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by rick1980
Sun Nov 15, 2009 9:00 pm
Forum: BibTeX, biblatex and biber
Topic: one comma too much in reference
Replies: 0
Views: 1523

one comma too much in reference

Hi,

I'm my references (in the text) seem to have a comma to much. Thats how the reference looks like in the text:

bla bla bla (Berrar, Stahl, Silva, Rodrigues, & Brito, 2005).

Well the comma after Rodrigues is surely not supposed to be there.

Thats how I include my references in the text ...
by rick1980
Sun Nov 15, 2009 4:36 am
Forum: General
Topic: Wrong hyphenation
Replies: 8
Views: 12940

Re: Wrong hyphenation

Well my university has not official latex template. This template is from elsewhere but has been adapted to my universities format from a lecturer that recently retired. Sorry :(
by rick1980
Sat Nov 14, 2009 6:03 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Wrong hyphenation
Replies: 8
Views: 12940

Wrong hyphenation

Sorry have been sick the past 2 days so couldn't reply.

Well, I have tried your advice and created a small project with little text.
I found out that it hyphenates "empirically" still the American way not the British
one. Well I am starting to believe despite what all the English people over here ...
by rick1980
Wed Nov 11, 2009 6:52 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Wrong hyphenation
Replies: 8
Views: 12940

Wrong hyphenation

Thanks for your help!

Well I have included

\usepackage[UKenglish]{babel}

and get now the following output with a lot of errors that were not there before.
Until the line with the overfull hbox everything is fine from then the the errors are new since I included the statement above in the ...
by rick1980
Wed Nov 11, 2009 4:41 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Wrong hyphenation
Replies: 8
Views: 12940

Re: Wrong hyphenation

Thanks for the answer!

Well The Merriam-Webster dictionary does not say anything about hyphenations the hyphens there are just to illustrate pronunciation. I asked now several British English native speakers and they all tell me to hyphen it

"empiri - cally"

I seriously need to hyphenate it ...
by rick1980
Tue Nov 10, 2009 5:04 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Wrong hyphenation
Replies: 8
Views: 12940

Wrong hyphenation

Hi,

I have been searching the forum if there is any similar post, but I didn't quite
find what I was searching for. Well my problem is that the hyphenation does not
seem right, for example it hyphenates "empirically" like that: "empir-ically"

I'm not a native speaker but this seems very odd to me ...
by rick1980
Tue Nov 03, 2009 8:16 pm
Forum: Fonts & Character Sets
Topic: verbatim font size
Replies: 2
Views: 22069

Re: verbatim font size

Thx, that works!

I actually thought id wouldn't because \begin{center} does not.

anyway thanks a lot!!!
by rick1980
Tue Nov 03, 2009 6:51 pm
Forum: Fonts & Character Sets
Topic: verbatim font size
Replies: 2
Views: 22069

verbatim font size

Hey ho,

I need to make the font size of the verbatim environment smaller is there any way to do that? I'm using TexLive with Kile.

Regards
Rick
by rick1980
Tue Nov 03, 2009 6:46 pm
Forum: New Members
Topic: The new guy
Replies: 2
Views: 2079

The new guy

Hi,

I'm Rick and I'm attempting to write my PhD thesis in latex. Now I'm just
about to submit it and a view things have come up that trouble me, ergo I
registered here to seek help :)
:)
Rick