dvipdfm) or PDF (pdflatex)? And why?
In addition to the things already mentioned:
pdflatex supports some nifty microtypographical features that latex (and hence
dvipdfm) doesn't. Google for character protusion and font
Uwe Stöhr wrote:
Daniel Watkins wrote:
One thing I've noticed some documents being able to do (namely the
Beamer User Guide) is have clickable links in the ToC which
automagically move the view to the appropriate section, which I thought
was rather nifty.
Use the hyperref-package. It
Uwe Stöhr wrote:
There's also a neat script which helps with this task:
http://tex2pdf.berlios.de/lyx-howto.htm
tex2pdf doesn't help you to create links in the TOC. tex2pdf is just
another program to produce a pdf from LyX/TeX. I cannot recommend its
use. Better use the LyX menu Export -
Christofer Zwanzig wrote:
Are there any sugestions how I can solve this problem?
It will be difficult to get LyX to work with multibib. You could try
bibtopic as an alternative. Cf.
http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/BibTeX#toc2
Jürgen
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
It is a bug, but I am not sure it is in bugzilla yet.
bug 1630.
What is
especially stupid is that the empty line before \begin{quotation} is
here... Ideally, it should be possible to have the two behaviours in
LyX (separate paragraphs or not).
Yes, especially
Martin A. Hansen wrote:
how do i supply the sortcompress option correctly?
Enter it into Layout-Document-Extra Options. LaTeX will pass it through to
natbib.
Jürgen
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
I posted already a similar question;
however, is there an easy way to collect ALL footnotes throughout the book
at the END of the book without doing anything tho the footnotes themselves
(i.e. something in the preamble)?
In Preamble:
\usepackage{endnotes}
Rohnny Moland wrote:
I am using the koma-letter2 lyx template, which works very well, but I
am looking for a way to turn off the opening section, when writing
formal letters. Is this possible? I have looked at the lyx template code
but I cant find any options for it.
You can't just turn it
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanx Uwe, but putting that at my preamble, Lyx
gives me the following error:
Undefined control sequence.
\numberwithin
{figure}{section}
\numberwithin is a command of AMS math.
Alternatively, try
Marcelo Acuÿf1a wrote:
How I can get align left and hyphention?
\usepackage{ragged2e}
At the begin of the document
\RaggedRight
HTH,
Jürgen
Martin A. Hansen:
it is possible to offset change bars in a very ugly way.
1) take a piece of text
2) enable change bars
3) delete one word
4) insert a whitespace after the word before the deleted word
now, the double whitespace is collapsed by lyx when moving the curser, but
at the same
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
How to reduce the standard distance between items of the lists in a koma
book?
Have a look at the enumitem package.
Regards,
Jürgen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is a warning^H^H^H^H^H^H^H blurb that I just finally upgraded the
wiki to the new wiki engine.
neat. Once everything else is up and running, could you please replace the
ugly LyX monster in the upper left corner by a slightly less ugly one, e.g.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Done. Hmm... you don't think it's a bit big now though?
Perhaps. You could try the attached, scaled version.
I guess I could customize the skin to work better, but I suspect my time
working on the wiki is better spent on structure/content than apperance.
Certainly. I
Marcelo Acuÿf1a wrote:
\setkomafont{footnote}{\sffamily}
This works for me. Can you send a minimal example file?
Jürgen
Marcelo Acuÿf1a wrote:
How I can get sections* and Navigate Menu.
I think it's not possible, but it would be definitely desirable. Cf.
http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1982
Jürgen
Marcelo Acuÿf1a wrote:
For aesthetic and legibility. My book is on history and
is plenty of dates, numbers, and is very long.
I try to reduce hard impact in readers.
Because my book have a cronological structural, numbers
of section no add useful information for readers but
Marcelo Acuÿf1a wrote:
While I was making a minimal example file I found the origin of
problem,
This is the main reason for doing a minimal example.
this is:
\usepackage[flushmargin]{footmisc}
I put that in preamble for get an apropiate format of footnote.
