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Hi there,

1) Where I could get samples of border ornaments or fancy documents and their corresponding codes.

2) How can I set up border ornaments in my documents?

I found the following code by Thierry Bouche, but I was unable to make it work:

\newlength\ornamentlength
\settowidth\ornamentlength ...

Hi there,
Thanks for the input. I will look into it. About the verse environment, I just don't like the initial indentation that comes with it. Medina, thanks for the grammatical correction I have not proof read my work yet

Hi Thorsten and Medina,

Thanks for your help. My knowledge of Latex is at best amateurish and certainly rudimentary. My approach is basically that of try and error-- I try commands until I obtain a desire visual effect. For instance I wanted to start my preface with a left flushed quote. Check what ...

Hi Stefan,
Thank you, it work!

I justified a quote to the right, preceding a verse which is flushed to the left. The problem is that no matter what I do, Latex will not put double space between the quote and the verse.

This is the code I used:

\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{\bf Siempre \dotfill}
\chapter*{Siempre}

\begin ...

Wow!!! Thanks a lot. I will look into all your suggestions. Somehow I managed to do a dissertation in Latext but it was in English. Again, thanks you for your promptly response, it is good to know that you can get help. Hasta la victoria siempre.

Sorry I am new in the forum. I am working on a book in Spanish and I need to change the title of the content table from "Content" to "Indice." How do I do that?

Here is what I have:

\documentclass[12pt]{report}

\usepackage{amstext,amsthm,amsmath,amssymb,amscd,amsfonts,graphicx,latexsym,astron ...