Re: [SOLVED] Re: silly little text problem

2008-06-17 Thread Marcos José Sant'Anna Magalhães
just letting people know ... i exported a pdf (indented as you asked) from OpenOffice and called pdf2ps ... I think it does what you want :) Marcos On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 07:59:53AM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: >

[SOLVED] Re: silly little text problem

2008-06-16 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 07:59:53AM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 03:50:27PM -0500, Jordi Guti?rrez Hermoso wrote: > >>On 15/06/2008, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> My wife has a poem she wants typed up in a particular format:

Re: silly little text problem

2008-06-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 12:46:07AM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > \\~\\ is an easy-to-remember way to force output of a blank line. And saves a line in the source. > It is good to know alternative commands, because in some situations > one command works while another command doesn't, and the r

Re: silly little text problem

2008-06-15 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080616 00:14]: > On 15/06/2008, Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Interesting, I have been using "\newline". Where did you find out out > > about the "\\~\\" method? > > \\ seems to be a synonym for \newline, or maybe it's one of those T

Re: silly little text problem

2008-06-15 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
On 15/06/2008, Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Interesting, I have been using "\newline". Where did you find out out > about the "\\~\\" method? \\ seems to be a synonym for \newline, or maybe it's one of those TeX vs LaTeX things (e.g. $$...$$ vs \[...\]). And ~ is a space. So newl

Re: silly little text problem

2008-06-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 09:58:25PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: [..] > \indent the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution\\ > \indent for the United States of America.\\~\\ > \noindent The deist sees the universe as a vast and intricate mechanism,\\ [..] > In this example, the const

Re: silly little text problem

2008-06-15 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080615 19:07]: > My wife has a poem she wants typed up in a particular format: > > First line unindented > next four lines indented > next line unindented > next four lines indented > > space > > next four lines unindented. > > It goes on like

Re: silly little text problem

2008-06-15 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 03:50:27PM -0500, Jordi Guti?rrez Hermoso wrote: On 15/06/2008, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My wife has a poem she wants typed up in a particular format: First line unindented next four lines indented next line unindent

Re: silly little text problem

2008-06-15 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 03:50:27PM -0500, Jordi Guti?rrez Hermoso wrote: > On 15/06/2008, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My wife has a poem she wants typed up in a particular format: > > > > First line unindented > > next four lines indented > > next line unindented > >

Re: silly little text problem

2008-06-15 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
On 15/06/2008, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My wife has a poem she wants typed up in a particular format: > > First line unindented > next four lines indented > next line unindented You may want to use the verse environment for this. It's in the texlive-humanities packa

Re: silly little text problem

2008-06-15 Thread Alfredo Finelli
On Sunday 15 June 2008 21:59, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > Hello all, > > I've got a silly little problem that I can't seem to solve. > > I normally do my letters and other writing in LaTex. > > My wife has a poem she wants typed up in a particular format: > > First line unindented > next four l

Re: silly little text problem

2008-06-15 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 03:59:25PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > My wife has a poem she wants typed up in a particular format: > > First line unindented > next four lines indented > next line unindented > next four lines indented > > space > > next four lines unindented. > > It g

silly little text problem

2008-06-15 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
Hello all, I've got a silly little problem that I can't seem to solve. I normally do my letters and other writing in LaTex. My wife has a poem she wants typed up in a particular format: First line unindented next four lines indented next line unindented next four lines indented