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

Re: a LaTeX question

2007-09-03 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 you

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 useful

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 additional

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.

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 latex

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 to

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 lacking a

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 seems unique in

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 likely shall

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 recommendation. It is

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

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

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

[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

[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

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 send

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]$

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 % You can

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

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]$

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 titled

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 titled

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: 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

Re: latex question

2000-11-06 Thread Manuel Hendel
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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 you

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, Aufsichtsrat (sorry I

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 footnote contents by

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 me a hint.

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 you could

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 need to submit tomorrow morning

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 only left-justified. If you could

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} works. Probably there are better

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

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

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: 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

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: 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 entries

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{center}

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

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: 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 you mean, it

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

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 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 myself which works fine. It'll happily

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 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

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 I

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 understand

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

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