Re: New letter example using Koma-Script

2008-07-10 Thread Jean-Marie Pacquet
Christian Ridderström a écrit : Hi, Thanks to Rich Shepard, I've put up an example of how to do a 'business'-like letter with Koma-Script using LyX here: http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/KomaLetter2 Feel free to use it as you like, and if you know something about Koma-Script, please tell

New letter example using Koma-Script

2008-07-10 Thread Christian Ridderström
Hi, Thanks to Rich Shepard, I've put up an example of how to do a 'business'-like letter with Koma-Script using LyX here: http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/KomaLetter2 Feel free to use it as you like, and if you know something about Koma-Script, please tell me about any mis-use

Re: New letter example using Koma-Script

2008-07-10 Thread Jean-Marie Pacquet
Christian Ridderström a écrit : Hi, Thanks to Rich Shepard, I've put up an example of how to do a 'business'-like letter with Koma-Script using LyX here: http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/KomaLetter2 Feel free to use it as you like, and if you know something about Koma-Script, please tell

printing letter size

2008-06-15 Thread Adrian Peter
Hi, I am having some minor problems with my margin settings. In the preamble I have the following line to make my document 1in margins throughout for letter size paper: \usepackage[letterpaper,hmargin=1in,vmargin=1in]{geometry} However, when I export to PDF using dvipdfm I get pages

Re: printing letter size

2008-06-15 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 4:52 PM, Adrian Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am having some minor problems with my margin settings. In the preamble I have the following line to make my document 1in margins throughout for letter size paper: \usepackage[letterpaper,hmargin=1in,vmargin=1in

printing letter size

2008-06-15 Thread Adrian Peter
Hi, I am having some minor problems with my margin settings. In the preamble I have the following line to make my document 1in margins throughout for letter size paper: \usepackage[letterpaper,hmargin=1in,vmargin=1in]{geometry} However, when I export to PDF using dvipdfm I get pages

Re: printing letter size

2008-06-15 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 4:52 PM, Adrian Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am having some minor problems with my margin settings. In the preamble I have the following line to make my document 1in margins throughout for letter size paper: \usepackage[letterpaper,hmargin=1in,vmargin=1in

printing letter size

2008-06-15 Thread Adrian Peter
Hi, I am having some minor problems with my margin settings. In the preamble I have the following line to make my document 1in margins throughout for letter size paper: \usepackage[letterpaper,hmargin=1in,vmargin=1in]{geometry} However, when I export to PDF using dvipdfm I get pages

Re: printing letter size

2008-06-15 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 4:52 PM, Adrian Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am having some minor problems with my margin settings. In the preamble I > have the following line to make my document 1in margins throughout for > letter size paper: > \usepackage[letterp

Re: Trying to get pdflatex to produce letter size page with outline fonts...

2008-05-06 Thread Helge Hafting
David A. Case wrote: On Fri, May 02, 2008, snvv wrote: You may try the geometry package. Then you may define the page in all possible ways From the users' perspective, this is what happens: 1. an article with Document-Page layout set to US Letter (and Document-Page Margins is set

Re: Trying to get pdflatex to produce letter size page with outline fonts...

2008-05-06 Thread Helge Hafting
David A. Case wrote: On Fri, May 02, 2008, snvv wrote: You may try the geometry package. Then you may define the page in all possible ways From the users' perspective, this is what happens: 1. an article with Document-Page layout set to US Letter (and Document-Page Margins is set

Re: Trying to get pdflatex to produce letter size page with outline fonts...

2008-05-06 Thread Helge Hafting
David A. Case wrote: On Fri, May 02, 2008, snvv wrote: You may try the geometry package. Then you may define the page in all possible ways From the users' perspective, this is what happens: 1. an article with Document->Page layout set to "US Letter" (and Document-

Re: Trying to get pdflatex to produce letter size page with outline fonts...

2008-05-02 Thread Daniel Lohmann
. I selected View PDF (pdflatex), and then looked at the resulting document in Evince. It seems to have two problems (as least, problems for me). First, the paper size is A4, and I would prefer Letter. Second, it seems to be using bitmap fonts (Postscript Type 3, I think), rather than outline

Re: Trying to get pdflatex to produce letter size page with outline fonts...

