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In the end I did this:

\begin{center}
\framebox[4in]{
\begin{minipage}[t]{3.5in}
{\Large{\bomb}} Take care with this option.
There is a bug in the rich-text editor
that can remove blank lines from content body. Check your work.
\end{minipage}
}
\end{center}

to use the bomb I needed ...

Hi there.

I am producing a user manual.

I would like to include 'Top Tip', 'NB' or 'Warning' passages from time to time (similar to the ones used in O'Reilly books)

I would, of course, like to include a logo or a symbol. I wondered what preferred methods were here and if any of the community ...

Thank-you Stefan, that does it.

Dicky.

Hi.

I've not tried much with tables yet. What I would like to achieve is a heading spanning two columns with the line dividing columns below centered under this heading.

This is my minimum working example:

\documentclass[]{article}

\usepackage{multicol}

\begin{document}

\begin{tabular}{c|c ...

Hi there.

I am putting together a way of generating company invoices.

I am aware of the invoice package but it seems a little limited to me.

I wondered what users experience was here. Is the invoice package the way to go?

I am considered a bespoke table instead.

Many thanks for any replies ...

That is superb, many thanks.

dt

Hi there.

I am putting together a brochure - on the fourth page is a form customers can fill in and fax over.

I would like the bit where they put their name to be underlined with dots.
\dotfill is of course very good at filling the rest of the line with dots.

I am hoping to get something that ...

Fixed it.

Removed as many tex and texlive packages as I could find.

Got a problem with lmodern:
/etc/defoma/hints/lmodern.hints: Unable to open, or empty

so I downloaded .deb file for lmodern, extracted the lmodern.hints file to /etc/defoma/hints and used apt to install all the tex and texlive ...

Hi.

Recently I suffered a disk crash and have been getting lots of 'Overfull hbox' warnings and text from one frame running over to the next while previously these words were being hyphenated across lines. Some warnings are very large, such as:

Overfull \hbox (27.59291pt too wide) in paragraph at ...

Many thanks Faust for trying to help.

I am using twocolumn. Currently I have a minipage with enough text in it to take up all of one column. At the top of the other column I would like my table of contents and below that some 'contact us' information.

I wonder if I should have the table of ...