understanding needspace

Hi, I suppose I'm misunderstanding the use of needspace. The minimal document below produces several lines of space before the second section header, but no produces no effect before the first. What I thought would happen is that neither section header would have any spaces added, just that each one would be certain to have a certain number of lines left on the page before typesetting the header; otherwise a page would be ejected and the section would begin on the new page. Am I misunderstanding the package? thanks, --Tim Arnold \documentclass{memoir} \usepackage{lipsum} \r

\xspace and inter-sentence space

Hi there, I want to create a macro to display properly "et al." or other latin abbreviations like "i.e." or something similar. I created this macro: \newcommand{\etal}{\emph{et al.}\xspace} Now the problem is, that the \xspace will always create an inter-sentence very big space instead of a small one: "Cameron et al. define approaches for..." How can I force xspace to produce only an inter-word space? Manually I would do it like "Cameron et al.\ define approaches for..." But how can I do that in the macro with the nice features of xspace? Cheers, Hauke

Hyperref and ulem incompatability?

hi all, there seems to be an incompatability with hyperref and ulem: it's not possible to use \sout in a \section command when also using hyperref. the following minimal document fails to compile: ====================================================================== \documentclass{article} \usepackage{hyperref} \usepackage[normalem]{ulem} \begin{document} \section{\sout{text}} Some text. \end{document} ====================================================================== ERROR: Paragraph ended before \let was complete. --- TeX said --- <to be read again>

[biblatex] Set option locally for \fullcite

I am using biblatex for my Ph.D. thesis. I have used the "firstinits=true" option. However, I have a short list of publications built using \fullcite. For these specific \fullcite's I would like "firstinits=false". Is there any way to achieve this? I have previously asked a similar question regarding minnames and maxnames, but I suppose the above setting does not boil down to setting a LaTeX counter as for the latter? Best regards, Thomas Arildsen

\if else function to switch between Beamer and [handout]Beamer

Hello, Is it possible to construct an \if so I can produce a pdf slide show or handouts with Beamer? I have a Beamer presentation made up and would like to produce handouts for the students. I do not want to print out the entire presentation for them, only the relevant content. For instance, I have a sequence of slides which sequentially build up to something, for explanatory purposes, but would be better printed as the completed product. Can I, using an \if argument, have LaTeX choose between including a frame or not including a frame depending on the output form? Any other s

Cyrillic Font recommendation needed

Dear All, In XeLaTeX I am typesetting a complex document, using the lmroman family as main document font. I also need to include sizable quantities of Mongolian words using the Cyrillic alphabet. I tried DejaVuSerif but it stands out in stark contrast against lmroman. Is there a Cyrillic font that matches better? Thank you for all recommendations, Oliver. -- Dr. Oliver Corff e-mail: corff@zedat.fu-berlin.de

Biblatex question: how to convert literal fields into integers?

According to the specs of a particular bbx file I am hacking, the publisher should be omitted if the book was published before 1900. So I have tried to use the following code: \ifnumgreater{year}{1900}% {\printlist{publisher}}% {}% But I have failed because, as far as I can see, year is a literal field, not an integer. Can anyone tell me how to convert a literal string into an integer?

pd1enc.def

Please what on earth could be causing the following type of error? The error is from pd1enc.def loaded by one of the packages I have loaded. \DeclareTextCommand ->\@dec@text@cmd \newcommand \@dec@text@cmd #1#2#3->\expandafter \def \expandafter #2\expandafter {\csname # 3-cmd\expandafter \endcsname \expandafter #2\csname #3\string #2\endcsname }\le t \@ifdefinable \@rc@ifdefinable \expandafter #1\csname #3\string #2\endcsname #1<-\newcommand #2<-\i #3<-PD1 {\expandafter} {\expandafter} {\expandafter} {\csname} {\expandafter} {\expandafter} {\csname} {\string} {changing

Text line contains an invalid character

I seem to be getting a repeating problem that is driving me nuts. I do pdflatex of my document and sometimes it stops due to some error on my part. So I kill the job. I correct the error and run the process again. Now it just says: Text line contains an invalid character l.1 I can't seem to get out of this loop. Sometimes it works when I simply add \begin{document}\end{document} directly after the documentclass, (the behaviour happens both with article and beamer) and then comment this out. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Geoff

iPad - Dropbox - Folder Action Script Workflow?

