Re: [XeTeX] horizontal alignment

2012-11-20 Thread Lucio Crusca
In data martedì 20 novembre 2012 00:45:34, Andy Lin ha scritto: I'm not sure I understand the desired layout, To understand it you can simply compile the code I attached in the first message. It's nearly what I need, except you can see WORDs after TITLEs a bit off (about 1mm) their expected

Re: [XeTeX] horizontal alignment

2012-11-20 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 19.11.2012 um 15:07 schrieb Lucio Crusca: Any suggestion welcome, thanks in advance. It's not a problem with the XeTeX engine. If you use the pdfTeX engine you get the same results. If you substitute the \makebox with a \framebox you might get a hint for finding better LaTeX code. --

Re: [XeTeX] horizontal alignment

2012-11-20 Thread Lucio Crusca
In data martedì 20 novembre 2012 11:46:42, Peter Dyballa ha scritto: Am 19.11.2012 um 15:07 schrieb Lucio Crusca: Any suggestion welcome, thanks in advance. It's not a problem with the XeTeX engine. If you use the pdfTeX engine you get the same results. No doubts, I never intended to mean

Re: [XeTeX] horizontal alignment

2012-11-20 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Lucio Crusca wrote: Tried, but the only hint I got is that the problem is caused by something that is actually there but it's invisible... Example code will much faciltate effective diagnosis. Philip Taylor -- Subscriptions, Archive, and

Re: [XeTeX] horizontal alignment

2012-11-20 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 20.11.2012 um 13:02 schrieb Lucio Crusca: Tried, but the only hint I got is that the problem is caused by something that is actually there but it's invisible... Then try to \usepackage{xcolor} and colorise the boxes to see which one produces which artefact. The minipage

Re: [XeTeX] horizontal alignment

2012-11-20 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2012/11/20 Peter Dyballa peter_dyba...@web.de: Am 20.11.2012 um 13:02 schrieb Lucio Crusca: Tried, but the only hint I got is that the problem is caused by something that is actually there but it's invisible... Then try to \usepackage{xcolor} and colorise the boxes to see

Re: [XeTeX] horizontal alignment

2012-11-20 Thread Susan Dittmar
To understand it you can simply compile the code I attached in the first message. It's nearly what I need, except you can see WORDs after TITLEs a bit off (about 1mm) their expected placement. Then my first guess is that's due to additional space added because of spaces the TeX engine cannot

Re: [XeTeX] horizontal alignment

2012-11-20 Thread Lucio Crusca
In data martedì 20 novembre 2012 14:05:48, Zdenek Wagner ha scritto: I would go even further. Within minipage LaTeX does a lot of things that are not explained in the user manual, it is necessary to dig into the LaTeX source code. among others it handles footnotes so that they appear inside

Re: [XeTeX] horizontal alignment

2012-11-20 Thread John Was
- Original Message - From: Lucio Crusca lu...@sulweb.org To: Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms xetex@tug.org Sent: 20 November 2012 15:42 Subject: Re: [XeTeX] horizontal alignment In data martedì 20 novembre 2012 14:05:48, Zdenek Wagner ha scritto: I would go even further

Re: [XeTeX] horizontal alignment

2012-11-20 Thread Tobias Schoel
\nopagebreak Am 20.11.2012 um 17:42 schrieb Lucio Crusca lu...@sulweb.org: In data martedì 20 novembre 2012 14:05:48, Zdenek Wagner ha scritto: I would go even further. Within minipage LaTeX does a lot of things that are not explained in the user manual, it is necessary to dig into the LaTeX

Re: [XeTeX] horizontal alignment

2012-11-20 Thread Philip TAYLOR
John Was wrote: Hello I'm not a LaTeX user but I think the standard plain TeX commands mostly work in that environment. Could you not try giving: \begingroup \interlinepenalty1 STUFF YOU WANT TO KEEP ON SAME PAGE \endgroup If you are going to advocate plain TeX solutions (as would

Re: [XeTeX] horizontal alignment

2012-11-20 Thread John Was
- Original Message - From: Philip TAYLOR p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk To: Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms xetex@tug.org Sent: 20 November 2012 16:19 Subject: Re: [XeTeX] horizontal alignment John Was wrote: Hello I'm not a LaTeX user but I think the standard plain TeX commands

Re: [XeTeX] horizontal alignment

2012-11-20 Thread Martin Schröder
2012/11/20 Philip TAYLOR p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk: Absolutely. All because TeX does not (sadly) have two reference points for a box. For this reason in real life situations I use That's why LaTeX3 has coffins. :-) Best Martin -- Subscriptions,

Re: [XeTeX] horizontal alignment

2012-11-20 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 19.11.2012 um 16:46 schrieb Lucio Crusca: Any suggestion welcome, thanks in advance. provo.tex Description: Binary data -- Greetings Pete (This space left blank for technical reasons.) -- Subscriptions, Archive, and

[XeTeX] horizontal alignment

2012-11-19 Thread Lucio Crusca
Hello *, I'm quite new here, I've been using LaTeX and XeTeX for a while but I'm no expert. I use texlive 2011 for linux/i386. I'm trying to obtain horizontal alignment of some words. Let's make an example (look at the following with a monospaced font): TITLE1WORD1

[XeTeX] horizontal alignment

2012-11-19 Thread Lucio Crusca
Hello *, I'm quite new here, I've been using LaTeX and XeTeX for a while but I'm no expert. I use texlive 2011 for linux/i386. I'm trying to obtain horizontal alignment of some words. Let's make an example (look at the following with a monospaced font): TITLE1WORD1

Re: [XeTeX] horizontal alignment

2012-11-19 Thread Tobias Schoel
Hello, I'm not sure if I understood you correctly, but what you want to do seems to me to structurally be a table, so you should also tex it that way: \begin{tabular}{@{}l@{\hspace{5cm}}p{2cm}@{}l@{}} Title1WORD 1\\ text in a minipage environment\\ \multicolumn{2}{l@{}}{that spans exactly}\\

Re: [XeTeX] horizontal alignment

2012-11-19 Thread Lucio Crusca
In data lunedì 19 novembre 2012 18:39:55, Tobias Schoel ha scritto: Hello, I'm not sure if I understood you correctly, but what you want to do seems to me to structurally be a table, so you should also tex it that way: I forgot to specify that there are unforeseeable (at coding time)

Re: [XeTeX] horizontal alignment

2012-11-19 Thread Andy Lin
I'm not sure I understand the desired layout, but why not: \newcommand{\sessoentry}[1]{\noindent\makebox[4cm][l]{\textbf{#1}}} \newcommand{\classeentry}[1]{\textbf{#1}} If the TITLE and WORD are meant to fit on a single line, then this should be fine. On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Lucio