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Hello everyone,

I am trying to insert some elements in between groups, but only if they are not starting the page. Specifically, I would like to put a line between two pieces of text if they are both in the same column on the same page, so that it is clear that they are separate elements. I can ...

Hey guys, thanks a whole bunch. Time to get to work!

I would like to be able to do something dependent on whether or not a counter is even. something like


\include{ifthen}
...
\ifthenelse{\isEven{mycounter}}
{% code for even case
}
{% code for odd case
}

\newcommand{\isEven}[1]{
\ifthenelse{ ??? }{TRUE}{FALSE}

}



The only thing is doing ...

Hello everyone,

I am typesetting a class for generating tests, and I would like to auto-generate an answer key at the end. I find that the syntax for \addcontentsline{}{}{} would work perfect for me, as I can just embed it directly into my question macro without any serious finagling and I have a ...

\includegraphics takes a width argument that will scale your graphic to the correct proportional size, so you can do something like


\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{calc}
...

\includegraphics[width=\textwidth * .75]{whatever.pdf}
\includegraphics[width=4in]{somegraphic.pdf}


or whatever set ...

Wow, this is exactly what I needed. Thanks a bunch!

Hello everyone,

I'm doing some typesetting and need to mix one-column and two-column text in the same document; the same page as well, if possible. As this is normally a class option, is there a way to change this method in the middle of the document?

Thanks in advance!

If you are running OS X and aren't a vicious console junkie like myself, just use TeXShop, which is the absolute best tex editor for people scared of the command line. It comes bundled with MacTeX, so it's a nice one-stop solution.

There's no simple way to ask this, so let me try:

I'm writing & maintaining a bunch of custom .cls and .sty files, and I really don't know how the inheritance scheme works. if I have a custom .cls file and use it in a document, and that .cls file has some \usepackage statements in it, can my ...

Basically, I wanted to remove all vertical stretch in my documents, so that when elements got rendered, everything started rendering at the top. What I've ended up doing is the first portion of what Kaveh Bazargan discussed in this talk: http://www.river-valley.tv/conferences/tex/practex2006 ...