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Thanks Thorsten, that reply was very helpful. Now that I know I am not doing anything wrong in my LaTeX document I will try focus my attention on fixing it within MathType.

Hi,

I have created a simple equation using MathType 6.9 and exporting it to "AMSLaTeX" or "AMSTeX" results in errors from my LaTeX document. However, exporting it as "LaTeX 2.09 and later" works perfectly.

Before I start complaining to MathType that they might have a bug in their program I wanted ...

Sorry, problem existed between keyboard and chair, everything works as expected.

Thanks again for all your help

Well that sets the box width to half the page but doesn't centre the box horizontally within the page width.

Thanks for spotting my silly mistake and tidying up the libraries and styles. I have taken it further by removing the need of a parameter and reduced the duplication by placing the \tikzset command into the \newcommand :
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{showframe}% to visualize page dimensions ...

Hi,

I am currently working on the Tikz package using the example found here:
http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/boxes-with-text-and-math/

Where the following example works perfectly:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum} % To generate test text
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{shapes ...

Thanks for your help; I have successfully managed to apply horizontal rules between list items in my PDFs.

Hi,

I have the following list:
\documentclass[12]{article}

\newenvironment{questions}{
\begin{list}{*}{}
}{
\end{list}
}

\newenvironment{question}{\item}{}

\begin{document}
Hello world
\begin{questions}

\begin{question}Item one\end{question}
\begin{question}Item two\end{question}
\begin ...

Its Ok, as long as my previous method works I dont mind if your suggested method returns different results that you might expect.

One thing I have found is that I really only need to adjust the numwidth on the first table of contents. To save space am I able to detect if I am on the first table of ...

Thanks for the suggestion but that pushes the page number to the right as well.