2008-05-02 Thread snvv
at the resulting document in Evince. It seems to have two problems (as least, problems for me). First, the paper size is A4, and I would prefer Letter. Second, it seems to be using bitmap fonts (Postscript Type 3, I think), rather than outline fonts. I tried to fix the A4 problem by setting

Re: Trying to get pdflatex to produce letter size page with outline fonts...

2008-05-02 Thread David A. Case
On Fri, May 02, 2008, snvv wrote: You may try the geometry package. Then you may define the page in all possible ways From the users' perspective, this is what happens: 1. an article with Document-Page layout set to US Letter (and Document-Page Margins is set to default) is likely to come out

Re: Trying to get pdflatex to produce letter size page with outline fonts...

2008-05-02 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 2 May 2008, David A. Case wrote: 1. an article with Document-Page layout set to US Letter (and Document-Page Margins is set to default) is likely to come out of pdflatex as A4 (unless, unlike me, you know enough LaTeX configuration stuff to configure pdflatex to do something different

Re: Trying to get pdflatex to produce letter size page with outline fonts...

2008-05-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 2 May 2008, David A. Case wrote: 1. an article with Document-Page layout set to US Letter (and Document-Page Margins is set to default) is likely to come out of pdflatex as A4 (unless, unlike me, you know enough LaTeX configuration stuff to configure pdflatex

Re: Trying to get pdflatex to produce letter size page with outline fonts...

2008-05-02 Thread Daniel Lohmann
. I selected View PDF (pdflatex), and then looked at the resulting document in Evince. It seems to have two problems (as least, problems for me). First, the paper size is A4, and I would prefer Letter. Second, it seems to be using bitmap fonts (Postscript Type 3, I think), rather than outline

Re: Trying to get pdflatex to produce letter size page with outline fonts...

2008-05-02 Thread snvv
at the resulting document in Evince. It seems to have two problems (as least, problems for me). First, the paper size is A4, and I would prefer Letter. Second, it seems to be using bitmap fonts (Postscript Type 3, I think), rather than outline fonts. I tried to fix the A4 problem by setting

Re: Trying to get pdflatex to produce letter size page with outline fonts...

2008-05-02 Thread David A. Case
On Fri, May 02, 2008, snvv wrote: You may try the geometry package. Then you may define the page in all possible ways From the users' perspective, this is what happens: 1. an article with Document-Page layout set to US Letter (and Document-Page Margins is set to default) is likely to come out

Re: Trying to get pdflatex to produce letter size page with outline fonts...

2008-05-02 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 2 May 2008, David A. Case wrote: 1. an article with Document-Page layout set to US Letter (and Document-Page Margins is set to default) is likely to come out of pdflatex as A4 (unless, unlike me, you know enough LaTeX configuration stuff to configure pdflatex to do something different

Re: Trying to get pdflatex to produce letter size page with outline fonts...

2008-05-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 2 May 2008, David A. Case wrote: 1. an article with Document-Page layout set to US Letter (and Document-Page Margins is set to default) is likely to come out of pdflatex as A4 (unless, unlike me, you know enough LaTeX configuration stuff to configure pdflatex

Re: Trying to get pdflatex to produce letter size page with outline fonts...

2008-05-02 Thread Daniel Lohmann
. I selected View > PDF (pdflatex), and then looked at the resulting document in Evince. It seems to have two problems (as least, problems for me). First, the paper size is A4, and I would prefer Letter. Second, it seems to be using bitmap fonts (Postscript Type 3, I think), rather t

Re: Trying to get pdflatex to produce letter size page with outline fonts...

2008-05-02 Thread snvv
View > PDF (pdflatex), and then > looked at the resulting document in Evince. It seems to have two problems > (as least, problems for me). First, the paper size is A4, and I would > prefer Letter. Second, it seems to be using bitmap fonts (Postscript Type > 3, I think), rather than outline f

Re: Trying to get pdflatex to produce letter size page with outline fonts...

