Alan Munn

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Linguist and some-time package/software writer.

My one-page dictatorial guide to LaTeX packages

Package author of:

msu-thesis class (for Michigan State University theses and dissertations.)
he-she (alternating masculine and feminine pronouns for gender neutral writing.)
pst-vowel (diphthong arrows for vowel.sty vowel charts)
msuletterhead (letterhead package for Michigan State University (internal use))

Software author of: (Mac OS X)

csv2latex (Ruby/Applescript combination for pasting spreadsheet cells into LaTeX source); included as part of TeXShop; usable with any Mac text editor.
make-local-texmf App to create a new user texmf folder.

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Apr 3	comment	multicolumn long table or enumeration Playing around with this, it seems that the table is shorter than it needs to be (by about 2 rows) This can be fixed by adding `\shrinkheight{-.3em}` to the table body command.
Apr 3	comment	multicolumn long table or enumeration Very nice. Thanks. Deciding on who gets the bounty is going to be tough!
Apr 3	comment	multicolumn long table or enumeration Thanks! I've never before found a use for the tabbing environment. As for centering the T's and F's, that can be done by embedding them in a `tabular` environment: `\begin{tabular}{>{\centering}p{.5in}}T\end{tabular}` will do the trick. Since there's a bounty, I'll wait a few days to see if any other solutions show up, but this is a pretty good solution to begin with.
Apr 2	awarded	Nice Question
Apr 2	comment	multicolumn long table or enumeration @lockstep Yes, exactly. But that just gave me an idea for a solution.
Apr 2	comment	multicolumn long table or enumeration If this were a table, then the 19 (the top of the second column) would line up with the 1 (the top of the first column.) If I take out the "Item #" line, that will happen for the first page of the example, but is not guranteed to happen in subsequent pages. Is that clearer?
Apr 2	awarded	Promoter
Apr 2	comment	Beamer - blank black frame Ah, yes, I still had `[plain]` in my test file.
Apr 2	comment	Beamer - blank black frame @Seamus Other than the navigation symbols, changing the background canvas does exactly that. No other elements are visible. So Herbert's solution is an exact duplicate of the solutions posted in the question I reference.
Apr 2	comment	Beamer - blank black frame possible duplicate of Change the background color of a frame in Beamer
Apr 2	answered	Change the shape of a vertex using qtree
Mar 31	comment	Does LaTeX define a semantic equivalent of \textbf ? strong is not semantic in the same way that emph is: there is no typographical convention on using boldface in the way that there is for using italics. So the lack of a `\strong` command isn't surprising.
Mar 31	comment	book tex templates Perhaps some of the answers here will be of help: Showcase of beautiful typography done in LaTeX?. For document classes ideally suited for books, check the `memoir` class and the KOMA `scrbook` class.
Mar 31	answered	Section Symbol and Number
Mar 30	comment	In Lyx turn greyed out text into comments @denilw Unfortunately LyX users are a minority here, and for most of us here, LyX is a mysterious creature which hides most of the things that LaTeX does behind its interface. I don't think that means that people don't take LyX questions seriously but rather simplly that we don't have much knowledge of LyX. Also, there are many LyX things that must be done with straight LaTeX, so non-LyX solutions aren't always a bad thing.
Mar 30	comment	renew section command with tabular sections So what you want is a two column document, but with section headings that span both columns?
Mar 29	comment	Title running off the page! Make sure you load `ulem` with the `[normalem]` option, otherwise your `\emph` commands will show up as underlined instead of italics.
Mar 29	awarded	Nice Answer
Mar 28	revised	Floating wrapped figure in a twocolumn page fixed English; deleted 1 characters in body
Mar 28	revised	Theorems and Definitions as quotes grammar