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I am trying to use a CV template, but I would like to increase the width of the leftmost column, the one starting with "Lehman Brothers" in italics (see the attached code and PDF output). How can I do that? I'd be very grateful for any help.

I have just installed WinEdt on a new PC, and I get the following problem when trying to view a DVI file using Yap. First, I get the following error message:

MiKTeX Problem Report
Message: Invalid argument
Data:
Source: Libraries\MiKTeX\Core\FileStream.cpp
Line: 116
MiKTeX: 2.9

Then, I get lots ...

Sorted it. One needs to use
Source:

http://chenfuture.wordpress.com/2011/11 ... -in-latex/

I am using the cases environment in the amsbook document class. The problem I have is that the curly brace appears to be a bit too large. For example, see the code below.


\[
(q)_n=
\begin{cases}
{1}, & n=0,\\
{q(q+1)\ldots (q+n-1)}, & n>0.
\end{cases}
\]


It gives the attached result. This ...

In case anyone else needs it, I have found the solution here:

http://www.ams.org/faq?faq_id=238

I am using the amsbook class to write my thesis. According to the university requirements, the abstract page needs to include the title and the author as well, as follows:


\chapter*{Title}
\section*{Author}
\vspace{1.5cm}
\section*{Abstract}


However, I would like it to be listed in the Table ...

Many thanks for your very useful advice! I ended up choosing the first alternative, by the way.

I am using document class AMSBook to write my thesis. One of the appendices is very short, with only the \chapter but no \section . I list three results (lemma, theorem, proposition) in this appendix. They appear as follows

Lemma D.0.2
Theorem D.0.3
Proposition D.0.4

I understand that the ".0" bit ...

Thanks! Changing the labels to uppercase fixed the problem. Earlier I had seen that the warnings complained about them being undefined, but I didn't realise that the case was the problem.

I am using the document class AMSBook to write my thesis. One of the appendices has the title "Proof of Lemma \ref{LemmaLabel}". In the text, the title appears as it should (i.e., with the appropriate reference number). However, the page header says "Proof of Lemma ??". Is there some way this ...