Sky marshals, accompanying US airplanes, are old hats – our municipal transport services now deploy tram marshals, accompanying the tram cars and protecting the passengers. On my way to the dentist (yeehaa, no cavity found!) I saw a tram marshal – at least I think it was one. A heavyset bearded man, looking very tired, sat behind me. He was wearing a uniform of the transport service with a label saying "Aufsicht" (supervisor, surveillance). Now two questions come to my mind: 1. Was this really a tram marshal? If yes, what exactly is his job? I never experienced any situation in a tram that might have been dangerous. I think our city is pretty safe. 2. Or was he a controller, checking if people have a ticket. If yes, why was he wearing a uniform then? People could recognize him easily and jump off the tram car …

Just found while looking for some hints for compiling an application:
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I needed to change the bullets of an enumeration, so that it looks like /LF10/, /LF20/, /LF30/ etc.
I googled the German tex usenet group and found a quite nice hint. There is a package called enumitem that realizes exactly that. It only has one bug, it sets the value of the left indent to zero. Achim Blumensath offers a corrected version of enumitem on his webpage for download.

How to use enumitem:

\usepackage{enum}

...

\begin{enumerate}[/LF10/]
\item foo
\item bar

\end{enumerate}

Latex recognizes the 1 in the optional parameter for the enumeration as enumeratable item and enumerates this number.

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Imagine you put your citation-commands in a footnote – something like

...foo\footnote{\cite{Smith2000}, p. 42}

Now imagine you have another citation which uses the same citation mark:

... bar\footnote{\cite{Smith2000}, p. 42}

So you have two identical citation marks in footnotes on one page … not very nice huh? So why do you not use the same footnote for both citations? It’s very easy done with a macro:

\newcommand{\lastfootnote}{\footnotemark[\value{footnote}]}

It tells the Latex system to use the last footnote identified by the counter – value{counter} returns the value of the last footnote counter (you guessed so, huh?)

Now you can use it like this:

... foo\footnote{\cite{Smith2000}, p. 42}

.....

... bar\lastfootnote

Both words, foo and bar, will have the same footnote counter referring to one single footnote. Pretty neat!

Did I mention that I start to love Latex?

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