Lengths

2005-08-11 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Hi I am trying to edit a sty file to set up what I want to see on the page. There are a number of lengths that are defined \vskip x\p@ where x is a number. What exactly is the unit of length here?

Re: Lengths

2005-08-11 Thread Herbert Voss
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Hi I am trying to edit a sty file to set up what I want to see on the page. There are a number of lengths that are defined \vskip x\p@ where x is a number. What exactly is the unit of length here? \newdimen\p@ [EMAIL PROTECTED] % this saves macro space and time

Lengths

2005-08-11 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Hi I am trying to edit a sty file to set up what I want to see on the page. There are a number of lengths that are defined \vskip x\p@ where x is a number. What exactly is the unit of length here?

Re: Lengths

2005-08-11 Thread Herbert Voss
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Hi I am trying to edit a sty file to set up what I want to see on the page. There are a number of lengths that are defined \vskip x\p@ where x is a number. What exactly is the unit of length here? \newdimen\p@ [EMAIL PROTECTED] % this saves macro space and time

Lengths

2005-08-11 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Hi I am trying to edit a sty file to set up what I want to see on the page. There are a number of lengths that are defined \vskip x\p@ where x is a number. What exactly is the unit of length here?

Re: Lengths

2005-08-11 Thread Herbert Voss
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Hi I am trying to edit a sty file to set up what I want to see on the page. There are a number of lengths that are defined \vskip x\p@ where x is a number. What exactly is the unit of length here? \newdimen\p@ [EMAIL PROTECTED] % this saves macro space and time

lengths

2005-08-08 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Hi I am trying to make a line on a page that is as long as the actual text in the paragraph, not the width of the text on the page. This may sound confusing but it should look like this MY NAME UNIVERSITY ADDRESS DATE _ Rather than a line that goes across the whole page.

lengths

2005-08-08 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Hi I am trying to make a line on a page that is as long as the actual text in the paragraph, not the width of the text on the page. This may sound confusing but it should look like this MY NAME UNIVERSITY ADDRESS DATE _ Rather than a line that goes across the whole page.

lengths

2005-08-08 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Hi I am trying to make a line on a page that is as long as the actual text in the paragraph, not the width of the text on the page. This may sound confusing but it should look like this MY NAME UNIVERSITY ADDRESS DATE _ Rather than a line that goes across the whole page.

Float width input using latex-internal lengths

2005-03-16 Thread Joachim Heidemeier
Hi, I just stumbled over a small problem in defining float widths with internal lengths of latex. In the lyx-dialogs one can enter fractions of \textwidth and \columnwidth. I'd like to use sometimes (for quite broad tables) \textwidth+\marginparwidth. is it possible to enter this (relative

Float width input using latex-internal lengths

2005-03-16 Thread Joachim Heidemeier
Hi, I just stumbled over a small problem in defining float widths with internal lengths of latex. In the lyx-dialogs one can enter fractions of \textwidth and \columnwidth. I'd like to use sometimes (for quite broad tables) \textwidth+\marginparwidth. is it possible to enter this (relative

Float width input using latex-internal lengths

2005-03-16 Thread Joachim Heidemeier
Hi, I just stumbled over a small problem in defining float widths with internal lengths of latex. In the lyx-dialogs one can enter fractions of \textwidth and \columnwidth. I'd like to use sometimes (for quite broad tables) \textwidth+\marginparwidth. is it possible to enter this (relative