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Janet

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Jan 9, 2000, 3:00:00 AM1/9/00
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Hi,

I am writing a letter that looks like

\documentstyle[11pt]{letter}
\signature{Janet Chen \\ Stanford University Mathematical Organization}
...

The "Stanford University Mathematical Organization" part in the signature
always gets broken into two lines; is there a way to prevent this?

Thanks,
Janet

T. Lotze

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Jan 10, 2000, 3:00:00 AM1/10/00
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Kwisatz Haderach wrote:
>
> Janet <jjc...@leland.stanford.edu> a écrit dans le message :

> > The "Stanford University Mathematical Organization" part in the signature
> > always gets broken into two lines; is there a way to prevent this?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Janet
>
> Hi ;)
> Did you tried a fbox{Stanford University Mathematical Organization} ?
> If that doesn't work, perhaps you can try to replace " " with "~"...

I'd rather use \mbox - unless you want that frame you get with \fbox...

Greetings, Thomas

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Kwisatz Haderach

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Jan 10, 2000, 3:00:00 AM1/10/00
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mmm yes of course, mbox is prettier ;-)
but with a fbox Janet would understand what append exactly.


Axel Naumann

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Jan 10, 2000, 3:00:00 AM1/10/00
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In article <m3901yr...@bistromath.Stanford.EDU>,

Janet <jjc...@leland.stanford.edu> wrote:
> \signature{Janet Chen \\ Stanford University Mathematical
Organization}
> ...
>
> The "Stanford University Mathematical Organization" part in the
signature
> always gets broken into two lines; is there a way to prevent this?

\signature{Janet Chen \\ \mbox{Stanford University Mathematical
Organization}}
should work. But have a look at overfull hboxes... (which is "text
lines too long to fit on a single paper line")
Axel.

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Dewey Yin

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Jan 10, 2000, 3:00:00 AM1/10/00
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In article <m3901yr...@bistromath.Stanford.EDU>,
Janet <jjc...@leland.stanford.edu> wrote:

>I am writing a letter that looks like
>
>\documentstyle[11pt]{letter}

>\signature{Janet Chen \\ Stanford University Mathematical Organization}
>...
>
>The "Stanford University Mathematical Organization" part in the signature
>always gets broken into two lines; is there a way to prevent this?

The \closing command puts the contents declared in \signature in a
\parbox whose width is 0.5\textwidth because that \parbox is indented by
0.5\textwidth. Keeping all of "Stanford University Mathematical
Organization" on the same line will cause it to overflow into the margin.

There are a number of solutions:

1. Use \signature{Janet Chen \\ \rlap{Stanford ...}} if You don't mind
the line extending beyond the margin.

2. Do the following:

\setlength{\longindentation}{0.35} % default is 0.5\textwidth
\setlength{\indentedwidth}{\textwidth}
\addtolength{\indentedwidth}{-\longindentation}

3. Increase \textwidth:

\addtolength{\oddsidemargin}{-50pt} % line was 49pt too long
\addtolength{\textwidth}{100pt}
% must recalculated the following
\setlength{\longindentation}{0.5\textwidth}
\setlength{\indentedwidth}{\textwidth}
\addtolength{\indentedwidth}{-\longindentation}

Dewey Yin
ddw...@sunwise.uwaterloo.ca


Kwisatz Haderach

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Jan 10, 2000, 3:00:00 AM1/10/00
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Janet <jjc...@leland.stanford.edu> a écrit dans le message :
m3901yr...@bistromath.Stanford.EDU...
> Hi,

>
> I am writing a letter that looks like
>
> \documentstyle[11pt]{letter}
> \signature{Janet Chen \\ Stanford University Mathematical Organization}
> ...
>
> The "Stanford University Mathematical Organization" part in the signature
> always gets broken into two lines; is there a way to prevent this?
>
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