But, now, I can
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
Rather than me torturing the LyX list with this, can anyone recommend a
good LaTeX list (newsgroup?) where I can get help (beginner's) for the
caption and subfigure packages?
comp.text.tex
de.comp.text.tex (German)
Jürgen
Thorsten Grothe wrote:
In tables and longtables I would like to use the mdwlist enviroments
itemize* and enumerate* with smaller spaces. Is there a layout file for lyx
putting this feature to the koma classes? I googled a lot but I did not
find anything.
Steve Litt wrote:
Any ideas how to raise the Contents header on the table of contents page?
\renewcommand{\tocheadstart}{}
or
\renewcommand{\tocheadstart}{\vspace*{any length}}
Cf. the memoir manual, sec. 10.3
HTH,
Jürgen
Jose' Matos wrote:
I want to use 14pt, but the option doesn't show up in LyX's
Layout-Document-Layout-FontSize. If I use Vim to strongarm the .lyx
file itself to \paperfontsize 14, when I View-postscript the typesize is
10, which is Memoir's default. How do I use Memoir's 14 point size?
Jose' Matos wrote:
PS: Don't you have by any chance a bag at hand? I could hide my head
there. ;-)
I'm afraid Santa took all bags along.
Jürgen
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
The package tocloft has lots of information about this (and many other
things one can do to modify the toc, lof, etc. (Actually I thought that
\cftpartnumwidth _was_ part of the tocloft package.)
It is. However, Peter Wilson, author of the tocloft package, merged this
Christian Schanz wrote:
What is the best way to insert this PDF-File into my LyX Document?
package pdfpages.
Jürgen
Steve Litt wrote:
It's too bad Peter Wilson didn't include more. I REALLY could have
used some more of the tocloft variables, especially \cftbeforetoctitleskip.
could you tell me again why this hint didn't work for you?
http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users%40lists.lyx.org/msg44197.html
Thorsten Grothe wrote:
Ok as I wrote the layout file works fine. But how can I redefine mdwlist or
any other package, to produce lists in tables without any indent? Is that
possible, like this:
text text text
- list
- list
(...)
I'm not very familar with the mdwlist package, but it is
Steve Litt wrote:
Thanks Jürgen,
I just tried both suggestions, and neither
\renewcommand{\tocheadstart}{}
nor
\renewcommand{\tocheadstart}{\vspace*{7in}}
made any difference in where the CONTENTS title started, nor did the empty
one followed by the one with the length. I tried all
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote:
I'm not very familar with the mdwlist package, but it is possible with the
enumitem package, see attached example.
If you add
\usepackage{mdwtab}
you don't need to adjust the vertical space in the tabular cell. The package
might result in side effects, though
theblond wrote:
What is the problem? How to resole it?
[...]
My setting for locale is:
LANG=hu_HU.UTF-8
does it help if you start lyx with
LANG=hu_HU lyx
(without UTF-8)?
Jürgen
Luqman H wrote:
it's really hard for me working with large table in LyX.
when i try to rotate the table, the table's caption dont rotate
so it's weird looking.
is there any simple way to work with large table?
like autoresize, autofit, or some easy way todo?
In preamble
\usepackage{rotating}
Steve Litt wrote:
Hmmm,
When I tried to view postscript on your file, I got the following error
message:
==
LaTeX Error: File `showframe.sty' not found.
\renewcommand
{\tocheadstart}{}^^M
*** (cannot \read from terminal in
Herbert Voss wrote:
this often makes no sense for small tables, because
you _always_ get a new page for this table.
Is there an alternative if you _have_ to rotate the table?
Jürgen
Herbert Voss wrote:
if you have a wide table but only a few lines, then it looks
no very well on an own page. In such a case you can use
two minipages side by side, a table or multicolums. The
table _together_ with the caption (package capt-of) is
rotated together. If both are in a minipage
theblond wrote:
Thanks Jurgen.
It works.
I have tried to convert the .po file to utf-8, but it was
not worked.