2008-05-02 Thread David A. Case
On Fri, May 02, 2008, snvv wrote: > You may try the geometry package. Then you may define the page in all > possible ways >From the users' perspective, this is what happens: 1. an article with Document->Page layout set to "US Letter" (and Document->Page Margins is se

Re: Trying to get pdflatex to produce letter size page with outline fonts...

2008-05-02 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 2 May 2008, David A. Case wrote: 1. an article with Document->Page layout set to "US Letter" (and Document->Page Margins is set to "default") is likely to come out of pdflatex as A4 (unless, unlike me, you know enough LaTeX configuration stuff to configur

Re: Trying to get pdflatex to produce letter size page with outline fonts...

2008-05-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 2 May 2008, David A. Case wrote: 1. an article with Document->Page layout set to "US Letter" (and Document->Page Margins is set to "default") is likely to come out of pdflatex as A4 (unless, unlike me, you know enough LaTeX config

Trying to get pdflatex to produce letter size page with outline fonts...

2008-05-01 Thread adam_taylor
at the resulting document in Evince. It seems to have two problems (as least, problems for me). First, the paper size is A4, and I would prefer Letter. Second, it seems to be using bitmap fonts (Postscript Type 3, I think), rather than outline fonts. I tried to fix the A4 problem by setting the paper

Trying to get pdflatex to produce letter size page with outline fonts...

2008-05-01 Thread adam_taylor
at the resulting document in Evince. It seems to have two problems (as least, problems for me). First, the paper size is A4, and I would prefer Letter. Second, it seems to be using bitmap fonts (Postscript Type 3, I think), rather than outline fonts. I tried to fix the A4 problem by setting the paper

Trying to get pdflatex to produce letter size page with outline fonts...

2008-05-01 Thread adam_taylor
ked at the resulting document in Evince. It seems to have two problems (as least, problems for me). First, the paper size is A4, and I would prefer Letter. Second, it seems to be using bitmap fonts (Postscript Type 3, I think), rather than outline fonts. I tried to fix the A4 problem by sett

Re: Koma Letter 2 Components Sequence

2008-02-17 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
the header down. Instead of inserting such things in the letter, _always_ use KOMA's length values. In this case, something like % vertical position of the address field [EMAIL PROTECTED] in preamble should do.    Reading Chapter 4 in the KOMA-Script manual (on scrpage2), I see no way

Re: Koma Letter 2 Components Sequence

2008-02-17 Thread Rich Shepard
instead, which puts the header down. Jürgen, Ah. After getting the letterhead graphic displayed properly the text had to be moved lower on the page. Instead of inserting such things in the letter, _always_ use KOMA's length values. In this case, something like % vertical position of the address

Re: Koma Letter 2 Components Sequence

2008-02-17 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
the header down. Instead of inserting such things in the letter, _always_ use KOMA's length values. In this case, something like % vertical position of the address field [EMAIL PROTECTED] in preamble should do.    Reading Chapter 4 in the KOMA-Script manual (on scrpage2), I see no way

Re: Koma Letter 2 Components Sequence

2008-02-17 Thread Rich Shepard
instead, which puts the header down. Jürgen, Ah. After getting the letterhead graphic displayed properly the text had to be moved lower on the page. Instead of inserting such things in the letter, _always_ use KOMA's length values. In this case, something like % vertical position of the address

Re: Koma Letter 2 Components Sequence

2008-02-17 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
the heading, but a \vspace instead, which puts the header down. Instead of inserting such things in the letter, _always_ use KOMA's length values. In this case, something like % vertical position of the address field [EMAIL PROTECTED] in preamble should do. >    Reading Chapter 4 in the KOMA-Scr

Re: Koma Letter 2 Components Sequence

2008-02-17 Thread Rich Shepard
ading, but a \vspace instead, which puts the header down. Jürgen, Ah. After getting the letterhead graphic displayed properly the text had to be moved lower on the page. Instead of inserting such things in the letter, _always_ use KOMA's length values. In this case, something like

