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List:       lyx-users
Subject:    Re: pleading paper
From:       Dr Eberhard W Lisse <el () lisse ! NA>
Date:       2018-06-07 8:29:58
Message-ID: a60fd2c2-e321-aecd-6695-116f1a5aace4 () lisse ! NA
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John,

you may have to rotate the thing (something like angle=90?)


greetings, el



On 2018-06-07 09:04 , John White wrote:
> Dr. Lisse,
> 
> Brilliant!  Thank you so much.  This is clearly the best option, I
> still have to learn more before using it.
>
> For example, I get the error:
>
> "LaTeX Error: Cannot determine size of graphic in lines.pdf (no
> BoundingBox)."
>
> But if I "show output anyway" I get lined paper.  Lines are going
> horizontal rather than vertical, but nonetheless there is my text AND
> numbered lines in the same document!
> 
> Thanks again!
> 
> John
> 
> 
> On Tuesday, June 5, 2018 11:44:33 PM PDT Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote:
>> John,
>>
>> why don't you generate the lines separately into lines.pdf and then use
>> the background package in the preamble like so
>>
>> \usepackage{background}
>> \backgroundsetup{
>>    contents={%
>>       \includegraphics[width=\pagewidth]{lines.pdf}
>>    },
>>    angle=0,
>>    scale=1.0,
>>    opacity=1.0
>> }
>>
>> I do something like that with a lab request form, where I position
>> demographic data (with textpos) which remains searchable.
>>
>> greetings, el


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