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koma-script and longtable captions 1 40 (4/22/2011 5:10:24 PM) comp.text.tex Aloha all, When using the longtable package and scrartcl, captions for longtables are set using the font size of the table (footnotesize) rather than the font size of the text (normalsize). The Koma-script... Tom

vfill in memoir maketitle 1 266 (2/8/2011 8:24:58 PM) comp.text.tex Aloha all, The following memoir code used to divide the title page into three blocks; the \vfill commands made sure the last block was at the bottom of the page. \pretitle{\begin{flushright}\huge\sffa... Tom

Passing keyval options 0 182 (12/18/2010 1:43:12 AM) comp.text.tex Aloha all, I'm trying to write a class file that passes keyval options to some of the packages it uses, especially hyperref and biblatex. This approach works with hyperref: \DeclareOption{anchorcolor... Tom

Cryptic error message 5 415 (11/25/2010 11:15:38 PM) comp.text.tex Aloha all, I can't learn enough to debug the following error message: [17] [18pdfTeX warning (ext4): destination with the same identifier (name{figure.1}) has been already used, duplicate ignored ... Tom

tex-gyre sans-serif size 3 730 (11/25/2010 9:12:10 PM) comp.text.tex Aloha all, I'm experimenting with the TeX-Gyre fonts and with the following setup I am finding that the sans serif font looks too large. I've read through the on-line and system documentation for a way ... Tom

microtype + lucida or utopia 2 209 (11/3/2010 10:39:17 PM) comp.text.tex Aloha all, Neither lucida nor utopia appear on the table of fonts with tailored protrusion settings in the microtype manual. I'm wondering if typographers would recommend using microtype with these font... Tom

Moving to biblatex 6 185 (10/7/2010 6:57:52 PM) comp.text.tex Aloha all, I'm preparing to use biblatex after an initial and successful test run. I'm anticipating that a lot of effort will be spent augmenting several very large .bib files to give biblatex the addit... Tom

[listings] linebreaks and resetmargins 0 227 (9/21/2010 3:46:53 AM) comp.text.tex Aloha all, Using resetmargins=false appears to confuse the line breaking mechanism in the listings package under some circumstances. In particular, when in an indented section of the text a line that en... Tom

theindex in article.cls 7 206 (5/3/2010 9:17:40 PM) comp.text.tex Aloha all, It seems odd to me that theindex environment for the article.cls issues \thispagestyle{plain}. This is what might be expected for a chapter in a book, but when does one want this kind of (pot... Tom

ftp client 12 166 (4/30/2010 4:54:07 PM) comp.sys.mac.apps Hi, I'm looking for an ftp client that will read an external file to configure file synchonization with a remote server. Here's an example of what the external file might look like: URL ftp://zyz:@ft... Tom

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koma-script and longtable captions 1 40 (4/22/2011 5:10:24 PM) comp.text.tex Aloha all, When using the longtable package and scrartcl, captions for longtables are set using the font size of the table (footnotesize) rather than the font size of the text (normalsize). The Koma-script... tsd (104)

Moving to biblatex 6 185 (10/7/2010 6:57:52 PM) comp.text.tex Aloha all, I'm preparing to use biblatex after an initial and successful test run. I'm anticipating that a lot of effort will be spent augmenting several very large .bib files to give biblatex the addit... tsd (104)

Hawaiian okina 5 458 (9/23/2010 11:56:58 PM) comp.text.tex Can anyone suggest a proper way of typesetting the Hawaiian letter 'okina? Right now, my workaround is to write Hawai$\!$`i ...i.e. shrink the distance that LaTex wants to give the left quotation mark (grav... Clay

CTAN has a new package: svg-inkscape 8 35 (6/10/2010 12:34:13 PM) comp.text.tex This package should within a day be at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College .......................................................................... The following information was provi... ctan-ann (4391)

BibTex Python 9 21 (1/29/2010 5:51:25 AM) comp.text.tex Does anyone know if there is a project underway to replace BibTex (the awful stack language) with a python program that could accomplish the same? As far as I can tell BibTex only reads the .tex file for \cite ... w.ccarleton (8)

glossaries manual 4 32 (10/23/2009 7:09:22 PM) comp.text.tex Aloha all, I'm using the excellent glossaries package. On page 26 of the manual I found this: > Note that if you are using the hyperref package and the glossaries are put in > chapters, you may need to rede... tsd (104)

book formats: booklet 3 39 (10/16/2009 4:45:39 PM) comp.text.tex Hello, I would like to print a book which I intend to put together using LaTeX. However I do not want to use the typical US Letter format or European A4 format. I would like the format to somewhat smaller so ... johngoche99 (70)

sad news about Eitan Gurari 4 44 (6/29/2009 8:26:23 PM) comp.text.tex I'm sorry to have found the following post of this date on the W3C MathML discussion list: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-math/2009Jun/0040.html which points to this announcement http://www.c... hammond (199)

Memoir question about changing top margins 12 36 (6/21/2009 8:45:22 PM) comp.text.tex Hi, I'm trying to build a class based on memoir to satisfy very specific and unchangeable thesis requirements. The following requirement has got me stymied. The top margin is set to 1" for the document. The... amunn (406)

Help on indentation in a style based on memoir 9 20 (6/19/2009 2:01:11 AM) comp.text.tex Aloha all, I'm trying to make a book class based on memoir that follows a pre-determined design. In this design, the chapter precis, quotes, and lists are all set in 0.5in from the left margin of the text a... tsd (104)