Re: Koma Letter 2 Components Sequence

2008-02-16 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Rich Shepard wrote: \pagestyle{myheadings}\markboth{Dr. V.N. Rai\\Page {\pagenumber}\\February 11, 2008}    The addressee and data are explicit because I don't yet know how to specify those with variables. \usekomavar (see below)    The error when trying to compile with pdflatex is:

Re: Koma Letter 2 Components Sequence

2008-02-16 Thread Rich Shepard
\renewcommand*{\raggedsignature}{} \makeatletter % vertical position of ref line (date) [EMAIL PROTECTED] % space between ref line and letter text [EMAIL PROTECTED] % space for signature image [EMAIL PROTECTED] \makeatother \firsthead{\centering\usekomavar{fromlogo}\hspace*{5cm}} \usepackage{scrpage2

Re: Koma Letter 2 Components Sequence

2008-02-16 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Rich Shepard wrote: \pagestyle{myheadings}\markboth{Dr. V.N. Rai\\Page {\pagenumber}\\February 11, 2008}    The addressee and data are explicit because I don't yet know how to specify those with variables. \usekomavar (see below)    The error when trying to compile with pdflatex is:

Re: Koma Letter 2 Components Sequence

2008-02-16 Thread Rich Shepard
\renewcommand*{\raggedsignature}{} \makeatletter % vertical position of ref line (date) [EMAIL PROTECTED] % space between ref line and letter text [EMAIL PROTECTED] % space for signature image [EMAIL PROTECTED] \makeatother \firsthead{\centering\usekomavar{fromlogo}\hspace*{5cm}} \usepackage{scrpage2

Re: Koma Letter 2 Components Sequence

2008-02-16 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Rich Shepard wrote: > \pagestyle{myheadings}\markboth{Dr. V.N. Rai\\Page {\pagenumber}\\February > 11, 2008} > >    The addressee and data are explicit because I don't yet know how to > specify those with variables. \usekomavar (see below) >    The error when trying to compile with pdflatex is:

Re: Koma Letter 2 Components Sequence

2008-02-16 Thread Rich Shepard
ECTED] \makeatother \renewcommand*{\raggedsignature}{} \makeatletter % vertical position of ref line (date) [EMAIL PROTECTED] % space between ref line and letter text [EMAIL PROTECTED] % space for signature image [EMAIL PROTECTED] \makeatother \firsthead{\centering\usekomavar{fromlogo}\hspace*{5cm}} \

Koma Letter 2 Components Sequence

2008-02-15 Thread Rich Shepard
While I'm learning how to use the Koma-Script Letter2 class for my correspondence, I should learn why the component sequence is the way it is, and how to work with this order. What should I read? (Kopka and Daly explain how to use the letter class, but not the details of what goes

Re: Koma Letter 2 Components Sequence

2008-02-15 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Rich Shepard wrote: Perhaps I missed this in the Koma-script manual. If so, please pass me a pointer to the proper chapter. Sec. 6.3.2. (scrlttr2 uses the scrpage2 package for the headings, which is also described in the KOMA manual). Jürgen

Re: Koma Letter 2 Components Sequence

2008-02-15 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Sec. 6.3.2. (scrlttr2 uses the scrpage2 package for the headings, which is also described in the KOMA manual). Jürgen, I read that the scrpage2 package is used, but neglected to read that documentation. I'll correct this today. Thank you

Re: Koma Letter 2 Components Sequence

2008-02-15 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
the graphic with your sig via Insert-Graphics in the Signature paragraph, before your typed signature, and add a soft line break (Ctlr-return). (don't forget to add a Closing at the bottom of the letter. Else, the signature won't be printed). Jürgen

Re: Koma Letter 2 Components Sequence

2008-02-15 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Sec. 6.3.2. (scrlttr2 uses the scrpage2 package for the headings, which is also described in the KOMA manual). Jürgen, Re-read that and Chapter 4 on scrpage2. I'm still missing something in my understanding. After the 'opening' style I have

