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How to use CM fonts at the "wrong" size? 9 23 (10/5/2007 5:58:21 PM) comp.text.tex Hi all, I'm trying to convince my university to let me LaTeX my thesis. To my astonishment, they've been somewhat accommodating, but have one objection so far. They're not thrilled with the Computer Modern fo... daveandes

Port forwarding (tunneling?) HTTP requests to Windows client 2 338 (12/18/2006 11:18:56 PM) comp.unix.solaris My university has a number of web resources (course notes, library catalog, etc.) that are restricted to use by the campus community. Being a small college where pretty much everyone lives in the dorms, this m... daveandes

ltxdoc guard formatting wierdness 1 22 (10/27/2006 9:09:09 PM) comp.text.tex I noticed the following behavior and am wondering if this is normal, a bug, or something wierd with my installation: If I run classes.dtx through pdflatex, all the guards (for instance, on line 1) in the P... daveandes

[OT] Docstrip for literate programming in other langauges 3 21 (6/8/2006 12:02:13 AM) comp.text.tex Sorry if this is somewhat off-topic. I will be starting a new project soon that will be using XHTML, CSS, PHP, and MySQL to build a website. I have used Docstrip a bit in the past and was thinking that it migh... daveandes

Hanging section headings (\@startsection indent question) 2 25 (3/28/2006 3:17:34 PM) comp.text.tex I have been experimenting with the \@startsection command and find this curious: When I use a standard class (say, book) and have a section title that spans several lines, the section number is flush-left at t... daveandes

\captionof not working correctly in new environment 13 36 (3/15/2006 12:50:16 AM) comp.text.tex I'm writing some code to apply different formats to a figure environment depending on the size of the included graphic. Accordingly, I can't use the \caption command directly since this would typeset the captio... daveandes

Graphicx TeXnicians: Best way to find finished size of included graphic? 5 21 (1/30/2006 8:33:47 PM) comp.text.tex I'm hoping someone might help me find a (relatively) easy solution to a big graphicx problem! For a while now, I've been working on a lengthy manual that has a large number of figures. Most of them are in four... daveandes

Newbie Q: DynDNS sendmail setup 4 169 (9/28/2005 6:24:38 PM) comp.unix.solaris My question concerns sendmail and domain names. When I boot my workstation, I get the following messages: Sep 28 12:14:33 kernighan sendmail[167] My unqualified host name (kernighan) unknown; sleeping for retr... daveandes

LAM-MPI Newbie Lamboot Question 3 112 (6/3/2005 9:30:52 PM) comp.parallel.mpi I'm getting started with LAM-MPI on a 16-node homogeneous Beowulf cluster and have encountered the following circumstances that I hope someone can clarify for me. I've written a basic "Hello World" program tha... daveandes

Skip empty list of figures, tables, abbreviations 2 49 (1/30/2005 7:09:31 PM) comp.text.tex I'm helping to write a thesis class for my university, based upon book. It's all set to go except for one thing. We'd like to have it generate a list of figures, tables, or abbreviations only if there are figur... daveandes

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Skip empty list of figures, tables, abbreviations 2 49 (1/30/2005 7:09:31 PM) comp.text.tex I'm helping to write a thesis class for my university, based upon book. It's all set to go except for one thing. We'd like to have it generate a list of figures, tables, or abbreviations only if there are figur... daveandes (27)

Graphicx TeXnicians: Best way to find finished size of included graphic? 5 21 (1/30/2006 8:33:47 PM) comp.text.tex I'm hoping someone might help me find a (relatively) easy solution to a big graphicx problem! For a while now, I've been working on a lengthy manual that has a large number of figures. Most of them are in four... daveandes (27)

\captionof not working correctly in new environment 13 36 (3/15/2006 12:50:16 AM) comp.text.tex I'm writing some code to apply different formats to a figure environment depending on the size of the included graphic. Accordingly, I can't use the \caption command directly since this would typeset the captio... daveandes (27)

Hanging section headings (\@startsection indent question) 2 25 (3/28/2006 3:17:34 PM) comp.text.tex I have been experimenting with the \@startsection command and find this curious: When I use a standard class (say, book) and have a section title that spans several lines, the section number is flush-left at t... daveandes (27)

[OT] Docstrip for literate programming in other langauges 3 21 (6/8/2006 12:02:13 AM) comp.text.tex Sorry if this is somewhat off-topic. I will be starting a new project soon that will be using XHTML, CSS, PHP, and MySQL to build a website. I have used Docstrip a bit in the past and was thinking that it migh... daveandes (27)

How to use CM fonts at the "wrong" size? 9 23 (10/5/2007 5:58:21 PM) comp.text.tex Hi all, I'm trying to convince my university to let me LaTeX my thesis. To my astonishment, they've been somewhat accommodating, but have one objection so far. They're not thrilled with the Computer Modern fo... daveandes (27)