> I dropped by to share my latex preamble. It gives cards about the
> right width, easy enough to read, tiny margins, etc. Might save you
> some hassle.
>
> \documentclass[12pt]{article}
> \pagestyle{empty}
> \usepackage{amsmath}
> \usepackage{amssymb}
>
> \usepackage[paperwidth=3in]{geometry}
>
> \setlength{\parindent}{0em}
>
> \begin{document}
>
> \tiny
>
> Cheers,
> Joe
>Thank you for this. Where does one add such preamble for mnemosyne? Which file would I modify? Or do you include this as code on each card? I didn't see the post that finally made things work until late last night & so haven't had a chance to start playing around yet, but didn't realize any (additional?) preamble was necessary. Very excited! - Abel > On Oct 18, 10:19 pm, "G." <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > UNBELIEVABLE. hahaha! That's pretty much the funniest end to this > > absurd escapade I could have imagined. Indeed, after opening Mnemosyne > > via Terminal, it compiles latex code properly! > > > I wish I understood the details of what you wrote earlier, because I > > would be happy to spend some time looking at this so as to find a more > > reasonable (?) solution, but I really wouldn't know where to begin. > > > Do you have any suggestions as to 'first steps' with the command line? > > After all of this, I feel it would be well worth while to become > > further acquainted, but I've yet to find a good means of > > introduction . . . > > > At any rate, thank you (all of you) for helping me with this. > > Mnemosyne is a wonderful bit of software & is helping me in all my > > classes from classical Arabic to quantum field theory. I hope > > eventually I will be able to contribute usefully to the forum. > > > All the best, > > > Abel. > > > On Oct 18, 10:34 pm, Oisín <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > 2009/10/19 Oisín <[email protected]>: > > > > > In the midst of examining this and restarting Mnemosyne a couple of > > > > times, it suddenly stopped working for me too! > > > > Oh I see now. When I first checked that Latex was working correctly > > > with Mnemosyne, I ran the program by doing 'open > > > /Applications/Mnemosyne.app' from a Terminal prompt. This gave it an > > > environment with a properly set PATH variable. > > > Running it outside of Terminal (i.e. from Spotlight/Finder) doesn't work. > > > > Bizarrely, after running it from Terminal, seeing correct output and > > > quitting, starting it after that from Spotlight or Finder works for me > > > (but not for IDLE, a Python IDE). > > > > Extremely confusing, but at least for me, a workaround is to start > > > Mnemosyne from the command prompt if I've not done so since boot... > > > Raises a few questions about either Mac Python or Leopard's method of > > > setting $PATH for programs that run outside of Terminal. > > > > Oisín --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mnemosyne-proj-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
