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Fannnnnnnnntastic. Thank you!!

Greetings,

I am working on my dissertation defense slides and I wanted to have a slide that looks approx like this:

Line
Line

item }
item } Description
item }

Where the three braces to the right of the items will be one large brace.
My thought was to try and do this using an array with a \mbox ...

okay, so apparently Miktex 2.8 was much more forgiving re: Local Tex files. With 2.9, I needed to create a second sub-folder inside my Local Tex File folder for bibtex; i.e. Local Tex Files\bibtex\bst\misc. I didn't need to do that with 2.8 but oh well.

I recently downloaded miktex2.9 - now I cannot use custom *.bst files that I made using the custom-bib package. I get the following errors:


I couldn't open style file *.bst
---line *** of file *.aux
: \bibstyle{*
: }
I'm skipping whatever remains of this command
I found no style file---while ...

Is anyone familiar with the iopart class - it's for use with IoP journals. Specifically, I am having problems with making a bibliography. It seems to conflict with natbib.sty and I am having trouble getting harvard.sty to work as well (which is supposed to be the accompanying bibTeX style file for ...

I recently updated my MikTex2.8 and now I cannot generate output while using the harvard.sty bibliography style (other styles work, however). I get no errors or warnings when I try to compile (using TeXnicCenter), but it basically just stops running. Has anyone else had problems with harvard after ...

You da man, Stefan - that worked great!

Thanks!!

-NolaN

Hi Stefan,

Thank you for your response. Here is a MWE which should show you the asterisk problem I initially wrote about. I noticed something as I was creating this file for you, though - I think the uconnthesis.cls is conflicting with my attempt to use bibtex. For this MWE, I removed the reference ...

Thanks for the reply - the .cls file is available here:

http://www.phys.uconn.edu/computers/lat ... prospectus

it's the 'uconnthesis.cls' file

Thanks again,

-N

Hello everyone,

I'm new to the forum and fairly new to the more involved features of LaTeX. I've written exams and papers before without any real trouble, but I am preparing to write my thesis and am having some formatting issues. My university has a "thesis template" on its webpage which I want to ...