Koma Letter 2 Components Sequence

2008-02-15 Thread Rich Shepard
While I'm learning how to use the Koma-Script Letter2 class for my correspondence, I should learn why the component sequence is the way it is, and how to work with this order. What should I read? (Kopka and Daly explain how to use the letter class, but not the details of what goes

Re: Koma Letter 2 Components Sequence

2008-02-15 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Rich Shepard wrote: Perhaps I missed this in the Koma-script manual. If so, please pass me a pointer to the proper chapter. Sec. 6.3.2. (scrlttr2 uses the scrpage2 package for the headings, which is also described in the KOMA manual). Jürgen

Re: Koma Letter 2 Components Sequence

2008-02-15 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Sec. 6.3.2. (scrlttr2 uses the scrpage2 package for the headings, which is also described in the KOMA manual). Jürgen, I read that the scrpage2 package is used, but neglected to read that documentation. I'll correct this today. Thank you

Re: Koma Letter 2 Components Sequence

2008-02-15 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
the graphic with your sig via Insert-Graphics in the Signature paragraph, before your typed signature, and add a soft line break (Ctlr-return). (don't forget to add a Closing at the bottom of the letter. Else, the signature won't be printed). Jürgen

Re: Koma Letter 2 Components Sequence

2008-02-15 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Sec. 6.3.2. (scrlttr2 uses the scrpage2 package for the headings, which is also described in the KOMA manual). Jürgen, Re-read that and Chapter 4 on scrpage2. I'm still missing something in my understanding. After the 'opening' style I have

Koma Letter 2 Components Sequence

2008-02-15 Thread Rich Shepard
While I'm learning how to use the Koma-Script Letter2 class for my correspondence, I should learn why the component sequence is the way it is, and how to work with this order. What should I read? (Kopka and Daly explain how to use the letter class, but not the details of what goes

Re: Koma Letter 2 Components Sequence

2008-02-15 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Rich Shepard wrote: > Perhaps I missed this in the Koma-script manual. If so, please pass me a > pointer to the proper chapter. Sec. 6.3.2. (scrlttr2 uses the scrpage2 package for the headings, which is also described in the KOMA manual). Jürgen

Re: Koma Letter 2 Components Sequence

2008-02-15 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Sec. 6.3.2. (scrlttr2 uses the scrpage2 package for the headings, which is also described in the KOMA manual). Jürgen, I read that the scrpage2 package is used, but neglected to read that documentation. I'll correct this today. Thank you

Re: Koma Letter 2 Components Sequence

2008-02-15 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
insert the graphic with your sig via Insert->Graphics in the Signature paragraph, before your typed signature, and add a soft line break (Ctlr-return). (don't forget to add a Closing at the bottom of the letter. Else, the signature won't be printed). Jürgen

Re: Koma Letter 2 Components Sequence

2008-02-15 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Sec. 6.3.2. (scrlttr2 uses the scrpage2 package for the headings, which is also described in the KOMA manual). Jürgen, Re-read that and Chapter 4 on scrpage2. I'm still missing something in my understanding. After the 'opening' style I have

Re: Koma letter: make first page longer

2008-02-09 Thread Jean-Marie Pacquet
Laurent Duperval a écrit : Hi, I noticed that the first page of a Koma letter2 is shorter than the rest of the pages. How can I make it be the same length? The reason I want this is because I have two lines of text on the second page of a two-page letter. I want it all on the first page

Re: Koma letter: make first page longer

2008-02-09 Thread Jean-Marie Pacquet
Laurent Duperval a écrit : Hi, I noticed that the first page of a Koma letter2 is shorter than the rest of the pages. How can I make it be the same length? The reason I want this is because I have two lines of text on the second page of a two-page letter. I want it all on the first page

Re: Koma letter: make first page longer

2008-02-09 Thread Jean-Marie Pacquet
Laurent Duperval a écrit : Hi, I noticed that the first page of a Koma letter2 is shorter than the rest of the pages. How can I make it be the same length? The reason I want this is because I have two lines of text on the second page of a two-page letter. I want it all on the first page

