> \textwidth does not seem to be behaving consistently.
Wrong, \textwidth is 1000% reliable, like the rest of TeX and LaTeX. You
do however have to use it "within specifications": inside preamble only.
I have found it to also be functional if one changes it and then forces
a page break. Thta's not
On Thursday 07 September 2006 17:39, Ross Drummond wrote:
> Calling all TeXperts and TeXnicians.
>
> I am creating a printed form using LaTeX.
>
> I am trying to use various tabular styles to lay out the form.
>
> My success in getting the various tabular styles to do what I want could be
> generou
On Fri, 08 Sep 2006 13:48, Steve Holdoway wrote:
> I'm being serious. Why do you treat html as a joke in this context?
The process will be completely paper based so it never occured to me to use
html.
Based on your recomendation I will investigate html.
Cheers Ross Drummond
On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 13:31 +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote:
> Do it the easy way... html.
Ha! (I can assure you that getting HTML/CSS to do what you want is often
quite hard ☺)
On Fri, 08 Sep 2006 13:44:01 +1200
Ross Drummond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 08 Sep 2006 13:31, Steve Holdoway wrote:
>
> > > I am creating a printed form using LaTeX.
>
> > Do it the easy way... html.
> >
> > Steve
>
> Do it the easy way ... html - using Frontpage. KABOOM!!
>
> Thank
On Fri, 08 Sep 2006 13:31, Steve Holdoway wrote:
> > I am creating a printed form using LaTeX.
> Do it the easy way... html.
>
> Steve
Do it the easy way ... html - using Frontpage. KABOOM!!
Thank you thank you. Did you hear the one about the politicians and the
tropical disease.
On Fri, 08 Sep 2006 11:11, Roy Britten wrote:
> On 07/09/06 17:39, Ross Drummond wrote:
> > I am creating a printed form using LaTeX.
> >
> > I am trying to use various tabular styles to lay out the form.
>
> This doesn't answer your question, but do you *have* to use LaTeX? Would
> another tool (m
On Thu, 07 Sep 2006 17:39:49 +1200
Ross Drummond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Calling all TeXperts and TeXnicians.
>
> I am creating a printed form using LaTeX.
>
> I am trying to use various tabular styles to lay out the form.
>
> My success in getting the various tabular styles to do what I w
On Fri, 08 Sep 2006 10:20, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
> You're keen, but if it's for automated batch processing of data which
> comes from some source, choices are limited.
> Syntax, nesting, spacing, ... not too bad though. The degree of
> difficulty depends on what you want to achieve, how much thi
On 07/09/06 17:39, Ross Drummond wrote:
> I am creating a printed form using LaTeX.
>
> I am trying to use various tabular styles to lay out the form.
This doesn't answer your question, but do you *have* to use LaTeX? Would
another tool (maybe scribus?) fit your requirements better? What are
your
> I am creating a printed form using LaTeX.
You're keen, but if it's for automated batch processing of data which
comes from some source, choices are limited.
> I am trying to use various tabular styles to lay out the form.
>
> My success in getting the various tabular styles to do what I want c
On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 17:39 +1200, Ross Drummond wrote:
> Anyone on the list have any recommendations for a tabular style that is easy
> to use and fully featured?
My LaTeX Companion is elsewhere at the moment, but I can recall that the
array style is quite good.
Calling all TeXperts and TeXnicians.
I am creating a printed form using LaTeX.
I am trying to use various tabular styles to lay out the form.
My success in getting the various tabular styles to do what I want could be
generously be described as mixed.
Anyone on the list have any recommendation
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