Helge Hafting wrote:
Herbert Voss wrote:
Helge Hafting wrote:
Latex does not seem to offer a proper way of aligning boxes by the
box top, but there is a simple workaround.
TeX offers everything ...
A minipage is nothing else than a box and it is aligned in
the same way as two characters a
Herbert Voss wrote:
Helge Hafting wrote:
Latex does not seem to offer a proper way of aligning boxes by the
box top, but there is a simple workaround.
TeX offers everything ...
A minipage is nothing else than a box and it is aligned in
the same way as two characters are aligned.
That offe
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 03:49:44PM +0100, Herbert Voss wrote:
> Helge Hafting wrote:
>
> >Latex does not seem to offer a proper way of aligning boxes by the
> >box top, but there is a simple workaround.
>
> TeX offers everything ...
Except undoing paragraph breaks.
SCNR.
Andre'
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
Herbert Voss writes:
Helge Hafting wrote:
Latex does not seem to offer a proper way of aligning boxes by the
box top, but there is a simple workaround.
TeX offers everything ...
Look-ahead beyond the paragraph?
Okay one can explicitly add an additional latex run to
Herbert Voss writes:
> Helge Hafting wrote:
> > Latex does not seem to offer a proper way of aligning boxes by the
> > box top, but there is a simple workaround.
>
> TeX offers everything ...
Look-ahead beyond the paragraph?
Okay one can explicitly add an additional latex run to determine where a
Helge Hafting wrote:
Latex does not seem to offer a proper way of aligning boxes by the
box top, but there is a simple workaround.
TeX offers everything ...
A minipage is nothing else than a box and it is aligned in
the same way as two characters are aligned.
Herbert
john wrote:
Another suggestion from Ross Moore works brilliantly.
Instead of a protected blank in the 1st line of each minipage, instead
put a TeX \null.
\null is a macro for \hbox{} which creates an empty box of zero
dimensions. This effectively forces the minipages to top align with the
very
Another suggestion from Ross Moore works brilliantly.
Instead of a protected blank in the 1st line of each minipage, instead
put a TeX \null.
\null is a macro for \hbox{} which creates an empty box of zero
dimensions. This effectively forces the minipages to top align with the
very top of the min
Hi John,
On 19/01/2006, at 5:14 PM, john wrote:
Aha!
I've got it working - Helge minipages + Ross Moore \html stuff:
Here's the solution:
1. Put \htmlonly latex tabular statement before the 1st minipage
2. replace the LyX hfill with a conditional \latexhtml{\hfill}{&}
3. Follow the 2nd minipa
Aha!
I've got it working - Helge minipages + Ross Moore \html stuff:
Here's the solution:
1. Put \htmlonly latex tabular statement before the 1st minipage
2. replace the LyX hfill with a conditional \latexhtml{\hfill}{&}
3. Follow the 2nd minipage with an \htmlonly \end{tabular}
Of course you h
Latex2html will not place 2 minipages side-by-side.
I got the official response from Ross Moore on the latex2html list.
He said that he did not bother to program a lookahead to see how to
stack minipages. In effect you have to write htmlonly code to force a
tabular environment around the minipages
On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 10:50 +0100, Helge Hafting wrote:
> john wrote:
>
> >On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 12:18 -0800, Rich Shepard wrote:
> >
> >
> >>On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, John O'Gorman wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>I have 6 books on Tex/LaTeX but not that one! Can you give us a brief
> >>>pointer to ho
john wrote:
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 12:18 -0800, Rich Shepard wrote:
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, John O'Gorman wrote:
I have 6 books on Tex/LaTeX but not that one! Can you give us a brief
pointer to how to fix it (or is it not fixable)?
John,
Yes, it's fixable. Let me paraphrase fro
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, john wrote:
Just a comment though. Helge was talking about using 2 minipages
side-by-side (Which Kevin and I have found to not top-align properly).Your
excerpt features 2 parbox structures side-by-side. Is the principle the
same?
If I read the book correctly, yes.
I'v
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 12:18 -0800, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, John O'Gorman wrote:
>
> > I have 6 books on Tex/LaTeX but not that one! Can you give us a brief
> > pointer to how to fix it (or is it not fixable)?
>
> John,
>
>Yes, it's fixable. Let me paraphrase from the book.