Koma letter: make first page longer

2008-02-08 Thread Laurent Duperval
Hi, I noticed that the first page of a Koma letter2 is shorter than the rest of the pages. How can I make it be the same length? The reason I want this is because I have two lines of text on the second page of a two-page letter. I want it all on the first page, and it looks like it should fit

Koma letter: make first page longer

2008-02-08 Thread Laurent Duperval
Hi, I noticed that the first page of a Koma letter2 is shorter than the rest of the pages. How can I make it be the same length? The reason I want this is because I have two lines of text on the second page of a two-page letter. I want it all on the first page, and it looks like it should fit

Koma letter: make first page longer

2008-02-08 Thread Laurent Duperval
Hi, I noticed that the first page of a Koma letter2 is shorter than the rest of the pages. How can I make it be the same length? The reason I want this is because I have two lines of text on the second page of a two-page letter. I want it all on the first page, and it looks like it should fit

Letter of application

2007-12-22 Thread Antonio José Guirao Sánchez
Dear all, I have to write a letter of application for a postdoctoral position and I would like to know if there is some especial layout for such a thing. I know that there are several layouts for letters but I'd rather use some especial one. Thanks in advance. Merry Christmas

Letter of application

2007-12-22 Thread Antonio José Guirao Sánchez
Dear all, I have to write a letter of application for a postdoctoral position and I would like to know if there is some especial layout for such a thing. I know that there are several layouts for letters but I'd rather use some especial one. Thanks in advance. Merry Christmas

Letter of application

2007-12-22 Thread Antonio José Guirao Sánchez
Dear all, I have to write a letter of application for a postdoctoral position and I would like to know if there is some especial layout for such a thing. I know that there are several layouts for letters but I'd rather use some especial one. Thanks in advance. Merry Christmas

Adding footnotes in letter (Koma Script) version 2

2007-11-23 Thread Graham Smith
I am trying to add a foot note to the text in the sender name environment of the above. Is this this possible? I can add the footnote but it doesn't appear as a footer. Lyx1.5.2 on WInXPPro Thanks, Graham --

Adding footnotes in letter (Koma Script) version 2

2007-11-23 Thread Graham Smith
I am trying to add a foot note to the text in the sender name environment of the above. Is this this possible? I can add the footnote but it doesn't appear as a footer. Lyx1.5.2 on WInXPPro Thanks, Graham --

Adding footnotes in letter (Koma Script) version 2

2007-11-23 Thread Graham Smith
I am trying to add a foot note to the text in the sender name environment of the above. Is this this possible? I can add the footnote but it doesn't appear as a footer. Lyx1.5.2 on WInXPPro Thanks, Graham --

Re: letter layout

2007-11-17 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 11/16/07, Ernesto Posse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would be nice if the documentation described these dependencies. I did't find anything about it. Help Tutorial 3.2 3.2 Templates: Writing a Letter has some information on the use of this class. Regards, Liviu

Re: letter layout

2007-11-17 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 11/16/07, Ernesto Posse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would be nice if the documentation described these dependencies. I did't find anything about it. Help Tutorial 3.2 3.2 Templates: Writing a Letter has some information on the use of this class. Regards, Liviu

Re: letter layout

2007-11-17 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 11/16/07, Ernesto Posse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It would be nice if the documentation described these dependencies. I > did't find anything about it. "Help > Tutorial > 3.2 3.2 Templates: Writing a Letter" has some information on the use of this class. Regards, Liviu

letter layout

2007-11-16 Thread Ernesto Posse
I'm trying to use the standard letter layout but when I compile I get a message saying that \opening is an undefined control sequence, yet, letter.cls is installed and latex and lyx are both able to find it. Is this a bug? PS: I'm running LyX 1.5.2 on Vista, with MiKTeX 2.6. -- Ernesto Posse

Re: letter layout

2007-11-16 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 11/16/07, Ernesto Posse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to use the standard letter layout but when I compile I get a message saying that \opening is an undefined control sequence, This may be irrelevant, but are you using the letter template shipped with LyX? One thing I know

