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Tim Frink

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Sep 30, 2009, 5:31:51 AM9/30/09
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Hi,

I want to use a colon after a definition which I define with:

def\theoremseperator{:}
\newtheorem{definition}{Definition}

When I use it with:

\begin{definition}
some text
\end{definition}

I just get:

"Definition 1 some text"

However, the colon after "Definition 1" is missing. The
switch for theoremseparator seems to be ignored.

Any ideas what might be wrong and how I get the colon?

Tim

José Carlos Santos

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Sep 30, 2009, 5:53:39 AM9/30/09
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My crystal ball tells me that you are using the ntheorem package. Is it
right? If sou, all you have to do is to type

\theoremseparator{:}

What's that "def" doing there?

Best regards,

Jose Carlos Santos

Tim Frink

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Sep 30, 2009, 5:59:36 AM9/30/09
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> My crystal ball tells me that you are using the ntheorem package. Is it
> right? If sou, all you have to do is to type

your crystal ball is right. :-)

>
> \theoremseparator{:}

Then I get
---------
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/ntheorem/ntheorem.sty
Style `ntheorem', Version 1.25 <2005/07/07>
)
! Undefined control sequence.
l.34 \theoremseperator
{:}
?
---------

Even though theoremseparator should be defined there.

Is there another way to get the colon after Definition?

Regards,
Tim

Lars Madsen

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Sep 30, 2009, 6:08:37 AM9/30/09
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check your spelling, separator not seperator (common error)


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Claas Hemig

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Sep 30, 2009, 6:09:55 AM9/30/09
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Hi,

> ! Undefined control sequence.
> l.34 \theoremseperator

\theoremsep*a*rator

Best,

Claas

Harald Hanche-Olsen

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Sep 30, 2009, 8:51:20 AM9/30/09
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+ Claas Hemig <claas...@tu-clausthal.de>:

> Hi,
>> ! Undefined control sequence.
>> l.34 \theoremseperator
>
> \theoremsep*a*rator

We need to get someone from the google team involved in TeX development.

"Did you mean: \theoremseparator"

(I can't count the number of times I wrote "theorme", but that is of
course a different kind of era <wink>.)

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