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by Jamwa
Thu Nov 08, 2012 11:05 am
Forum: Text Formatting
Topic: Problem with customized enumerating
Replies: 2
Views: 2773

Re: Problem with customized enumerating

Oh, wonderful! Thank you. I have been struggling with this
by Jamwa
Thu Nov 08, 2012 10:22 am
Forum: Text Formatting
Topic: Problem with customized enumerating
Replies: 2
Views: 2773

Problem with customized enumerating

I would like to enumerate with (a), (b), (c)... instead of the default 1, 2, 3...

So I have this snippet:

\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\title{\author{}}
\date{}
\begin{document}

\maketitle

\section{Start Here}

The core functions of the Division are as follows:

\begin{enumerate}[(a)]
\item ...
by Jamwa
Thu Oct 18, 2012 9:40 am
Forum: Others
Topic: Help with error: XeTeX is required to compile this document
Replies: 5
Views: 117259

Help with error: XeTeX is required to compile this document

Thanks Stefan. The code now generates a pdf well:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\setmainfont{Cantarell}
\begin{document}
\lipsum[1-3]
\end{document}
by Jamwa
Tue Oct 16, 2012 2:46 pm
Forum: Others
Topic: Help with error: XeTeX is required to compile this document
Replies: 5
Views: 117259

Re: Help with error: XeTeX is required to compile this docum

Let me upgrade and I will post the outcome
by Jamwa
Tue Oct 16, 2012 2:34 pm
Forum: Others
Topic: Help with error: XeTeX is required to compile this document
Replies: 5
Views: 117259

Help with error: XeTeX is required to compile this document

Hi Stefan,

use xelatex

I have just done that and quite a lot of output I get, but still error:

sh-4.1$ xelatex test_latex.tex
This is XeTeXk, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.996 (Web2C 7.5.6)
%&-line parsing enabled.
kpathsea: Running mktexfmt xelatex.fmt
fmtutil: running `xetex -ini -jobname=xelatex ...
by Jamwa
Tue Oct 16, 2012 2:21 pm
Forum: Others
Topic: Help with error: XeTeX is required to compile this document
Replies: 5
Views: 117259

Help with error: XeTeX is required to compile this document

I am fairly experienced with \LaTeX . So I wanted to change the default font and I have Googled around to find out I need to use and fontspec is what is recommended. Here we go:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\setmainfont{Palatino Linotype}
\begin{document ...
by Jamwa
Thu May 17, 2012 6:33 am
Forum: Page Layout
Topic: Problem with page numbering
Replies: 2
Views: 2708

Problem with page numbering

Aha, thanks for that.
I have interchanged them:

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\chapter*{Conclusion}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Conclusion}
and now it is OK
by Jamwa
Wed May 16, 2012 7:56 pm
Forum: Page Layout
Topic: Problem with page numbering
Replies: 2
Views: 2708

Problem with page numbering

Look at this code:

\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{report}
\usepackage[]{fullpage}
%\usepackage{graphics}

% Title Page
\title{
Prepared by \\John Doe\\
}

\date{May 2012}
\author{John Doe}

\begin{document}
\pagenumbering{roman}
\maketitle
\tableofcontents
\thispagestyle{empty}

\chapter*{Project ...
by Jamwa
Mon May 07, 2012 3:26 pm
Forum: Text Formatting
Topic: Missing Spaces between Words after Superscript
Replies: 2
Views: 7493

Missing Spaces between Words after Superscript

Oh, thank you very much. I want the {1} as a superscript. This now works OK:

\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{report}
\usepackage[]{fullpage}

% Title Page
\title{
\author{}
}


\begin{document}
\maketitle
\tableofcontents

\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Mwanzo}\chapter*{Mwanzo}
\addcontentsline{toc ...
by Jamwa
Mon May 07, 2012 3:01 pm
Forum: Text Formatting
Topic: Missing Spaces between Words after Superscript
Replies: 2
Views: 7493

Missing Spaces between Words after Superscript

This script produces a line with no spacing in between words. What am I doing wrong please?

\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{report}
\usepackage[]{fullpage}
\usepackage{graphics}

% Title Page
\title{
}


\begin{document}
\maketitle
\tableofcontents


\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Mwanzo}\chapter ...