What is the difference between the two kind of LANG variable
processing in lyx?
The problem is that LyX cannot handle unicode currently, but your system uses
unicode. With the
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
I fixed this by placing -ism in a \makebox{}, but was wondering if
there might be a simpler or a LyX way (not that this was complicated,
but thought there might be an Insert - Special Character - Protected
Break or No-Hyphenation Point...
If you are using [n]german, this
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
I fixed this by placing -ism in a \makebox{}, but was wondering if
there might be a simpler or a LyX way (not that this was complicated,
but thought there might be an Insert - Special Character - Protected
Break or No-Hyphenation Point...
FYI I have filed an enhancement
Martin A. Hansen wrote:
i dont really know where to start.
i have looked at the natbib docs, but i didnt find anything.
Search for \bibpunct.
Jürgen
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
Here is another jabref related question.
The output of the article style in the References section
does not give me Capitals in the titel, except the first one. However, in
German references this is not tolerable. I am sure there is a way round in
jabref, but I dont
Rich Shepard wrote:
I've looked through the KOMA-Script guide without seeing anything on how
to change the typefaces. In Layout-Document I can specify the body
typeface and size, but not that used for the title and headings.
While I need the additional features in the KOMA classes, I much
Rich Shepard wrote:
Then I tried searching the symbol list, Google, and the TUG Tips and Tricks
web pages. Didn't find anything that looked like a solution.
Rich,
maybe the keystroke package is what you're looking for:
http://www.ctan.org/info?id=keystroke
HTH,
Jürgen
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
How do I force straight quote marks? As in: 5'-0
In LyX: String+Shift+
Jürgen
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
String = Streng ?
i.e. Ctrl+Shift+
Yes, sorry. Ctrl (Strg on my German keyboard).
Jürgen
Alexander Gahr wrote:
Also i want to use square brackets in cite
look for \bibpunct in the natbib documentation.
Jürgen
christiaan johannes pauw wrote:
Hi
I upgraded to Suse 9=2E3 and kept the same keyboard (brazilian on US) that
works with deadkeys. It works in all application except lyx.
Do you run the most recent version of LyX (1.3.7)?
Jürgen
Also sprach christiaan johannes pauw:
Hi
I run 1.3.5 that upgraded with Suse
This one has a problem with deadkeys. Please upgrade to 1.3.7:
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.3.7/lyx-1.3.7-2_suse92_suse93_qt.i586
Jürgen
P.S.: please always reply to the list.
christiaan johannes pauw wrote:
Package babel Warning: No hyphenation patterns were loaded for
(babel)the language `Afrikaans'
(babel)I will use the patterns loaded for \language=0
instead.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] = a dialect from [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You could try
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
I'm using koma-book and have renewed the commands for \chapterpagestyle
and \indexpagestyle to be empty so that no page numbers appear on the
first page. But how do I do this for the first page of the TOC and the
list of figures? I've tried a couple wild guesses and
Paul A. Rubin wrote:
From http://tug.org/TeXnik/mainFAQ.cgi?file=paragraph/margins (slightly
modified):
In the preamble, add the following:
\newenvironment{widePar}[2]%
{\begin{list}{}{\leftmargin#1\rightmargin#2}\item{}}{\end{list}}
In ERT at the start of the paragraph you want to make
Matthias Schmidt wrote:
Hallo zusammen,
Hello (this is an English writing list).
ich arbeite mich zur Zeit in Lyx auf Windwos XP ein.
Diese Frage konnte ich auch über google etc. nicht für mich erklären:
was ist die Lyx-pipe?
Basically, it's the interface which is used for communication
Stacia Hartleben wrote:
Hi there! I was messing around after looking at this tutorial
(http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/XY-pic) on how to get XY pic to work on LyX
and I got some limited tree support with xytree and TIPA working!
That's nice indeed. Even if I knew we have some provisional code for tipa
Herbert Voss wrote:
do you know the following packages?
