The {article} tag marks questions related to the article standard class and classes which are intended to act as a replacement for it.
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book vs. report vs. article document class
What are the main differences between the book, the report, and the article document classes? If possible, include the differences within the KOMA-Script classes.
The visual difference for the ...
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What does the titlepage environment do and what are its benefits?
I'm speaking about the article document class only, because report and book deal with titles in a different way.
Obviously, the titlepage environment triggers a new page after it, and it resets the ...
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What is the advantage of using minimal over article when creating a standalone graphic?
What is the advantage of using minimal document class over article document class when creating a standalone graphic?
Bonus question:
Before I have time to make a test by myself, is there anybody ...
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Changing the section title style for an article document type
I have just started working on my master's thesis with my universities latex template. It uses the 'article' document class for it. I have tweaked it here and there a bit to make it more to my liking. ...
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How can I get \maketitle to create a separate title page with the article class?
I am working on a maths assignment and new to using LaTeX. I have written the assignment up but I would like the title page to be its own page. Currently my title page is a few lines generated by ...
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Preventing page break after title page
I am trying to create a title page for my thesis proposal, which is using the article class. I have the page formatted correctly, but it does not act like the default article title page where the ...
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\subtitle doesn't work in article document class
I'm relatively new to TeX but until now I used mostly the beamer class. There I did this:
\documentclass{beamer}
\title{title}
\subtitle{subtitle}
\author{name}
\date{\today}
\begin{document}
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Adding more items on tex article title section
This is what I have at the head of my tex document (article):
\title{Some Article}
\author{John Doe}
\date{\today}
\documentclass[pdftex,12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{setspace}
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Where to put the institute information in the article document class?
I've seen in other document classes that one can input the authors' institutes via special commands, for example in revtex4 I can put
\title{Aggregation According to Classical Kinetics---From ...
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Creating Multiple Choice Questions Without using 'Exam' Class
I am working on a document with class article and I want to have multiple choice questions in it. Is this hard enough to do that I should change it to exam class? If not, how do I accomplish this?
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How do you determine what class to use?
So I am creating documents that have a mixture of paragraphs of text intermingled with numbered questions. I have been creating these using the 'exam' class.
However, I decided to set the default ...
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If you know errors occurred in article & minimal, which one will you use for the subsequent attempts in troubleshooting?
Assume that
For the first and second investigation you know errors occurred when
using article and minimal.
Which one will you use for the subsequent investigation, article or minimal?
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article signature figure
Which is the correct way to add a signature figure to an article in latex?
I need to sign an article by adding the image of my signature under my typeset name.
This are the packages and the document ...
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article vs. report
\section{Section title here}}
\subsection*{The subsection without numbers, but want it to appear in TOC}
\addcontentsline{toc}{subsection}{The subsection without numbers, but want it to appear in TOC}
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Mimicking amsart's font sizes in the article class
I've been trying to customize the tableofcontents and sections to my own liking in the amsart class, but a lot (if not all) of the packages for either of these two functions are incompatible with ...
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Is it useful to use Latex to write medical articles?
I am a medical student approaching to the research world. Next month I am going to start a collaboration with a researcher that want me to learn how to create an article, to choose a specific journal, ...
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Bind reports/articles into a book, but keep the ability to compile them individually
I see a few questions and answers about writing a book/thesis in LaTeX (here's one). But I would like to be able to compile reports separately as I write them to have a bunch of standalone documents. ...
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Styling an “article” document
I'm writing a document using the class article. There are some things I'd like to change, for example:
Always center \section and \subsection titles without doing it manually each time using ...
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Bibliography article : how to replace the long line by the author name in the references
I'm using \documentclass{article}. I'm also using bibliographystyle{ecta}. My references are in a separate bibtex file.
After generating the PDF file, when I have two different citations from the ...
