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Thanks jjt3,

I abandoned the install because I couldn't get it to work.

When I get some time I will try this.

Thanks,
Frank

I don't know if this would be helpful to anyone but I made a quick sty install script (for *nix). Anyone who uses it would have to change the texdir variable to the correct path for your distribution.

Usage (assuming saved as styinstall):
styinstall package.sty


#!/bin/sh
file=`echo $1 | sed -e ...

Thanks gmedina,


an alternative is fp

The problem is that I'm installing realcalc because it's a dependency for this invoice package.

After hearing your point that realcalc has issues, I'm thinking a simpler solution would be to make a PHP script do all the calculations and then layout a LaTeX ...

I am trying to install the invoice package which requires, among other things, the realcalc package. I can't figure out how to install it.

Here are the installation instructions:

Installation:
Put the file realcalc.tex where your TeX looks for inputs.
Name a copy realcalc.sty to use as a LaTeX ...

I am trying to define a \newenvironment in a class I am designing.

The environment has to print only in the HTML output and be ignored by LaTeX otherwise. However, I am getting an error:

(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/hyperref/nameref.sty))
Runaway argument?

! File ended while scanning use of ...

Thanks again! Call me dyslexic.


this line seems a little odd to me: \documentclass[english]{article}; why do you declare english as a global option?


It is automatically generated by LyX. I think it has to do with the package babel. To make the post cleaner I removed the line:
\usepackage ...

Thanks gmedina,

That cleared up a good bit about how to use the package. I read the documention but I'm still learning a good bit about LaTeX and couldn't quite figure out what to do.

I changed the example you gave, to printing three text lines, and I have one minor problem.

The following code ...

Can someone please point me in the right direction with this titling package?

I have no idea how to make it work. All I'm trying to do, to start with, is make a title with a line above it and a line below it.

I know in this example I can do this:

\title{This is the pretitle\\
This is the title ...

I have found that Hevea does what I am looking for.

Hi,

I have a situation where a collaborative effort is being made to convert articles and small booklets into HTML for a website. These articles and booklets also need to be printed from time to time and that is why I think LaTex would be ideal - using LYX as the editor. The reason for LYX is that ...