Since there is no TL for the iPad, I had the following idea: I store the files online on dropbox and edit them with droptext. Every time a file is changed, dropbox syncs it back to my Mac. A folder action script is triggered make is called and the file is processed. Sadly the script is only triggered when a file is added, not when it is modified. on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving added_items set the_folder to POSIX path of this_folder tell application "Finder" do shell script "cd " & (the quoted form of the_folder a

Please please help to fix these 11 lines of TeX!

Hello, Please could someone be so kind as to assist me to get these few lines of TeX to work? I've read that `\write' expands its 2nd argument just like `\edef' does. But despite my knowing this, everything I've tried fails. I'm beaten! Essentially, I need to input some text, manipulate it, and then write it to the external file `helpme.txt'. %------------------------------------------------------------------- \def\processMe#1{% \newwrite\outFile\relax \immediate\openout\outFile=helpme.txt\relax \def\myLine{\manipulateMyLine{#1}} \immediate\write\outFile{\myLin

Compilation of multiple articles, different authors

Howdy, all; I've been tasked with putting together a compilation of a number of different articles into book form. Each article is contributed by a different author, and needs to be credited as such. Each article compiles individually, and I am able to successfully bring in each article as a section or chapter in the master document using \include{file-name}, using only the body of the text in the include-files. However, as far as I can tell, the 'author' field is particular to the master document's preamble. Which package should I use -- or is there a simple command I'm ove

(memoir) Removing "Contents" entry on Table of Contents page

Hi, I am using memoir to write a book and am using one of the chapter page styles from CTAN designed for memoir. However, I just noticed that when I have \tableofcontents in my document, I get a page "Contents" as expected but I also get as first entry "Contents" which I do not like. I see no reason to have as first entry on the page "Contents" as being "Contents". How can I get rid of it? Is this expected behavior or perhaps I am doing something untoward? I would appreciate. Regards, Tariq

Floatrow: fcapside: figure and caption centered together

Hi, I use floatrow and put some captions beside the figure. For a small figure and a small figure, is there a way to automatically limit the horizontal space occupied? So what I want is that caption and figure are together centered in the middle. Example: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{floatrow,blindtext} \usepackage[ngerman]{babel} \begin{document} \begin{figure} \fcapside{\framebox{HALLO}} {\caption{Beschriftung zum Bild}} \end{figure} \begin{figure} \fcapside[\FBwidth]{\framebox{HALLO}} {\caption{Beschriftung zum Bild}} \end{figure} \thisfloatse

logreq buggy?

Hi there, i succesfully installed biber - and therefore had to update a few modules - one was etoobox, another logreq which i installed the first time. Now it does: (~/texmf/tex/latex/logreq/logreq.sty$ Package: logreq 2010/08/04 v1.0 xml request logger$ \lrq@indent=\count124$ $ (~/texmf/tex/latex/logreq/logreq.def$ File: logreq.def 2010/08/04 v1.0 logreq spec v1.0$ $ ! Undefined control sequence.$ \lrq@tab@i #1->\ifnumgreater $ {#1}\z@ {\space \space \expandafter \lrq@tab@i ...$ l.8 ...Co

% !TEX

Every so often I see a minimal example starting like: % !TEX TS-program = xelatex % !TEX something else % ... \documentclass{...} I have looked (man pages, The XETEX reference manual, the XETEX Companion, the FAQ, google groups) but haven't found anything explaining the % !TEX construct. Could some kind soul point me to where it is explained and how I might use it. Thanks Peter W.

how can I replace half an environment by a command?

