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thanks. that solved it.

Hello,

I need to stop one instance of one word from hyphenating. Any ideas? The word "radio" in one of my captions is hyphenating in the "list of figures" and it is not allowed by my department. The word is being hyphenated as "ra-dio". I would prefer to just "fix" this one instance, with no ...

How can I stop hyphenation in my TOC, list of figures, and list of tables, but keep it on the rest of my dissertation? I would prefer to not have to use a package that I'm not already using since the rest of the dissertation is correctly formatted and I don't want to risk changing something in the ...

Can't believe how dumb I am. You are right, it wasn't the conversion to PDF but the way I was printing the PDF.

Thanks

Good morning,

I'm having some formatting issues. I'm using Winshell as my editor. When I create a document and view/print it using DVI, my margins are correct. When I create the document, convert to PS and then PDF, my margins change by about 1/8 of an inch.

Any idea what is going on?

Thanks. That seems to work.

I'm writing my dissertation and need help with appendices. My knowledge of Latex is very limited.

When I reference a figure, equation or a table in my appendices, I get an extra space (i.e. A .1 or B .4). For my regular chapters,
it looks like this: 1.2 , 5.4. Where is the extra space coming from ...

Thanks. That worked great. Just out of curiosity, how would I modify the \@chapter macro?

I'm writing my dissertation and need help with my TOC. My knowledge of Latex is very limited. The TOC needs to look like this example:

1. Introduction

1.1 Motivation
1.2 Method

2. Background

3. Stuff

3.1 Stuff 1
3.2 Stuff 2

(The sections should be indented to the first letter in the ...

thanks. that worked.

Now to search for answers on formatting the TOC.