Re: letter layout

2007-11-16 Thread Ernesto Posse
to fix the problem. It would be nice if the documentation described these dependencies. I did't find anything about it. On Nov 16, 2007 3:51 PM, Liviu Andronic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/16/07, Ernesto Posse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to use the standard letter layout but when I

letter layout

2007-11-16 Thread Ernesto Posse
I'm trying to use the standard letter layout but when I compile I get a message saying that \opening is an undefined control sequence, yet, letter.cls is installed and latex and lyx are both able to find it. Is this a bug? PS: I'm running LyX 1.5.2 on Vista, with MiKTeX 2.6. -- Ernesto Posse

Re: letter layout

2007-11-16 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 11/16/07, Ernesto Posse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to use the standard letter layout but when I compile I get a message saying that \opening is an undefined control sequence, This may be irrelevant, but are you using the letter template shipped with LyX? One thing I know

Re: letter layout

2007-11-16 Thread Ernesto Posse
to fix the problem. It would be nice if the documentation described these dependencies. I did't find anything about it. On Nov 16, 2007 3:51 PM, Liviu Andronic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/16/07, Ernesto Posse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to use the standard letter layout but when I

letter layout

2007-11-16 Thread Ernesto Posse
I'm trying to use the standard letter layout but when I compile I get a message saying that "\opening" is an undefined control sequence, yet, letter.cls is installed and latex and lyx are both able to find it. Is this a bug? PS: I'm running LyX 1.5.2 on Vista, with MiKTeX 2.6. -- Ern

Re: letter layout

2007-11-16 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 11/16/07, Ernesto Posse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to use the standard letter layout but when I compile I get > a message saying that "\opening" is an undefined control sequence, This may be irrelevant, but are you using the letter template shipped with

Re: letter layout

2007-11-16 Thread Ernesto Posse
to fix the problem. It would be nice if the documentation described these dependencies. I did't find anything about it. On Nov 16, 2007 3:51 PM, Liviu Andronic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/16/07, Ernesto Posse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm trying to use the s

Re: French conventions: hacking the letter class

2007-10-22 Thread Liviu Andronic
Well, I finally hacked it myself all the way. It was trivial. I simply replaced [EMAIL PROTECTED]@{}}% \toname\\ \toaddress \end{tabular}\par by these lines taken from the original letter class [EMAIL PROTECTED] \toname\\ \toaddress \\*[2\parskip]% [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: French conventions: hacking the letter class

2007-10-22 Thread Liviu Andronic
Well, I finally hacked it myself all the way. It was trivial. I simply replaced [EMAIL PROTECTED]@{}}% \toname\\ \toaddress \end{tabular}\par by these lines taken from the original letter class [EMAIL PROTECTED] \toname\\ \toaddress \\*[2\parskip]% [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: French conventions: hacking the letter class

2007-10-22 Thread Liviu Andronic
Well, I finally hacked it myself all the way. It was trivial. I simply replaced > [EMAIL PROTECTED]@{}}% > \toname\\ \toaddress > \end{tabular}\par by these lines taken from the original letter class [EMAIL PROTECTED] \toname\\ \toaddress \\*[2\parskip]% [EMAIL

French conventions: hacking the letter class

2007-10-20 Thread Liviu Andronic
file for the lettre class [1] (Letters and faxes in French), but failed miserably. I imagine that it diverges too much from its letter ancestor. To obtain what I needed, I had much more luck with the minimalistic beletter class [2] (Typeset Belgian letters). As far as I understand

French conventions: hacking the letter class

2007-10-20 Thread Liviu Andronic
file for the lettre class [1] (Letters and faxes in French), but failed miserably. I imagine that it diverges too much from its letter ancestor. To obtain what I needed, I had much more luck with the minimalistic beletter class [2] (Typeset Belgian letters). As far as I understand

French conventions: hacking the letter class

2007-10-20 Thread Liviu Andronic
file for the lettre class [1] (Letters and faxes in French), but failed miserably. I imagine that it diverges too much from its letter ancestor. To obtain what I needed, I had much more luck with the minimalistic beletter class [2] (Typeset Belgian letters). As far as I understand

