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I went with the 2nd option, it's perfect, thankyou!

Not sure if I'm telling you what you already know but longtables don't automatically float, you can make them float by putting them in a completely separate document (just the table itself, no document header text) and then inserting that file into the document.

\afterpage{\clearpage\input{C ...

Back again! The line is perfect but a bit on the attention grabbing side. Would it be possible to change the colour of the line at all? Ideally to a nice light grey but a pale colour that will print as light grey in B&W would do.

You're a genius!
Thankyou!

Thankyou for your speedy reassurance

It doesn't work for everything but a very simple solution is to set up an environment with an indent

\newenvironment{myenvironment}{\leftskip=4cm \rightskip=0cm}

It may be a problem if you then try to use another environment inside that environment as I found they revert to the normal margins, but ...

Does anyone know if it's possible to create ruled margins in a document?

I'm writing up my thesis and I want to have the main story running through it but with large blocks of text inserted that are noticably different to the main text explaining certain aspects as I go (sounds confusing I know but ...

Hi everyone,

I'm a maths PhD student in a panic! My funding runs out at the end of the month and I really need to get a first draft to my supervisor by then. I'm having some problems with layout, not sure if it's Latex that's being awkward or me so I thought I'd come and get a second opinion on the ...