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Odd pstricks behaviour 5 21 (9/20/2011 11:44:35 PM) comp.text.tex I was constructing a small test document to play with TeXworks, and found a weird effect in pstricks. I'm curious why it arises: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{pstricks} \begin{document} %Uncomment this... Alan

hyperref, MakeUppercase and memoir 14 30 (4/1/2011 4:11:09 PM) comp.text.tex Hi, I'm trying to get all chapter level headings set in uppercase (including the LOT, LOF and any other Lists of that the user may have defined) in my TOC in memoir. The following MWE shows the problem. If ... Alan

Patching commands 7 170 (12/17/2010 1:11:19 AM) comp.text.tex Hi, my university thesis requirements need different spacings for the ToC compared to the LoF, LoT etc. My class file uses memoir as its base, so it's easy to change the LoF etc. parameters. But I'd lik... Alan

\newgeometry command 2 903 (8/25/2010 5:13:56 AM) comp.text.tex Hi, The \newgeometry command from the geometry package always forces a \clearpage as soon as it is encountered. Is there any way to make it work so that the new settings come into effect at the next... Alan

reusing the abstract in memoir 1 203 (8/22/2010 7:22:04 PM) comp.text.tex Hi, I've made a thesis class based on memoir. Our thesis office requires an extra copy of the abstract, formatted in the same way as the original abstract. Is there a way within the class (not within the u... Alan

What version of pgf will be in TeXLive 2010? 4 224 (7/28/2010 9:29:12 PM) comp.text.tex Hi, I've been using a recent cvs version of pgf/tikz for a while because it has some useful additions to text formatting in nodes. This is especially useful for another package that I use a lot (tikz-qtree... Alan

enumitem question 2 260 (7/4/2010 11:28:46 PM) comp.text.tex Hi, Is it possible to define a new list using enumitem whose counter doesn't get reset? I know about the [resume] argument, but I'd like to just create a list that wouldn't require the use of [resume],... Alan

memoir TOC question 2 232 (7/2/2010 9:37:14 PM) comp.text.tex Hi, In a standard memoir TOC, the LOF and LOT are treated as chapter headings in the TOC, so they have no dotted leader. Is there a way to have just those entries have a dotted leader but without havin... Alan

Aligning a tabular with the left margin 5 504 (4/26/2010 7:28:38 PM) comp.text.tex Why does the table in the following document not line up on the left with the text below? \documentclass{article} \usepackage{parskip} \begin{document} \begin{tabular}{ll} Foo & Bar\\ Foobar & Barfo... Alan

Adding print drivers in OSX Server (10.6) 6 477 (3/21/2010 9:58:32 PM) comp.sys.mac.system Hi, I'm trying to connect our old HP Laserjet 4m printer to our lab server which is running OSX Server 10.6 When I add the printer, it doesn't autoselect the PPD file for the printer, and when I try to f... Alan

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[tikz] connection between nodes 9 36 (5/24/2011 9:37:11 PM) comp.text.tex Hi, I have the following nodes in my tikzpicture : \node (A) at (15, -5) {A}; \node (canal) at (15, -15) {Canal}; I want to connect the south west of (A) by drawing a vertical line in direction of (canal). ... jean7566 (6)

biblatex-apa "References" title not formatted properly 1 36 (6/8/2011 3:21:44 AM) comp.text.tex Hello, I'm learning to use biblatex-apa, and I'm trying to change the default "References" title, which is bold and not centered. As far as I understand the APA 6th edition sais that "References" should be cen... krivoru (1)

Newbie, Memoir, XeLaTeX and \foottextfont? 5 30 (7/26/2011 8:56:14 PM) comp.text.tex Hi all- I'm downloading TeXLive 2011 as I write in the off chance that it might offer a fix. Currently using 2010, upgraded as far as it went AFAIK. I'm using the Memoir class, and want footnotes in the same... vze26m98 (107)

BibTeX #11 7 27 (8/5/2011 1:49:19 PM) comp.text.tex I've gotten stumped by BibTeX. I'm writing a book with a lot of references coming from the BBC. Using the alpha bibstyle, it assigns each one a key: BBC11a, BBC11b, BBC11c, etc. (11 for "2011"). Then it gets... randy3109 (5)

getting minitoc and sweave working together 1 37 (8/9/2011 11:41:22 AM) comp.text.tex Hello, I wonder if anyone has arlready managed to get minitoc and sweave working together. sweave is part of R, a statistical software, and it's used to output the results (calculus, graphs...) in a latex docu... sylvain.willart (14)

ecltree 7 21 (8/9/2011 7:01:06 PM) comp.text.tex Hello, in the LaTeX companion 2nd ed, p. 612, there is described shortly the ecltree package, which is on CTAN. I'm quite satisfied with the package. However, there is one thing that could be improved. The pla... Francky (7)

Emboldening < and > 4 41 (9/9/2011 2:38:44 PM) comp.text.tex Can be emboldened? And if so, how? -- When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. Jonathan Swift: Thoughts on Various Subject... freddywilliams (130)

Odd pstricks behaviour 5 21 (9/20/2011 11:44:35 PM) comp.text.tex I was constructing a small test document to play with TeXworks, and found a weird effect in pstricks. I'm curious why it arises: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{pstricks} \begin{document} %Uncomment this... amunn (406)

can not change coding to Unicode (UTF-8) 9 30 (9/21/2011 7:19:36 AM) comp.text.tex I am writing a German LaTeX document in TeXShop. I have included the follow= ing in the preamble of my document to be able to type German special charac= ters: \usepackage[ngerman]{babel} \usepackage[utf8]{inp... 273252 (6)

Library files not recognized by TeXShop in Mac OS X 2 39 (9/27/2011 12:56:12 AM) comp.text.tex Hi, Per TexShop instructions on Mac OS 10.6, I placed my .bib file in ~/ Library/texmf/bibtex/bib directory. When I try and run bibtex on this file, TexShop can't find it. Do I need to do something else in Tex... brucehughw (4)