Re: How to set the printer page size to letter without altering the layout

2007-09-27 Thread Daniel Lohmann
document and made the ACM copyright box (a fixed area on the bottom of the first column ACM uses for copyright and bibliographic information) run into the second column. I assume from your location that you usually want to use A4 and just need letter for certain special situations (such as the one

Re: How to set the printer page size to letter without altering the layout

2007-09-27 Thread Paul A. Rubin
invokes pdflatex on a document where I have set A4 paper size, the result is US letter size (my system default) and (b) using either geometry or hyperref results in A4 output. The alternative to using a package as described above is, of course, to edit the config file pdflatex uses. I'm pretty

Re: How to set the printer page size to letter without altering the layout

2007-09-27 Thread Daniel Lohmann
document and made the ACM copyright box (a fixed area on the bottom of the first column ACM uses for copyright and bibliographic information) run into the second column. I assume from your location that you usually want to use A4 and just need letter for certain special situations (such as the one

Re: How to set the printer page size to letter without altering the layout

2007-09-27 Thread Paul A. Rubin
invokes pdflatex on a document where I have set A4 paper size, the result is US letter size (my system default) and (b) using either geometry or hyperref results in A4 output. The alternative to using a package as described above is, of course, to edit the config file pdflatex uses. I'm pretty

Re: How to set the printer page size to letter without altering the layout

2007-09-27 Thread Daniel Lohmann
pages document and made the "ACM copyright box" (a fixed area on the bottom of the first column ACM uses for copyright and bibliographic information) run into the second column. I assume from your location that you usually want to use A4 and just need letter for certain sp

Re: How to set the printer page size to letter without altering the layout

2007-09-27 Thread Paul A. Rubin
eneral, when LyX invokes pdflatex on a document where I have set A4 paper size, the result is US letter size (my system default) and (b) using either geometry or hyperref results in A4 output. The alternative to using a package as described above is, of course, to edit the config file pdf

How to set the printer page size to letter without altering the layout

2007-09-26 Thread Daniel Lohmann
out how to use one of these packages to set the printer page size *without* having it to recalculate the type area according to more or less nifty algorithms at the same time. (With the ACM classes, the type area is anyway fixed and optimized for letter format.) More precisely: \usepackage

Re: How to set the printer page size to letter without altering the layout

2007-09-26 Thread Paul A. Rubin
was not able to figure out how to use one of these packages to set the printer page size *without* having it to recalculate the type area according to more or less nifty algorithms at the same time. (With the ACM classes, the type area is anyway fixed and optimized for letter format.) More

How to set the printer page size to letter without altering the layout

2007-09-26 Thread Daniel Lohmann
out how to use one of these packages to set the printer page size *without* having it to recalculate the type area according to more or less nifty algorithms at the same time. (With the ACM classes, the type area is anyway fixed and optimized for letter format.) More precisely: \usepackage

Re: How to set the printer page size to letter without altering the layout

2007-09-26 Thread Paul A. Rubin
was not able to figure out how to use one of these packages to set the printer page size *without* having it to recalculate the type area according to more or less nifty algorithms at the same time. (With the ACM classes, the type area is anyway fixed and optimized for letter format.) More

How to set the printer page size to letter without altering the layout

2007-09-26 Thread Daniel Lohmann
ry and typearea. However, I was not able to figure out how to use one of these packages to set the printer page size *without* having it to recalculate the type area according to more or less nifty algorithms at the same time. (With the ACM classes, the type area is anyway fixed and optimiz

Re: How to set the printer page size to letter without altering the layout

2007-09-26 Thread Paul A. Rubin
he backend-driver: geometry and typearea. However, I was not able to figure out how to use one of these packages to set the printer page size *without* having it to recalculate the type area according to more or less nifty algorithms at the same time. (With the ACM classes, the type area is anywa

Re: Logo in lyx document class letter (g-brief, German)

2007-09-20 Thread colden
Thanks a lot el (hope you don`t mind me posting your solution below, I changed all personal data). I did the preamble thing and managed to get a Background picture into my letter (for me it had to be in *.ps format though). What didn't work however was the ERT in the Name field: \protect{ \begin

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