Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX - simple _working_ minipage solution

2006-01-23 Thread Herbert Voss
Helge Hafting wrote: Herbert Voss wrote: Helge Hafting wrote: Latex does not seem to offer a proper way of aligning boxes by the box top, but there is a simple workaround. TeX offers everything ... A minipage is nothing else than a box and it is aligned in the same way as two characters a

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX - simple _working_ minipage solution

2006-01-23 Thread Helge Hafting
Herbert Voss wrote: Helge Hafting wrote: Latex does not seem to offer a proper way of aligning boxes by the box top, but there is a simple workaround. TeX offers everything ... A minipage is nothing else than a box and it is aligned in the same way as two characters are aligned. That offe

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX - simple _working_ minipage solution

2006-01-21 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 03:49:44PM +0100, Herbert Voss wrote: > Helge Hafting wrote: > > >Latex does not seem to offer a proper way of aligning boxes by the > >box top, but there is a simple workaround. > > TeX offers everything ... Except undoing paragraph breaks. SCNR. Andre'

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX - simple _working_ minipage solution

2006-01-20 Thread Herbert Voss
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: Herbert Voss writes: Helge Hafting wrote: Latex does not seem to offer a proper way of aligning boxes by the box top, but there is a simple workaround. TeX offers everything ... Look-ahead beyond the paragraph? Okay one can explicitly add an additional latex run to

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX - simple _working_ minipage solution

2006-01-20 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Herbert Voss writes: > Helge Hafting wrote: > > Latex does not seem to offer a proper way of aligning boxes by the > > box top, but there is a simple workaround. > > TeX offers everything ... Look-ahead beyond the paragraph? Okay one can explicitly add an additional latex run to determine where a

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX - simple _working_ minipage solution

2006-01-20 Thread Herbert Voss
Helge Hafting wrote: Latex does not seem to offer a proper way of aligning boxes by the box top, but there is a simple workaround. TeX offers everything ... A minipage is nothing else than a box and it is aligned in the same way as two characters are aligned. Herbert

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX - simple _working_ minipage solution

2006-01-19 Thread john
Another suggestion from Ross Moore works brilliantly. Instead of a protected blank in the 1st line of each minipage, instead put a TeX \null. \null is a macro for \hbox{} which creates an empty box of zero dimensions. This effectively forces the minipages to top align with the very top of the min

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX - simple _working_ minipage solution

2006-01-18 Thread Ross Moore
Hi John, On 19/01/2006, at 5:14 PM, john wrote: Aha! I've got it working - Helge minipages + Ross Moore \html stuff: Here's the solution: 1. Put \htmlonly latex tabular statement before the 1st minipage 2. replace the LyX hfill with a conditional \latexhtml{\hfill}{&} 3. Follow the 2nd minipa

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX - simple _working_ minipage solution

2006-01-18 Thread john
Aha! I've got it working - Helge minipages + Ross Moore \html stuff: Here's the solution: 1. Put \htmlonly latex tabular statement before the 1st minipage 2. replace the LyX hfill with a conditional \latexhtml{\hfill}{&} 3. Follow the 2nd minipage with an \htmlonly \end{tabular} Of course you h

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX - simple _working_ minipage solution

2006-01-18 Thread john
Latex2html will not place 2 minipages side-by-side. I got the official response from Ross Moore on the latex2html list. He said that he did not bother to program a lookahead to see how to stack minipages. In effect you have to write htmlonly code to force a tabular environment around the minipages

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX - simple _working_ minipage solution

2006-01-18 Thread john
On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 10:50 +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: > john wrote: > > >On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 12:18 -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: > > > > > >>On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, John O'Gorman wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>I have 6 books on Tex/LaTeX but not that one! Can you give us a brief > >>>pointer to ho

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX - simple _working_ minipage solution

2006-01-18 Thread Helge Hafting
john wrote: On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 12:18 -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, John O'Gorman wrote: I have 6 books on Tex/LaTeX but not that one! Can you give us a brief pointer to how to fix it (or is it not fixable)? John, Yes, it's fixable. Let me paraphrase fro