>>Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 10:13:10 -0800 >>To: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: Re: Odd printing behavior... mauve colons >>User-Agent: Mutt/1.0pre3i >>From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >>I mentioned originally that I noticed a "mauve colon" on the left side of >>the viewed area in lyx. I have rexamined my printed output (and dvips shows >>the same, FWIW) and note the following, which must be linked to this: >> >>The first line of the document prints on its own page (the first page). >> >>The second page runs off the bottom, below the page number. This is the >>area in which I have made modifications to the original exam material (which >>was read in as an ascii file). >> >>The third page shows unmodified text. >> >>The mauve colon actually should have been described as colons before Every >>line in the section which I modified, which runs off the page. There is no >>colon in the left margin of the first line. There is no colon next to the >>lines found on the third page. Nothing but colons in between. >> >>I have a feeling that I somehow marked and formatted the entire section in >>some way to force it to act as a single unit, including making it literally >>run off the printed page. >> I may be completeky off the problem, but I found once that changing the style of a text (using the Character or Paragraph menu) and then making it a section could lead to severe misbehaviors (infinite latex run e.g.) -- Jean-Pierre >>???? >> >>Kenward