On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 02:00:10PM +0530, Banibrata Dutta wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Hoping that some LaTeX experts here may be able to help me with a book
> project which I am doing in LaTeX (instead of LyX).
>
> Q-1) How do I leave a page "Intetionally Blank", after the title page,
> and before the abstract page, if I am using...
>
> \documentclass[11pt,a4paper,titlepage]{article}
> \usepackage{fullpage}
> \usepackage[pdftitle={ID1421, BDutta},colorlinks=false,a4paper]{hyperref}
> \usepackage{graphicx}
>
> Note that, the following didn't work...
>
> \begin{document}
> \maketitle
> \newpage
> This page is intentionally left blank.
> \newpage
> \begin{abstract}
>
>
> Q-2) When I use "dvipdfm" or "pdflatex" tool to convert to PDF, all of
> my hyperlinks get a blue or red bounding-box. How do I do away with the
> bounding-box (or say a white bounding-box) ? I am more interested in the
> way which works for "dvipdfm".
>
Are you using the "hyperref" package to make hyperlinks? Read the
documentation, there are plenty of options for controlling these things.
> Q-3) I use MicroSoft Visio to create some network diagrams, and converted
> them to JPEG at high quality (i.e. "Print-Quality" 600dpi, and very low
There is no chance of using a vector ized format instead of a bitmap
format for this? Postscript is a good one. A trick for windows users
might be to install a postscript printer driver and then "print to file".
> compression). Then I used "jpeg2ps -p a4" command to convert to .EPS. The
> image quality in the document (.dvi or the generated final .pdf) seems much
> lower quality than the JPEG itself. Any way to get high quality image in my
> final PDF ?
>
Try the "pdflatex" way of generating latex. Jpegs should go in unchanged
this way, so no quality loss.
> Q-4) How do I solve this footnote problem ? I reference a footnote in the
> main text as follows... "SomeText\footnotemark{1}". The footnote definition
> is done as follows..
> \footnotetext[1]{SomeDescriptiveText}
> ... but the problem is that in the generated .dvi / .pdf, I find that in the
> main body the text appears with the superscript "1" after "SomeText" (as
> expected), but also an additional regular-size "_1" after the subscript,
> which is unexpected and undesired.
>
> Q-5) How to include some text in the document that is not part of any
> section ? For example, I want to put some text into a "Copyright" section at
> the end of my document, in a separate page,
Use a page break...
> with a Heading, but can't
> figure out how to get the heading, and ensure that it is not listed in the
> table of contents.
>
Use a "section* instead of a "section". No section number, and no
table of contents.
> Q-6) How do I get a "References" section, which also is included in table
> of contents ? My current usage:-
> \newpage
> \bibliographystyle{alpha}
> \bibliography{id-bilog}
> \nocite{Alan2005}
> ... puts a "References" heading automatically, (i.e. without the \section
> directive), but doesn't include it in the table of contents either.
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{References} on that page.
Or, some document classes support a "bibtotoc" option.
> Q-7) How to limit "float" feature ? I want to ensure that my two figures (on
> a single page), are separated by some text. Overall, for the document, I
> want to retain the "float" feature. Without the ability to control, my 2
> figures appear one after the other, although they are logically for two
> different paragraphs.
Make sure there actually is text between them. Then, experiment with
the settings for float positioning. Sometimes what you want can't be done
because it'll produce "too ugly" output. Mainly, the problem is
that a float doesn't fit on the bottom of the page, so it is moved
to the next. To fill the gap, text is pulled in from that next page.
That might move all the text you wanted to go between the float, and when
the next page opens up there are two floats queued up. Moving text
around so the paragraphs with floats ends up elsewhere on the page
might help.
Consider setting the first float to top of page, and the second one
to bottom.
Helge Hafting