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, John O'Gorman wrote:
I have 6 books on Tex/LaTeX but not that one! Can you give us a brief
pointer to how to fix it (or is it not fixable)?
John,
Yes, it's fixable. Let me paraphrase from the book.
You want to place two parboxes of different heights side by side. The
Enrico Forestieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Put these lines in the preamble:
>
> \leftskip=1in
> \newcommand{\newmargin}[1]{\hangindent=1in\hangafter=-#1\break\leftskip=0in}
>
> and run latex a first time. Take note of where the pagebreak occurs.
> Then insert there (in ERT) the command \new
On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 03:12, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
>
> > This sounds good, but when I try it I get:
> >
> > XX
> > XX
> > XX
> > XX
> > John Hancock
> > 1234 Broadway Blvd.
> >
> > Both are set to TOP alignm
Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to concoct a LyX template to let me write letters on school
> letterhead, the last task for which I still rely on WordPerfect. Having
> looked at akletter, newlfm and komascript, I think komascript gives me
> my best shot,
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From: "Herbert Voss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 8:47 AM
Subject: Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX
Stephen Harris wrote:
I've read about widows and orphans:
http://tug.org/TeXnik/mai
Stephen Harris wrote:
I've read about widows and orphans:
http://tug.org/TeXnik/mainFAQ.cgi?file=layouts/widows
Herbert
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From: "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 8:56 AM
Subject: Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
Paul A. Rubin writes:
1. (This is the only major issue.) Our letterhea
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
What is explained??
Kevin,
The two minipages not being aligned at their top edges.
Rich
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Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | Author of "Quantifying Environmental
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM) | Impact Assessments Using Fuzzy
Rich Shepard writes:
> On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
[...]
>This is explained in Section 5.1.4, Problems With Vertical
> Placement (pp. 89-90) in Kopka and Daly, Guide to LaTeX, 4th Ed.
What is explained?? I was simply trying out Helge's "easy" solution. Is
there something in her
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
This sounds good, but when I try it I get:
XX
XX
XX
XX
John Hancock
1234 Broadway Blvd.
Both are set to TOP alignment; they are side-by-side, with suitable width
(100pt and 25%colwidth).
Kevin,
This
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 09:43 +0100, Helge Hafting wrote:
> >
> It is easy enough. :-)
> Insert two minipages, reduce the size from 100% of line to something smaller
> so they fit beside each other on the same line. Make sure they both use
> "top" alignment (default).
>
> In the first minipage, ins
Helge Hafting writes:
> It is easy enough. :-)
> Insert two minipages, reduce the size from 100% of line to something
> smaller so they fit beside each other on the same line. Make sure
> they both use "top" alignment (default).
This sounds good, but when I try it I get:
XX
XX
XX
XXX
john wrote:
On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 15:16 -0800, Rich Shepard wrote:
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, John O'Gorman wrote:
I am trying to put a logo at the top left of the page. Alongside the logo,
I want my business name in \Huge letters. (This is mainly for the purpose
of building web pages.)
Aha!
I've done it!
The secret was rather silly. It was in the includegraphics dialogue box.
I had been supplying a width and checking the maintain aspect ratio box.
Regardless of what size I set, latex2htnl was creating an tag
with WIDTH=470 HEIGHT=471.
Looking at Kevin's code, I noticed that he
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 04:19 +0100, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
> Attached is one rough suggestion (just cribbed together with some
> hard-wired values and not tried in a letter template.
Thanks for that. A different approach.
Unfortunately, latex2html could not render it properly.
The -ve vspace comm
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
Attached is one rough suggestion (just cribbed together with some
hard-wired values and not tried in a letter template.
Kevin,
Very nicely done!
Rich
--
Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | Author of "Quantifying Environmental
Applied Ecos
john writes:
> In fact I have a little progress. With a bit of bodging tables within
> tables I have got it how I like for DVI and PDF output.
> Unfortunately latex2html now stuffs up the logo (making it too big).
Attached is one rough suggestion (just cribbed together with some
hard-wired values
On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 16:23 -0800, Rich Shepard wrote:
>It probably _is_ easy when you know exactly how to do it. :-) I found this
> approach took me less time.
Yes.
In fact I have a little progress. With a bit of bodging tables within
tables I have got it how I like for DVI and PDF output.
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, john wrote:
Shrug. I had hoped it would be easy in LyX (because that's what I tell
everyone!)
