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  1. Janssen

    Do you really think someone asking for a document in Arial with 1 inch (2.54 cm) margins would be able to spot the differences between Arial and Helvetica?

    • Thanks for your comment. Your are right, he certainly wouldn’t. My intention was to tell people there is a difference. I probably felt it’s not clean because the source I got the code from doesn’t mention it’s not Arial, but Helvetica. I should have provided that link before though.

      Cheers, Tom.

  2. Roel

    Using XeLaTeX is a sort-of all powerful method to use any font you’d like and it works almost flawlessly. Why would you want to go through a lot of hassle – if it is at all possible – to convert a commercial font to be used with LaTeX?

    Btw, blindtext is a nice change for using lipsum. Thanks for the suggestion 🙂

    • Hi Roel, you are right, XeLaTeX is indeed very powerful and there is no reason for not using it in most cases. XeLaTex has some drawbacks (see the discussion on tex.SE. In the end, it’s up to the writer whether he can live with the drawbacks or prefers to stick to the standard fonts provided by TeX.

      Yes, blindtext is great, I’ve been using it extensively, since I discovered it.

      Best, Tom

  3. Have you tried the winfonts package? http://ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/winfonts
    It’s not available in TeXLive nor MikTeX, so you’ll have to install it manually.

    You’ll also have to tell LaTeX where to find arial.ttf etc, either by setting OSFONTDIR, or by copying the TTF files to somewhere like LOCALTEXMF/fonts/truetype/microsoft/ .

    Then to use Arial as the default font:

    \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
    \renewcommand{\sfdefault}{arial}
    \renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sffamily}
  4. Humberto

    Hi Tom,

    In my output file I got an empty page, after the Appendix B. How I can delete this empty page?

    Regards,

    Humberto

  5. ricky

    when i run on my latex with eclips (texlip) i got thet one “>><<" i dont know what it mean. but thx for "\blindtext". its new for me. n_nV

    • Hi Ricky, please provide a minimal example that illustrates the problem. The code should be independent of the editor, texlipse is just an eclipse plugin. Thanks, Tom.

  6. Humberto

    \documentclass[12pt]{report}
    \usepackage{latexsym,subrthesis1}
    \usepackage{graphicx,subfigure}
    \graphicspath{converted_graphics}
    \begin{document}
    \pagestyle{headings}
    \pagenumbering{arabic}
    \chapter{Introduction}
    \thispagestyle{empty}
    \chapter{Numerical Derivation}
    \thispagestyle{empty}
    \appendix
    \chapter{List of Symbols}
    \thispagestyle{empty}
    \end{document}

    Hi Tom the above minimal example is a simplified structure of my document. In the real document, a blank page is created at the beginning of the appendix, without a page number, and the next page contains the beggining of the appendix with the next page number. I just want to remove the blank page. .

    I will appreciate any suggestion you can provide me.
    Thanks,
    Humberto

    • Hey Humberto,

      From your minimal example I can’t see the behavior you’re describing. It may be due to the fact that I didn’t have the subrthesis1 package and can’t tell what it does. Have you tried not loading that particular package? Do you use the documentclass options twoside and openright?

      Please provide a minimal example that illustrates the issue.

      Thanks, Tom.

      • Humberto

        Hi Tom,
        Below is the illustrative minimal example. I include part of the thesis style for our master program. I think the problem was caused when the student changed the command \baselinestrecht.

        Thanks for any advise.

        Humberto

        ——————————————-

        […]Code removed by Tom[…]

      • Hi Humberto,

        Sorry to remove your code and spoil your document, I removed the parts which were not necessary to illustrate the cause. As you can see from the code below (what is left from your document), the problem is caused by the stretch, as you already guessed. Actually, the appendix reaches into the margin, because array doesn’t add a page-break automatically. What I would suggest, if you can live with it, is to change the arraystretch back to 1. The two commands arraystretch and baselinestretch add up to stretch what is already stretched. Here is the code that illustrates the problem. Try commenting out arraystretch or set it to 1.2.

        Thanks for the example, it helped a lot. Let me know if you have any other questions. Best, Tom.

        \documentclass[12pt]{report}
        \usepackage{latexsym, blindtext}
        \usepackage{show frame}
        \topmargin -18pt \headsep = 15pt
        \textheight 8.9in \textwidth 6in
        \renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{1.6}
        \begin{document}
        \everymath{\displaystyle}
        \renewcommand\arraystretch{1.5}
        \thispagestyle{empty}
        \tableofcontents
        \blinddocument
        \appendix
        \pagestyle{headings}
        \chapter{List of Symbols}
        \thispagestyle{empty}
        The following is the list of all symbols used in this thesis.
        \begin{displaymath}
        \begin{array}{rl}
        T:&amp; \textrm{Temperature measured in the range of} 1-600^{\circ} C \\
        &amp;\textrm {it rises at a constant pre-set heat rate } \beta \\
        \beta:&amp; \textrm{Controlled heating rate with values } 1, 2.5, 5, 10, 15 \textrm{ and } 30^\circ C/min\\
        \beta:&amp; \frac{dT}{dt}\\
        t:&amp; \textrm{Time of the experiment measured in half of second}\\
        M_0:&amp; \textrm{Initial mass, it measures } 15\pm 1 mg\\
        M_t:&amp; \textrm{Mass at time } $t$\\
        M_f:&amp; \textrm{Final mass} \\
        T_i:&amp; \textrm{Initial temperature}\\
        T_f:&amp; \textrm{Final temperature}\\
        T_i-T_f:&amp;	\textrm{Reaction temperature interval} \\
        T_m:&amp; \textrm{is the temperature corresponding to the maximum of $\frac{d\alpha}{dT}$}\\
        \end{array}
        \end{displaymath}
        \end{document}
  7. Humberto

    Hi Tom,

    Thanks so much for your advice. I changed back arraystretch to 1 and baselinestretch to 1.5. It works perfectly.

    Thanks so much

    Humberto

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