When preparing slides for a talk I use beamer (of course). I would like to write the slides as follows: ==== Title of first slide ==== content content content ==== Title of second slide ==== content content content ==== (a new slide with no title) ==== content content content ============= This would make it very easy to produce my slides. But how can I achieve this in pure (La)TeX? I would need to define a command '==== #1 ====' that expands to \end{frame}\begin{frame}\frametitle{#1} But of course this does not work, first of all the equals sign is a d

Package xcolor Error: Undefined color `BurntOrange'

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm trying to compile a pspicture environment, where some colors are defined numerically, e.g. == \definecolor{color125}{rgb}{0.0,0.24313725490196078,1.0} \definecolor{color142}{rgb}{0.0,0.13333333333333333,1.0} \definecolor{color153}{rgb}{0.0,0.25098039215686274,1.0} \definecolor{color138}{rgb}{0.0,0.08627450980392157,1.0} == However, at one line, I need to use color `BurntOrange': == \psline[linewidth=0.04cm,linecolor=BurntOrange](12.72,1.41)(3.14,-2.95) == The problem is that I'm getting, at compilation, that xcolo

CTAN update: pstricks-add

Herbert Voss wrote: > I uploaded pstricks-add.tgz to the uk mirror. > Please delete _all_ files in the directory > > /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pstricks-add/ > > and put the new ones in there > > pstricks-add is a PSTricks related package, which has a lot > of additional features, like arrows, special curves, a... > > pstricks-add.tex ----------- (Dominik Rodriguez/hv) > v 3.44 2010-08-28 - new option XYoffset for \psMatrixPlot > to plot sparse matrices inside a grid > - moved option method into pst-plot thanks for the upload

How to create multiple ps-files from single latex document

Dear comp.text.tex, How do I create a pdf file for e.g. each chapter of a latex document? It would be most convenient if I didn't need to split a ps-file after compiling/dvipsing I have tried to Google for the answer, but so far unsuccessful :-( Best regards Troels Pedersen

"The rest of the line" length?

I want to typeset lines like this: Your answer: __________________________________________________ . In general, there is a couple of words (e.g., "Your answer:") at the left margin. Empty underlined space for person's answer and some punctuation (a period in the above example) or text at the page's right margin. Text at the left margin is of variable width and I want the underlined space fill automatically all the available space. Without the underlined space the idea is like this: Your answer: \hspace{\stretch{1}} . But I don't know how to do it with underlining. I

includegraphics puzzle

Hi, consider the following minimal example: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{graphicx} \def\Ext{.pdf} \def\File{foo} \begin{document} %\includegraphics{\File\Ext} % why does this not work? \includegraphics{foo.pdf} \end{document} If I compile this file with the commented out \includegraphics line, I get the following console message, even though I get no such error with the second \includegraphics command. ! LaTeX Error: File `foo.pdf' not found. What I'm trying to do is the following: I'm writing a small package that includes a logo; I want to use \ifxetex and

Odd behaviour with ntheorem

Hello: I find some strange behaviour when using the ntheorem package. Below are three displayed equations, but only the first displays correctly (or as one would expect). However, if I comment out the use of ntheorem, all three displays are as expected. Could someone help with an explanation? Thanks, Vijay. --------------------------------- \documentclass{article} \usepackage[leqno]{amsmath} \usepackage[amsmath,thmmarks]{ntheorem} \begin{document} \begin{align} a^2 + b^2 = c^2 \tag{CP} \end{align} \[ a^2 + b^2 = c^2 \tag{CP} \] \begin{equation}

line breaks for url within bib

I have reviewed Tex FAQs 1) URLs in BibTeX bibliographies and 2) Typesetting URLs but still cannot figure out how to (automatically) hyphenate/line break long url addresses within a bib entry description. Imagine a url: www.WhenInTheCourseOfHumanEventsItBecomes....com that I am putting in as the publisher or howpublished (in @misc). I do not need or even want the url to be an active link, just plain text (using default font for whichever item it is). I have tried \ hyphenation{When In The Course Of Human Events It Becomes} but bibtex just ignores it. I realize I can kluge it t

single- and double-column documents from the same source and problem with tables

Hi, Some IEEE journals require that manuscripts be submitted in both single- and double-column versions (since a double-column format is *obviously* very well suited for maths </sarcasm>). They also impose strict page limits. The IEEEtran class allows one to switch between single- and double-column formats, but not without headaches: long formulae and tables formatted to the column width of a double-column document are very space-inefficient in the single-column version. Thus, to save space and avoid exceeding page limits, they need to be formatted differently in the two cases.