# [OS X TeX] \linenumbers and only half of the page

Iraj Kalantari I-Kalantari at wiu.edu
Wed Feb 21 15:58:05 EST 2007

This is a nice feature -- thank you for teaching me a new trick.

Is there a way to arrange for the line numbers to appear in, say, 50%
grey?

How about a way of numbering every 10th line?
(So that it is less distracting.)

Iraj.

On Feb 21, 2007, at 12:07 PM, Joshua Smith wrote:

> On Feb 21, 2007, at 9:57 AM, <stephenmoye at cox.net>
> <stephenmoye at cox.net> wrote:
>> A little Googling on comp.text.tex turned this up:
>>
>> \documentclass{article}
>> \usepackage{amsmath}
>> \usepackage{lineno}
>>
>> \begin{document}
>>
>> \linenumbers
>>
>> \section*{Mathematical Model}
>>
>> The application of poroelasticity to the consolidation of brain and
>> neoplastic tissues is well established.  Considering brain and
>> neoplastic tissues as homogeneous, isotropic, poroelastic materials
>> and assuming infinitesimal deformation, the governing differential
>> equations are
>> \begin{linenomath} %%<<----- NOTICE
>> \begin{gather}
>> G \; \nabla^2 \vec{u} + \frac{G}{1 - 2 \nu} \; \nabla (\nabla \cdot
>> \vec{u}) - \alpha \; \nabla p = 0 \label{Naviers_equations} \\[6pt]
>> %
>> \alpha \frac{\partial e}{\partial t} + \frac{1}{M} \frac{\partial p}
>> {\partial t} - \kappa \;  \nabla^2 p = L_{p} \frac{S}{V} (p_{e} - p),
>> \label{pressure_diffusion_equation}%
>> \end{gather}
>> \end{linenomath} %%<<----- NOTICE
>> where the variable $\vec{u}$ is the displacement vector of the
>> tissue, $p$ is the interstitial fluid pressure, and $e = \nabla \cdot >> \vec{u}$ is the dilatation.
>>
>> \end{document}
>
> Thanks, that fixes my problem, but I cannot speak for Thomas (who
> originally started this thread).  I see now that it is explained in
> the documentation.  I just find manuals hard to read when the user
> commands are mixed with code explanation.
>
> Josh
>
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