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Hello, It seems that I have a problem with tabs. For example, I can't format a hanging indent (EXP User's Guide pp. 154-155). I can see the first indent, the...
Juan Mari Alberdi
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May 6, 2004
3:51 pm
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Use the format paragraph (F2) and there you can specific a hanging indent for the first line of each paragraph. You don't need to do this with tabs. Jon Wilkin...
Wilkin, Jonathan L.
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May 6, 2004
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Thanks Jonathan for your tip. However, with only the format paragraph possibilities (F2) I can't find the way to formatting a hanging indent, I think you also...
Juan Mari Alberdi
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May 7, 2004
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F2 (Format paragraph) lets you specify the indentation for the left margin, the right margin, and the first line of paragraphs. If you specify a negative...
Jerry Thornhill
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May 7, 2004
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Yes, but that doesn't give me a hanging indent, like in the EXP manual, for example pp 154-155. Or in the little attachment. Juan ... [Non-text portions of...
Juan Mari Alberdi
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May 7, 2004
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But, Juan, the references on 144 are exactly what F2 does. Look at http://www.nvcc.edu/home/jwilkin/250/spring%202004/proof.wxp In particular, go look 1. and...
Wilkin, Jonathan L.
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May 7, 2004
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539
OK Jon, you are completely right. It seems that the left indentation also works as a tab in the first line. Then the manual would be redundant in their...
Juan Mari Alberdi
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May 7, 2004
5:59 pm
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Exp-perts, Recently I sent an EXP file to a colleague by e-mail attachment, and he replied that he would prefer to receive my paper in the form of a PDF file. ...
Frank Benford
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May 8, 2004
9:17 pm
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I have found that one version of the Adobe reader doesn't handle EXP to PDF very well. Make sure you have the latest reader as a first step. I'm not familiar...
Jerry Thornhill
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May 8, 2004
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Yes, I use PDF995. None of my students have complained about reading my files. I often check them after conversion and they seem OK to me. You can view some...
Jon Wilkin
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May 8, 2004
11:39 pm
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There are several things that can become a problem. The typical one is to be sure that the fonts are embedded (others do not have the special EXP fonts)....
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May 9, 2004
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Frank, use the freely-available ghostscript/ gsview postscript reader; they will convert from postscript to pdf without problems. You first print your exp file...
Kofi Anim-Appiah
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May 9, 2004
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I've been using pdfFactory (Web site www.pdffactory.com) for years now with no problem. The price is reasonable, I forgot but it's about $50. ... From: Frank...
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May 9, 2004
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EXPerts, Thanks to Jerry Thornhill, Jon Wilkin, Bill Davis, Kofi Anim-Appiah, and C. Quatch for their replies to my query. I should have said in my original...
Frank Benford
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May 9, 2004
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I had replied to a few folks that I generally had no problems except for some graphics would get washed out for presentations using Acrobat. I finally asked...
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May 10, 2004
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I recently created my first LaTeX file from a WXP document. I did so as the intended recipient could handle neither the WXP nor the PDF format for editing....
Cliff Lunneborg
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May 25, 2004
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You *have* to send the style files exptex.sty and expthmi.sty along with the *.tex file to get the intended result. They instruct LaTeX how to interpret some...
Christopher Atkin
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May 25, 2004
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Cliff, In order for text formatting (not math formula formatting) to be transferred to the LaTeX file, you should use the "LaTeX-oriented styles" described in ...
Simon Smith
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May 26, 2004
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Thanks, Simon. I'm always a bit beleaguered by terminology. When you say that one should use the "LaTeX-oriented styles" are you saying that, if a document is...
Cliff Lunneborg
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May 27, 2004
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Cliff, Yes, you should use one of the LaTeX-oriented style sheets instead of the Normal style sheet. The Normal style sheet does not contain any of the ...
Simon Smith
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May 27, 2004
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I have a chapter length document that in EXP gives the message "The document can be converted to LaTeX." The conversion works fine and a TeX docment is...
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May 29, 2004
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Dear all, The best way to overcome all those roblems generated by the process of converting exp documents to Latex is to encourage SIMON to incoporate, in...
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May 29, 2004
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I fail to see how bundling an implementation of LaTeX with EXP is going to solve any translation issues. EXP must still convert the document from its native...
Simon Smith
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May 30, 2004
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I want to edit the header for a document as follows : some text located at the center and the page numbers are with the left margin for an even page and...
Quach T
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Jul 3, 2004
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Please disregard my last email where the word "flushed" was missing. This is the correct one. I want to edit the header for a document as follows : some text...
Quach T
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Jul 3, 2004
12:28 am
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Check under formating headers/footers. Select odd and even to be different. Then when you go to the edit headers menu, you will get menus for even and odd...
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Jul 3, 2004
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As Bill said, use the header format. Look at the chapter in the link below and check out the header & footer formating. ...
Jon Wilkin
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Jul 3, 2004
1:41 am
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If you want to have text both centered and left-/right-flush, you should use the Hcenter box instead of paragraph centering. The Rflush box and paragraph ...
Simon Smith
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Jul 3, 2004
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I inadevertenly pressed something and have lost the functionality of the "F4" key. (Display Symbol Box) Yes, I know I can press Alt M S instead, but when I...
smithkjs
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Jul 28, 2004
1:54 pm
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You will have to identify the problem macro and delete it. You should not use the F4 key for the macro, at least not as the first key. Generally it is best...
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