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Hey guys!

I found an answer to my question by trial and error. Firstly, I removed the \arraystretch command completely, which made things a bit more neat. Secondly, I used a minipage-environment inside the table to create a static page for the actual abstract. Then I fiddled with cell heights and ...

My faculty has very strict policies on the appearance of a thesis. I'm trying to create a LaTeX thesis template for the faculty and I'm running into some problems with this table. I added a sample PDF of what it should look like.

The table needs to fill the page, and it needs to have "insert text ...

Hey!

I've pretty much got my thesis formatting figured out, just a few minor trims here and there left. One of them is the page numbering. I've used myheadings as my main page style, which makes the page number appear in the right edge of the header by default. However, my faculty wants it to ...

Hi xJippu,

Are encodings OS-specific... Or is it just a matter of what encoding you choose whilst saving your .tex file?

Yes to both. To understand this you may refer to http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Internationalization .

Thanks for that very informative link, hpesoj626, I read it ...

Hi xJippu, you can use utf8 as an option to inputenc since you are using an editor in Unicode mode.

This worked!! Thank you so much! Are encodings OS-specific, since in the examples on the course they used \usepackage[newansi]{inputenc} and it didn't work on my mac. Or is it just a matter of what ...

Hi all!

The short version: Newbie + macbook + texshop/texworks + äöå = problems

The long version:

I'm a total newbie to LaTeX, but am trying to make it work for my thesis sake. I'm a mechanical engineering student from Finland, whose only computer right now is a MacBook Pro. I'm going to start on ...