Re: exdented paragraphs

1999-09-03 Thread mressler
On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Amir Karger wrote: > > You might have to resort to plain TeX to get what you want. > > Huh? > > Why not \setlength{\parindent}{-.2in}, e.g.? (You could move in the left > margin first and then exdent if you want.) That was the third command. Anyway, make certain to put this

Re: exdented paragraphs

1999-09-03 Thread Amir Karger
On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 08:48:17AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > > I think we started on this one, too. In the latex books I've checked, > > I haven't found a way to have exdented (negative indent) paragraphs > > such as this one, whi

Re: exdented paragraphs

1999-09-03 Thread mressler
On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > I think we started on this one, too. In the latex books I've checked, > I haven't found a way to have exdented (negative indent) paragraphs > such as this one, which are the natural format for a number of > things that I do. > > I woul

exdented paragraphs

1999-09-03 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
I think we started on this one, too. In the latex books I've checked, I haven't found a way to have exdented (negative indent) paragraphs such as this one, which are the natural format for a number of things that I do. I would expect that there's a trivial way to do this, but I have

Re: exdented paragraphs, and resume-type issues

1999-05-17 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Amir" == Amir Karger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Amir> On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 03:47:59PM -0400, Richard E. Hawkins Amir> Esq. wrote: >> > Have you looked at Jean-Marc's cv.layout for hints/things to >> steal? In fact, > you might even be able to get help from the >> author. >> >> No, i

Re: exdented paragraphs, and resume-type issues

1999-05-16 Thread Martin Vermeer
Suggestion: \newcommand{\exdent}[2]{% \advance \hsize by #1 \moveleft#1\vtop{#2} }% Use as: \exdent{0.5in}{The body of text you want to be exdented. The ``advance'' statement takes care of keeping the right margin in place.} HTH :-) Martin

Re: exdented paragraphs, and resume-type issues

1999-05-16 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
amir ameliorated, > Still choking: > > Unexpected interpreter error -17. > Error object: > Unrecoverable error: stackunderflow in begin > (f80)op(145:begin)0x465850Execution stack at 0x1003e3a8: > 0x100496a8: 0x0f oper --F---e-- 0x 0x00456cb4 = %interp_exit > 0x100496b0: 0x12 str --F-rxe--

Re: exdented paragraphs, and resume-type issues

1999-05-16 Thread Amir Karger
On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 11:34:05AM -0400, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > odd, but me too . . . ghostview and gv seem to be rendering it quite > differently. Using preview, lyx launches gv, under which it renders > fine. Using export-ps (which I used for the attachement), it produces a > fil

Re: exdented paragraphs, and resume-type issues

1999-05-15 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
amir added, > > I've attached postscript this time; aside from the exdent, this is what > > I think the appearance should be. Hmm, i don't know if it looks ok > > without the parkave postscript font installed . . . > It choked my ghostview and (SGI) showps. odd, but me too . . . ghostview an

Re: exdented paragraphs, and resume-type issues

1999-05-15 Thread Amir Karger
On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 03:47:59PM -0400, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > > > Have you looked at Jean-Marc's cv.layout for hints/things to steal? In fact, > > you might even be able to get help from the author. > > No, i didn't even realize it existed . . . Jean-Marc is apparently too busy wi

exdented paragraphs, and resume-type issues

1999-05-14 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
I'm stumped. I've managed to force the letter class, with a huge preamble, to come up looking like a resume, with a nice typeface for the name&address on the initial page, an upper left label on later pages, and email/web formatted at the bottom of the first page. But a few things come up:

Re: exdented paragraphs, and resume-type issues

1999-05-14 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
> Have you looked at Jean-Marc's cv.layout for hints/things to steal? In fact, > you might even be able to get help from the author. No, i didn't even realize it existed . . . > I tried to use it for a > while on my CV, and gave up for no good reason (except that I may not have > easy access t

Re: exdented paragraphs, and resume-type issues

1999-05-14 Thread Amir Karger
On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 03:21:32PM -0400, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > > I'm stumped. I've managed to force the letter class, with a huge > preamble, to come up looking like a resume, with a nice typeface for > the name&address on the initial page, an upper left label on later > pages, an