Linguistic tree diagrams for Role and Reference Grammar (RRG)
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/rrgtrees
typesetting of trees that are common in linguistics
Stacia Hartleben wrote:
I'd be happy to make an info page on the lyx wiki, except would it
really be useful, now that 1.4 is going to get rid of the xymatrix
support? That makes me really sad :(
at least the tipa part will be useful.
Jürgen
Herbert Voss wrote:
here are some examples with code
I see that your book grew quite a bit ;-)
Jürgen
H. Peter Gumm wrote:
rumors are that LyX 1.4 is not going to support XY-Pic
anymore. I cannot believe that the developers are serious
about this. If they were, the reasons for me to use LyX
would be gone.
I guess the solution is then to stick with LyX 1.3.7 (which is a quite mature
release)
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
Here are some ideas...
1. Use package amsmath and the command \nonbreakdash
2. Use a non-breaking space.
3. \mbox{text that shouldn't be broken}
Jürgen
Rajil Saraswat wrote:
Thanks for your reply. Searching the archives, I hit on this link
(http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=lyx-usersm=113828715308692w=2) by
Herbert. I have been partially successful in using this, as still the
author is not correctly left aligned.
The problem is that the author
Rajil Saraswat wrote:
The problem is that the author is put into a centered tabular by koma
script. One hack would be to put the author (in the author environment)
in a minipage of 100% columnwidth, and put \hspace*{-\tabcolsep} before
the author's name.
This still leaves some space
John McCabe-Dansted wrote:
Hi, I've been using a4wide, which seems to behave reasonably with a4
paper, but now I am trying to get border correction (so that the inner
margin is wider than the outer)
The problem with a4wide and a4.sty is that there are several different
versions around, which
mail.k wrote:
C'mon, somebody has to know, right?
The following works for me with mathpazo:
\usepackage[osf]{mathpazo}
\newcommand{\nooldstylenums}[1]{{\fontfamily{ppl}\selectfont #1}}
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
}
The redefinition of the footnotesymbol depends on the class you are
Peter Hegt wrote:
Just wondering, I read in
ftp://tug.ctan.org/pub/tex-archive/info/l2tabu/english/l2tabuen.pdf;
that palatino.sty is outdated and should be replaced by
\usepackage{mathpazo}
\usepackage[scaled=.95]{helvet}
\usepackage{courier}
Yes, that's right.
(or some better sans
Peter Hegt wrote:
I see. That wasn't clear from the 1.3.7 docu. So let's wait for the 1.4.
I'm afraid to tell you that it won't change with 1.4 (nobody volunteered to
change it). But it's very high on my agenda for 1.5
Jürgen
Karsten Heymann wrote:
~ I'm afraid to tell you that it won't change with 1.4 (nobody
volunteered to
| change it). But it's very high on my agenda for 1.5
Finally :) Will there be a osf or sc checkbox too?
I think so. But the ui needs some careful thought (separation of Roman, Sans
and
Maria Gouskova wrote:
what do people think of starting a wiki page LyX for Linguists,
similar to LaTeX for linguists?
I started such a page, using some of your text:
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LinguistLyX
Now it just needs to be filled with information.
(It'd probably be good to use separate
Stacia Hartleben wrote:
I added a few things to the Wiki. Feel free to flesh it out if you
want and add new things (I don't do any optimality theory for examples
so I won't be writing anything related to it)
Well done.
I have edited the TIPA documentation. Most notably, xytree is not needed at
Maria Gouskova wrote:
on a related note... i have a bit of a problem with trees that
contain greek letters (for syllables and moraic structure, for example):
sigma
/ \
mu mu
this should be easy to do, but for some reason lyx freezes when i try
to typeset. i use lyx 1.3.7 and mac
Stacia Hartleben wrote:
Did anyone find out how to make it so glosses go under the nodes on
the tree - usually with the // command?
I think you have to fool mathed. The following hack works for me (the
mathematicians might come up with a better solution):
In preamble:
Paul Schwartz wrote:
finally when I select English in the format of the document, I still can
type in French language including the French accentuations, display the
text in pdf (pdflatex) and insert images without problem.
