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Hi everyone (especially Mac users) -- LaTeXit has stopped working on my OS X for an unknown reason. I don't know if it was caused by recent software updates or something else, but I tried to run LaTeXiT and the icon would pop up on the dock and eventually stop bouncing, but it wouldn't run (no ...

Hello everyone. I'm trying to use the beamer theme "split" for my presentation. I'm having trouble setting the `author' field to be left-aligned rather than right aligned. Is there a straightforward way to do this?

Thanks,
F

It appears that there's a problem with hepthesis.cls in which the "letterpaper" option isn't being passed correctly to scrbook. If I replace the "hepthesis" document class in my example file with
\documentclass[letterpaper]{scrbook}
then the resulting document works perfectly fine, I end up with a ...

Unfortunately the setlength commands didn't help... I'm still getting A4 documents.

-F

Here you have to use letterpaper instead of letterpage .

Stefan

Ah! Indeed you are correct, thanks! However, I'm still only producing A4 documents rather than US letter-sized documents.

I tried poking around hepthesis.cls, and found that if I remove the "yes" on line 34:
\def\@useAFour{yes ...

Hi Stefan -- thanks for the replies. I've updated my versions of hepthesis and scrbook, below is the relevant part of the log file:

(./hepthesis.cls
Document Class: hepthesis 2008/05/23 HEP thesis class by Andy Buckley (v1.4.2)
(/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/koma-script/scrbook.cls ...

Hi Stefan, I checked with the latest version of hepthesis and I'm still getting some strange behavior.

If I compile this document:
\documentclass[]{hepthesis}

\title{An example}
\author{Exmple McExampleson}

\begin{document}

\begin{mainmatter}
\chapter{Example}
Test chapter.
\end{mainmatter ...

Hello everyone, I've been using the hepthesis class ( http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/hepthesis.html ) to typeset a document, but have found that my attempt to feed it the "letterpaper" option has been met with the error

LaTeX Warning: Unused global option(s):
[letterpaper ...

Hello everyone -- I've been writing a long document and wanted to include boxed text insertions for tangential discussions, like "info boxes." There are many ways to do this and most of them work fine, but I always run into a problem when the infobox becomes larger than the size of a page (or the ...

Hello -- thank you both for such prompt replies! After you said that you got the code to compile properly, I attempted it on a different computer and indeed it now seems to work. (I'm not sure what was going on previously -- if the first computer is still wonky I'll post a follow up reply when I get ...