John,
It probably _is_ easy when you know exactly how to do it. :-) I found this
approach took me less time.
Rich
--
Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | Author of "Qu
On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 15:16 -0800, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, John O'Gorman wrote:
>
> > I am trying to put a logo at the top left of the page. Alongside the logo,
> > I want my business name in \Huge letters. (This is mainly for the purpose
> > of building web pages.)
>
> John,
>
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, John O'Gorman wrote:
I am trying to put a logo at the top left of the page. Alongside the logo,
I want my business name in \Huge letters. (This is mainly for the purpose
of building web pages.)
John,
Something like the attached?
I did this in OO.o, trimmed the page s
I have a similar problem but not with a letter class.
I am trying to put a logo at the top left of the page.
Alongside the logo, I want my business name in \Huge letters.
(This is mainly for the purpose of building web pages.)
The problem is that the Name is vertically centred alongside the logo.
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 11:11:39AM +0100, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
> Paul A. Rubin writes:
>
> > 1. (This is the only major issue.) Our letterhead includes logos on
> > both the left side of the paper and along the top. Dealing with the
> > top is not a problem, but for the life of me I cannot find
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
Paul A. Rubin writes:
1. (This is the only major issue.) Our letterhead includes logos on
both the left side of the paper and along the top. Dealing with the
top is not a problem, but for the life of me I cannot find a way in
komascript to make the left margin two inche
Paul A. Rubin writes:
> 1. (This is the only major issue.) Our letterhead includes logos on
> both the left side of the paper and along the top. Dealing with the
> top is not a problem, but for the life of me I cannot find a way in
> komascript to make the left margin two inches on the first pag
From comp.text.tex (1996):
Eric Fruits ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (comp.text.tex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
wrote:
: I have letterhead with all the important info (logo, etc.) on the left
: margin, instead of the top or bottom of the page. Consequently, I'd
: like to hack the letter class in some way so t
On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 07:13:53PM +0100, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
>
> (I also think that one probably does not need the ifthenelse package for
> this; LaTex/TeX must have some basic logic controls built in, I think.)
Tex have it. The ifthenelse package isn't magic - like every other package
it co
Paul A. Rubin writes:
> Alas, that would force me to write the letter, finalize the content,
> see where the first page ended and manually adjust the remaining text
> to the second "letter".
That would be about the same as using a hand calculator every time the
computer needs to solve a math equa
On Sun, 15 Jan 2006, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
I noticed the reference to fuzzy logic in your sig. I take it you do a lot
of work for the government? :-) As I recall, fuzzy logic is built on fuzzy
truth: true; false; sort of true; true enough to fool the voters; ...
/Paul,
The last part of your
Martin A. Hansen wrote:
it is possible to tweak some of the distances between the blocks in a .lco
file for komascript letter v2.
pay attention to page 155 ff of srcguien.
martin
Thanks, Martin. The same tweaks can be done in the document preamble,
and they do let me adjust the position of
Stephen Harris wrote:
I was reading in Extended.lyx and Juergen mentions scrlttr2 as quite
configurable for writing letters with Koma-script. I see "logo"
mentioned in Chapter 6 of the document below (in English).
http://www.math.upenn.edu/tex_docs/latex/koma-script/scrguien.pdf
The scrlttr
Rich Shepard wrote:
Letters are about the only writing I do with OO.o; everything else is on
LyX. I, too, would like a business letter template (full block mode)
with my logo/letterhead on the first page and the recipient's name, the date, and
current page number on subsequent pages.
If y
ot; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To:
> Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 4:23 PM
> Subject: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX
>
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm trying to concoct a LyX template to let me write letters on school
> > letterhead, the l
- Original Message -
From: "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 4:23 PM
Subject: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX
Hi all,
I'm trying to concoct a LyX template to let me write letters on school
letterhead, th
On Sat, 14 Jan 2006, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
I'm trying to concoct a LyX template to let me write letters on school
letterhead, the last task for which I still rely on WordPerfect. Having
looked at akletter, newlfm and komascript, I think komascript gives me my
best shot, and I have a template that
Hi all,
I'm trying to concoct a LyX template to let me write letters on school
letterhead, the last task for which I still rely on WordPerfect. Having
looked at akletter, newlfm and komascript, I think komascript gives me
my best shot, and I have a template that just falls short of what I
ne
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