Shall i understand that language=French is just a matter of
Stacia Hartleben wrote:
Hmm, been trying to use some IPA in documents - does anyone else have
the problem that when instant preview is used and you can see the IPA,
the formatting of the document is really weird (as in, you can't put
it inside a large amount of text, there is a very large gap
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote:
I see this, too. Seems to be a bug in the preview generation.
It looks like the additional space only is inserted if you use an opening
bracket [. Can you confirm this?
Jürgen
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote:
I see this, too. Seems to be a bug in the preview generation.
It looks like the additional space only is inserted if you use an opening
bracket [. Can you confirm this?
And the good news is that the problem seems to have disappeared in forthcoming
LyX 1.4
Jürgen
Marcelo Acuña wrote:
Thanks Jürgen, I posted the problem to
es.comp.lenguajes.tex and I get a solution
but this work in Kile and not work in Lyx.
Is not global but simple.
A person in that list say that
after put \usepackage[spanish]{babel}
in preamble I must put a tilde (~)
prev to em
Marcelo Acuña wrote:
I inteded this with a little file and ~ in an ERT
no work. I put ~, or \~, ~---, and several others
variants and I can´t get that one work.
What I make bad?
Didn't you read my post? It won't work in LyX because the line
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
to the preamble if Spanish is
Helge Hafting wrote:
This deavtivation of ~ can be fixed in lyx, but expact that to take
some time.
I doubt it will be fixed, because it is a fix itself.
In the meantime, this can probably be fixed by
defining a converter.
An easier solution is to remove the extra line in the file
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote:
But note that this will trigger the bug which has been fixed by this line,
i.e. ~ in ERT is not a protected space, but an active character.
protected space will be broken in general, to be precise. I.e., foo_na (where
_ is a protected space) will result in fooña
Subir Singh Lamba wrote:
I am using tar file and compiling with the following command
./configure --with-frontend=xforms
Before this I have installed
libforms-1.0-release
You'll also need to install
libforms-devel-1.0
(or however it is called on your system).
Jürgen
Curtis Osterhoudt wrote:
Now, for the nitty-gritty: I'm using the qt frontend on debian
unstable. LyX 1.4 (and the 1.4-pre-series) compiles and installs just fine
from source. If I want to used /boxed{} (I use ERT) around some sort of
math expression, LyX doesn't display things correctly, and
Julio Rojas wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
This is the problem. Clash of active character definition.
Does it work if you put the attached languages file in your $HOME$/.lyx
directory?
If I remove this line and recompile it manualy using latex, bibtex,
latex, latex the output is perfect.
Julio Rojas wrote:
I don't have a .lyx directory, so I created it a moved the languages file
there.
You must have one. Help-About LyX tells you where (User directory).
Please try again by moving the file there.
Jürgen
Am Freitag, 10. März 2006 11:20 schrieb Julio Rojas:
Almost perfect!!! No errors now, but instead of the author in the
quotations, appears a ?.
Can you run LyX from the console and see if there are any bibtex warnings?
Jürgen
Also sprach Julio Rojas:
I saw what the problem was. A bad reference to the bibtex file. Everything
now runs smoothly!!! The only thing is, I believe, Jurabib related. My
document is in spanish, but in the bibliography appears the english word
in instead of the spanish word en when I quote an
Julio Rojas wrote:
Sure... Here are the test tex and bib files and pdf output. You can
see the word in instead of en:
...Prólogo In Segundo...
I see. This special word is still hardcoded (not translatable) in jurabib
v.0.6. You can find an hardcoded In in jurabib.bst under FUNCTION
{inbook}
Russell Davie wrote:
when Lyx is compiled to make a pdf, Lyx inserts a % in the end of a
hypertext reference!
the source and output are here:
http://home.exetel.com.au/randombits/lyx/lyx.html
how can this be fixed?
Place one (or several) blanks in the url, preferably after the slashes.
Russell Davie wrote:
now is this a fault with bibtex, or latex? or what?
