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[SL] need help with TeX

[Myk R. <myk...@gm...>]

Hey-

I am having trouble with my Vendor Invoice Template. The payments trail off 
the bottom edge of the page. I need some help properly setting up this 
document for 8.5" x 11" US Letter-sized paper. I don't understand TeX enough 
to do this. I have made a few adjustments, but cannot find the right one to 
get the payment data moved up more.

Help?

YOu may view the document here:

http://pastebin.ca/1056580

Thanks,
-myk

Re: [SL] need help with TeX

[Michael H. <mh...@it...>]

Been a long time since we messed with that, but as I recall we  
actually had to tweak the perl on the back end to get it working  
right.  There was a missing slash or something and our changes to the  
Tex in the editor didn't work until we fixed the code that was using  
it.  That was on a much older version of SL though.  Just throwing it  
out there...


Thanks,

Michael


On Jun 26, 2008, at 11:16 AM, Myk Robinson wrote:

> Hey-
>
> I am having trouble with my Vendor Invoice Template. The payments  
> trail off
> the bottom edge of the page. I need some help properly setting up this
> document for 8.5" x 11" US Letter-sized paper. I don't understand  
> TeX enough
> to do this. I have made a few adjustments, but cannot find the  
> right one to
> get the payment data moved up more.
>
> Help?
>
> YOu may view the document here:
>
> http://pastebin.ca/1056580
>
> Thanks,
> -myk
>
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Re: [SL] need help with TeX

[William M. <wi...@kn...>]

Hi Myk,

It takes me at least 30 minutes each time I dive in to update the TeX
templates. I took a quick look at yours but can't provide much input as
I'm a TeX newbie. The best I can do is let you see mine which I have
customized.

I had similar layout problems along the way. Here are my notes on
debugging the templates:

    * Invoice.tex
      If you edit the columns shown, be sure to edit BOTH headers–there
      is one in the main body as well as in the pagebreak section which is
      used for page 2+.
    * Output files are kept in the users directory (e.g.,
      /usr/local/sql-ledger/users) and are preceded by the unix
      timestamp so you can find your most recent attempt by finding the
      highest numbered file. The following extensions are created:
          o .tex - contains the parsed LaTeX file
          o .err - LaTeX error messages
          o .log - LaTeX log messages
          o .aux - nothing useful
    * "Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph nn"
          o This message results from SQL-Ledger putting in extra
          \newline's in the description. Latex is complaining about
          these.

I have lots more notes on editing the TeX templates which I could share
as well. I don't want to paste them in here and spam the list so contact
me if you'd like a copy.


Good luck,
William

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Re: [SL] need help with TeX

[Br N. T. <brn...@os...>]

I'm not positive this will work, but your bottom margin is set at -0.5in
which is half an inch below the bottom of the page (I think). We have
ours set at 2cm and it works fine. Why don't you just try to set it at
0.5in and see if it works. Good luck.

Br. Nicholas


Nicholas Thirkettle, OSB
Saint Joseph's Monastery
Natchez, Mississippi


On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 13:16 -0500, Myk Robinson wrote:
> Hey-
> 
> I am having trouble with my Vendor Invoice Template. The payments trail off 
> the bottom edge of the page. I need some help properly setting up this 
> document for 8.5" x 11" US Letter-sized paper. I don't understand TeX enough 
> to do this. I have made a few adjustments, but cannot find the right one to 
> get the payment data moved up more.
> 
> Help?
> 
> YOu may view the document here:
> 
> http://pastebin.ca/1056580
> 
> Thanks,
> -myk
> 
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Re: [SL] need help with TeX

[Myk R. <myk...@gm...>]

That seems to have done the trick, thank you!

On Thursday 26 June 2008 05:59:23 pm Br Nicholas Thirkettle wrote:
> I'm not positive this will work, but your bottom margin is set at -0.5in
> which is half an inch below the bottom of the page (I think). We have
> ours set at 2cm and it works fine. Why don't you just try to set it at
> 0.5in and see if it works. Good luck.
>
> Br. Nicholas
>
>
> Nicholas Thirkettle, OSB
> Saint Joseph's Monastery
> Natchez, Mississippi
>
> On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 13:16 -0500, Myk Robinson wrote:
> > Hey-
> >
> > I am having trouble with my Vendor Invoice Template. The payments trail
> > off the bottom edge of the page. I need some help properly setting up
> > this document for 8.5" x 11" US Letter-sized paper. I don't understand
> > TeX enough to do this. I have made a few adjustments, but cannot find the
> > right one to get the payment data moved up more.
> >
> > Help?
> >
> > YOu may view the document here:
> >
> > http://pastebin.ca/1056580
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -myk
> >
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace.
> > It's the best place to buy or sell services for
> > just about anything Open Source.
> > http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php
> > _______________________________________________
> > sql-ledger-users mailing list
> > sql...@li...
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>
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