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Thanks for all the advice. I suspect our IT department will have a problem with the opening line "To the best of our knowledge, all software in the XXXXX distribution is freely available..." since that doesn't mean it is necessarily free to copy. However my colleagues and I will try and put together ...

It's generally expected that everything is produced using Microsoft applications in our institution. My colleagues and I are understandably upset/furious about this refusal to support LaTeX and before we take this issue further, it would be nice to know if there's a workaround others have used.

Like many people here, I work for a university and make significant use of LaTeX in all aspects of my work. However the IT group at my university are now refusing to install LaTeX on staff machines because of licensing issues. Specifically their complaint is that while LaTeX is open source there is ...

The white text is a smart idea - thanks frabjous :D But while it doesn't prevent pictures from being displayed a minor tweak that incoorporates a vspace of the same dimensions as the picture has done the trick.

Also phi's suggestions works great for a short line of text. However when the text runs ...

Hi guys

I always thought I was handy with LaTeX but I'm stuck! I'm trying to write some lecture notes that will either display some text (for my personal copy) or leave a blank space of the same size (that my students will fill in during the lecture) depending on how the file is compiled. Currently ...