It's a bibtex bug AFAIK. It seems to occur when a long URL has to be broken
across lines.
and how can this be automatically done?, so a then a file of medline bibtex
url refs don't have to be edited
I'm sure it can
Nicholas Allen wrote:
I hope someone can help me. I am trying to import a text file that
contains German accented characters. The file is saved in UTF-8 format.
How do I do this? If I use the import ASCII the accented characters
appear as two junk characters. However, I can type the characters
Marcelo Acuña wrote:
How do you change the alignment of the enumerate
environment? i.e. when I get to the roman numerals
numbering depth I find the number/label alignment is
to the right of the numeral which is not good for
readability.
With tweaklist package you get control over
Also sprach Jeoffrey Young:
thanks for the reply, will those work if I were just
inheriting the article class and just tweaking some of
its defined environments?
Yes. Please read the documentation for details.
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/enumitem/
Jürgen
Ernesto Posse wrote:
Basically the problem is that the table of contents doesn't seem to
work at all for beamer documents that I create, but strangely enough,
it does seem to work with the templates included in the beamer class.
I'm attaching a sample file with the problem.
Any clues?
John Pye wrote:
Hi all
It seems to me that the nifty middle-click trick for pasting text into
tables is broken in the latest LyX, version 1.4.
Yes, this is broken. I could have sworn that we have a bug report for this,
but I don't seem to find it. Could you please file a report on bugzilla?
Peter Bowyer wrote:
I'd like to know if it's possible to style the Quote and Quotation
styles further? In other words, to get a different font and
automated quotation marks around the blocks? Currently my Quotes
look like indented blocks of my text.
You can do that (just redefine the quote
Stacia Hartleben wrote:
IPA preview (but ERT works fine)
Works for me. Note however, that the way of inserting slightly changed. You
have to type
\text{\textipa{...}}
or hit C-M twice to get in text mode.
1.3 automatically converted \textipa to text mode. This is not the case
anymore in 1.4,
Nagy Gabor wrote:
And how can I cure it?
I use (in the preamble):
\tolerance 1414
\hbadness 1414
\emergencystretch 1.5em
\hfuzz 0.3pt
\widowpenalty = 1
\vfuzz \hfuzz
\raggedbottom
Cf.
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=widows
HTH,
Jürgen
Charlie wrote:
I must have overlooked something, but find I am unable to copy and paste
text from Lyx to my email program [kmail] simple or advanced text
editors[kedit, kate]? But can copy to Openoffice.org, and then into the
above. Is there are simple straight from Lyx way?
Which version of
Oisin C. Feeley wrote:
Does anyone know how I can stop bibliographic entries in the reference list
from breaking across pages? (I'm using the natbib package).
Try
\interlinepenalty=1
in ERT, immediately before the grey Bibtex References box.
HTH,
Jürgen
Also sprach Charlie:
LyX Version 1.3.4 of Thu, Feb 19, 2004
Please update to 1.3.7 (if you do not want to use the new major version 1.4).
What you encountered is a bug that has been fixed sometime after 1.3.4
Jürgen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I use 1.3.6 and copy from LyX works.
Here is how I do it and it is pretty easy, except the 3. step, maybe:
This is the bug I talked about. It has been fixed in LyX 1.3.7. Cf.
http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1976
Jürgen
Oisin C. Feeley wrote:
Thanks Juergen! That did it. Can I post your response to a couple of
other places? I asked on comp.text.tex and I'd like to post your solution
on that in case someone else is tracking it.
Sure. It's no mental property (and of course not my invention).
But I'm sure
Stephen Harris wrote:
Perhaps putting it
on the LyX Wiki is a good idea?
I'll second that. Nick or Stephen, please put it here:
http://wiki.lyx.org/Tools/Tools
Jürgen
Bo Peng wrote:
When I use the rotate 90 degree option of table. The table is rotated,
but not its caption.
In LyX 1.4, right-click on the float and check rotate sidewards in the float
dialog.
Jürgen
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