[dundee] Emacs and org-mode

[Nistur]

Yay. More problems! I still haven't done references but I have
something that I am wanting to put into a textbox. This is an extended
example of one of the possible applications of my research, so I would
like to separate it from the bulk of the text (hence the textbox).
I don't know how to do this.
I used:
\fbox{3 paragraphs of text here}
however this put it all in one line going off the page to the right. Fun.
then I looked up and someone said to use
\fbox{\parbox{somesizein cm}{3 paragraphs of text here}}
this worked better. I have to specify the width of the textbox, I
could do that. I can work it out from my margins. No problem.
The problem is it now flows off the bottom of the page. More fun.

Oh LaTeX... why oh why when I'm singing your praises to people who are
struggling doing their contents, list of tables and page numbering in
Word, why when I have thought you so amazing, do you turn around and
bite me in the ass and not let me make a simple text box?

Anyone? Ideas please?

Want this dissertation to be over.
Meh.
Nistur

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Kris Davidson <davidson.kris at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yeah I run the process about 4 or 5 times. I just said twice as it
> seemed more reasonable to the outsider considering LaTeX.
>
> On 17 May 2010 15:28, Colin Brough <Colin.Brough at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>> Kris Davidson wrote:
>>> You need to, or rather I've needed to compile twice in my setup. There
>>> are a few files that get created in the first compilation that aren't
>>> pulled into the final document until step two (TOC, references) also
>>> to update page numbers etc if these files exist from a previous
>>> compilation. I did mine fairly low level though without a make file
>>> etc.
>>
>> For a "from clean" source the maximum number of compilation steps is 4
>> (latex, then bibtex, then latex again, then final latex again to get
>> the page references right for anything that shifted position following
>> the previous latex run).
>>
>>> Its fairly easy to convert the references and it'll pay off when you
>>> do the paper, Google Scholar has Bibtex files so you could just search
>>> download them copy all the files into one.
>>
>> The other way I've found fairly recently is the isbn2bib script by
>> David Griffith (google it!) - give it an ISBN number and it gives you
>> a full BiBTeX reference for that publication that you can then paste
>> into your .bib file... And once you've cited something in one paper,
>> you never have to retype the reference information again, its all in
>> your .bib file...
>>
>> --
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Colin
>>
>> Rev Colin Brough
>> Minister
>> Fintry Parish Church of Scotland, Dundee
>> Scottish Charity Number: SC020742
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Colin Brough                             Colin.Brough at blueyonder.co.uk
>>
>>
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