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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\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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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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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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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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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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votes
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Indent a code listing in LaTeX
For a little LaTeX document I am writing I would like to insert source code fields (in SQL) into my paper.
I found out that I can use the listings package for this, which works well so far:
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Non-special first page in \documenclass{article}
I'm new to TeX and LaTeX, so I might not explain it all that well.
I'm trying to put pagenumbers on each footer in the form "Page X of XX" using fancyhdr. So far I have this:
\cfoot{Page \thepage\ ...
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Does LaTeX allow you to rapidly switch your document layout to fit editor choices?
After my last (and first) question, I've been given some information about medical articles.
I looked at my professor doing some case reports. He uses Word to write the entire document; when he ...
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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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9
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How to avoid empty space caused by TikZ
When adding a background image by TikZ on a custom page, it leaves an empty space where the TikZ code is incorporated into the document. For example,
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
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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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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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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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votes
2answers
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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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Using \maketitle twice in the same article
I need to write a single, short PDF file that contains two distinct parts. I don't want to mess with PDF joins and hacks, as I need both parts to share page numbers, citations, etc. However, I want ...
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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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votes
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Roman Page Numbering for TOC in Article
I'm writing something with the article class, and I'd like to have the table of contents pages numbered with roman numerals, and in addition and most importantly: to have the arabic numbers reset ...
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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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No indent in modified \maketitle in article
I am looking to have the title left justified along with the name of the author and teacher and the date. I have managed to get it left justified but the name is being indented, this is not what I ...
7
votes
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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 ...
7
votes
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Fill the blank type of text in non exam document
I want to make a fill the blank type of text in a non-exam document. Here the desired result that I want:
Let A be a subset of R, A called measurable set if m*(...) = ........, for all .... in R
I ...
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votes
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Flush equations left with breqn
I am using the breqn package to automatically break equations, like this:
\begin{dmath}
a = b + c + d + e + f + g + h +i + j + k + l + m + n + p + q
\end{dmath}
I would like to have all my ...
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votes
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Centered page numbers although set “twoside” option
Using article class and the twoside option still gives me the page numbers in the center of the page. Isn't the twoside option supposed to put the page numbers on the left in even pages and on the ...
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votes
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Odd/Even fancy headers with article class
Using fancyhdr and the book class, one can set different headers/footers for odd/even pages as
\fancyhdr[RO]{foo}
\fancyhdr[LE]{bar}
and so on. How can I achieve the same with an article class, ...
6
votes
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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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votes
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Selecting A8 Paper
As I frequently use
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
I though a simple change could select the A8 paper:
\documentclass[a8paper,12pt]{article}
But I get a warning saying the a8paper option ...
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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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votes
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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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votes
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“Abstract” in caps font for article class
I'm submitting a paper that must be written using the article class. But I prefer the way the word "abstract" in the all caps font I've seen in some papers. Is there a way to replicate this? Here's an ...
6
votes
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Beamer article mode + amsart freezes latex
If i try to get an article from my beamer slide using article mode and amsart style, my compiler (pdfLaTeX, LaTeX) gets stuck in an infinite loop:
\documentclass{amsart}
\usepackage{beamerarticle}
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votes
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List of figures as a section with number
How can I get the list of figures as a section in an article document, so it will be listed in the table of contents? At the moment it's listed in the ToC, but without number.
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Beautiful quotes in documentclass article [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
“Inspirational” quote at start of chapter
I'm using \documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}. How to do this beautiful quote by using \renewenvironment{quote} ...
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votes
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Article appendix with sections and toc entries in the form “Appendix A”
I have been trying to get the appendix for my thesis done.
I've read a lot about it and as always you can chose between a fiddly way and a magic package that doas the job to solve a problem (I usually ...
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votes
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Keywords and MSC Classification in LaTeX article class
In the amsart document class, one has the commands \keywords{foo} and \subjclass{foo}. I was wondering, how does one make similar commands for the standard LaTeX article class?
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votes
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\renewcommand{\refname}{} does not remove “References”
I have a file of class "article" with bibliography style "nature"
Since I want to have the references in the table of contents with a section number, i have set a section with the references inside ...
5
votes
1answer
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Beautiful letterhead
How can I create a beautiful letterhead from the article class using say header or footer . I do not want to use letter class due to limitations. The letterhead should look outstanding.
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votes
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a5paper setting not taking effect
I would like to set the page size to the European A5. I wrote the following:
\documentclass[a5paper]{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\begin{document}
...
And process it with:
xelatex main.tex
The ...
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votes
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How to clearly demarcate frame/slide content when using article class for a beamer document?
When I use the article class with beamer, the slides are not clearly demarcated.
Rather, the slides just blend in with the document as dot points, headings, and
so on.
This is fine when I actually ...
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votes
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Can I use beamer without setting \documentclass to beamer?
I want to have a PDF that is the normal type: \documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article} with normal TeX tables, graphs and words, but I want it such that there's beamer slides scattered throughout of the ...
4
votes
1answer
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Error in mathematical symbols in “Article” document class
When I use the mathematical symbols, with an error, the compiler stops. for example for \leq or \mu. What is the reason and solution for this?
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votes
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Fonts in scrartcl.
Hallo all,
I started using the scrartcl class and then all the fonts (section, title ...) were messed up. How can I get them back as they where when I used article. Do I have to set them all with ...
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votes
1answer
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Why does latex think it's tomorrow already?
Strange problem here:
Brandon@forge ~/Dropbox/research.local/oil
$ date
Tue, Nov 27, 2012 6:14:23 PM
Brandon@forge ~/Dropbox/research.local/oil
$ cat <<EOF | pdflatex
\documentclass{article}
...
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votes
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Examplebox from Beamer in Article
I would like use \examplebox{}{} command from Beamer in document class Article.
Is it possible? Or can I define it somehow?
4
votes
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Text does not fit foot line space
For my next essay, I got some requriements from my teacher. The layout concerning headlines and footlines should be like this (as there is no adequate Times New Roman I chose Arial):
...
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votes
1answer
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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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votes
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Article: bad footer on the second page
See the previous question.
This is how my letter looks like
\documentclass[a4paper, 11pt]{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\newcommand{\DocumentTitle}{Motivation Letter}
...
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votes
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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}
...
3
votes
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Page numbers to the right in article class
How do I flush page numbers to the right in the footer of an article class?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\headheight=14pt
...
3
votes
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How can I get a title page with the LaTeX article class? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I get \maketitle to create a separate title page with the article class?
I'm trying to vertically center the title page and abstract in my LaTeX document (much ...
3
votes
1answer
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Manually made folding marks in article don't appear as intended
I am writing a letter in the article documentclass in LyX. I tried Koma-script v2, and found it nice, but not quite fulfilling with customization, at any rate not within LyX.
Most of my letter works ...
