Stephan Lehmke

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TeX enthusiast since almost 25 years and making a living from it since almost 10.

Member of DANTE, the german user group, I organised their user meeting in dortmund in '99.

I'm the author of the hopefully-long-forgotten TeXPower package and a commercial data based publishing system named DocScape which can do wondrous things ;-)

email: Stephan.Lehmke@QuinScape.de

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May 16	comment	How to highlight arabic texts with allowing line breaks? I don't think this will allow line breaks, which was a condition.
May 12	comment	Searching for a LaTeX Processor I think your best starting point would be a LaTeX-to-something converter, as it also needs to extract this information. As a start, look here or here. But converting LaTeX to anything has been a hairy task always for the reasons mentioned by @DavidCarlisle, so don't expect too much. Better start with XML and convert to LaTeX.
May 12	comment	Horizontal boxes in article class Looks like a job for `tabular` to me.
May 12	comment	XML or other markup to LaTeX? With `xmltex` you can directly parse and evaluate XML from LaTeX.
May 6	comment	tabular environment that is similar to html Somehow the interline spacing looks odd...
May 6	comment	Prevent new sections to start on the lower part of page If you want more lines to keep together after a section heading, you can say for instance `\interlinepenalties 5 10000 10000 10000 10000 10000` after the section command to keep five lines together.
May 6	comment	tabular environment that is similar to html @topskip Please do. I'd like to see the LaTeX version too :-)
May 6	comment	tabular environment that is similar to html If you're just looking for the calculation of column widths, it seems `tabulary` and `tabu` offer this (maybe I'll sometime publish DocScape's table model as a LaTeX package, that would be the third option then...).
May 6	comment	How can I lower an \xrightarrow @barbarabeeton As this seems to settle the issue, could you please post an answer?
May 4	comment	Beautiful table samples Er... Most of the examples there look really awful :-(
Apr 24	comment	Notes overflowing from marginpar to footer @Mårten In a onesided document, all pages are "right" pages by default, so the right margin is the "outer" one, to be used for notes. As the layout produced is in some sense "n+1 columns", with n columns below and one (longer) column on the side, the flow can only be from the leftmost to the rightmost column. I think one could add some configuration for your needs, but maybe it would be better to pose a new question? On a long term perspective, I'm planning to make a package from this.
Apr 8	comment	What makes my line get shifted to the left when I invoke \LoadConstants? @Herbert is right, adding `\pst@killglue` after the `\FPeval` statement solves the problem.
Apr 7	comment	different type areas on even/odd pages @DanielE.Shub Yep, correct. DocScape does this with TeX behind, in the manner David suggests: When a paragraph breaks "off" from one page to the next, it will be re-typeset with a parshape to reflect the new width. Note however that DocScape has a page model which is at the same time richer and poorer than that of LaTeX. For instance, in DocScape, paragraphs like to go in a fixed place on the page immediately after being typeset.
Apr 2	comment	How to use the pullquote package on a two-column layout? @user Would it be okay if I reformulated your question to be more general?
Apr 2	comment	How to use the pullquote package on a two-column layout? A general question on how to get this kind of layout would not be too localized though.
Apr 2	comment	How to use the pullquote package on a two-column layout? Just to confirm I've seen this question ;-) I agree it would be better posed as a bug report on the launchpad site or in the answers to packages chat room.
Feb 21	comment	Typesetting limitations of LaTeX Especially tables are not a good example of a TeX limitation wrt. DTP programs ;-)
Feb 19	comment	Different radii of rounded corners in same draw command in TikZ Is there a list of settings which can be used this way? It doesn't work for line width or line color I assume.
Feb 14	comment	How to (automatically) determine a visually appealing line spread? Also, if this is a typical notation you use a lot, you could consider making a special macro for it which lowers the arrow, for instance.
Feb 14	comment	How to (automatically) determine a visually appealing line spread? You could try with `\tracingoutput1 \showboxbreadth\maxdimen \showboxdepth4 \lineskip1.42pt` and then grep the log for `\glue(\lineskip) 1.42`, adjusting the spread in a programmed loop outside the TeX process.