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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Arial Narrow"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>Turns out I didn’t have MikTex
properly installed. I corrected this mistake yesterday, and I am now cooking
with fire!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Arial Narrow"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>Unfortunately I still can’t get Lyx to
work properly, but I am able to use LED. LED isn’t open source, but it is
better than nothing. I’ll see if I can follow up with my problem on the
Lyx mailing list.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Arial Narrow"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>I’ll try to put together some
documentation of getting set up for LaTex that can be used by new OSGeo
authors. I’m guessing the OSGeo wiki would be a good place for this?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Arial Narrow"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>At any rate, I’ll work on converting
my metadata chapter to LaTex in the next week or two, and will also work on
moving over the dictionary material as well.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Arial Narrow"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>A couple of questions:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Arial Narrow"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>Should I start a LaTex book for all of the
English Free GIS Book, and not just the metadata chapter? Where is the Spanish
team currently at with their version of the book? Have there been any
translation efforts?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Arial Narrow"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>Also, can anyone suggest a format for the
dictionary in LaTex? Should I use an article template, or a book template? Is
there another more appropriate template?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Arial Narrow"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>Thanks for all of the help getting started
with LaTex.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Arial Narrow"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>Landon</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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