{book-design} is about the design and layout of books. Typical subjects are cover, title pages, margins, odd and even pages and order of sections in front matter and back matter.
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Templates for NOT math-based books?
I need neat templates for books which aren't about maths or any other science - just your everyday HarryPotter-ish book you read to get your mind off all the bad things happening during the day.
So ...
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Book - information page
I have a question regarding the latex book class.
I want to add a page (in the frontmatter) with information regarding copyright, ISBN, edition information, publisher, number of copies, year of ...
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Split a book into multiple volumes
I have a book with 15 chapters and a table of contents. I have been asked to repackage it as two separate volumes, one including Chapters 0-9 and the second including Chapters 9-14 (yes, Chapter 9 is ...
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chapter style with lateral bar
Is is possible to have a different text/layout for the chapter page, and a vertical bar?
What I want to achieve is something like this:
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Two pictures, side by side on even and odd page
I am formatting a twopage book on latex and I have a diagram divided on two almost page size images. (Two captions).
What can I do for putting the first image on an even page and the second on the ...
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What is this font? [duplicate]
I'm trying to write my texts using a font like the image below, from an old book. Does anybody here know what is that font?
Using Baskerville as @Papiro suggested I got this (the math font is a ...
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Avoiding widows by increasing the page size
Two related questions:
I think atm I feel that the best and easiest way to avoid widows and orphans is to let the affected pages differ a little in size. Almost no one would recognise it and -- even ...
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Stylish Class to write a Book in LaTeX? [closed]
I want to write a book in LaTeX, but not in the conventional way. I want some good fonts and better page layout.
The following link is an example of what I want:
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How to put signature number in footer (derived from page number)?
To make my book easier to bind I'd like to automatically put the signature number with small type in the footer of the first page of each octavo signature (except the first one which is given since it ...
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Layout of Knuth's “The Art of Computer Programming” in LaTeX [duplicate]
Just for fun, I want to write something in the same layout as The Art of Computer Programming by D.E. Knuth. Does anybody know how to get this layout with LaTeX?
[EDIT] I am interested in the full ...
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TOC for book and preview
I am writing a book, which has a shorter version called "preview". How could I arrange (in LaTeX, xelatex) that the preview PDF remains as it is (shorter) but that it presents the TOC of the ...
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Summary for parts of one book
I would like to write little summaries at the begining of each part of one book.
How do you do that ?
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Compile separate document chapters into book w/o duplicate references?
I am trying to collect a set of independent documents, each with its own preamble and
begin{document} and \end{document} lines into a book. I have looked into the subfiles package and tried \include ...
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Why is a blank page inserted in the middle of the first signature when impositioning with Context?
Tonight I'm impositioning a book for doublesided printing on A4 sheets. The book is in A5 format and will be bound with octavo signatures (4 pieces of A4 sheet are folded in half to form 16 pages of ...
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How long does it take to format a book in LaTeX?
I am new to this website and I hope this is not considered off topic but how long does it take to format a book in LaTeX?
I understand this is a subjective question but maybe the "specs" of the book ...
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Can I have different chapter heading styles based on part of book?
For example - if I use \frontmatter, \mainmatter, \appendix, and \backmatter... can I use titlesec to format the "chapters" differently? I use tikz to style my main chapters and appendix headings, but ...
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Separate book into parts and chapters
I am working with the book document class and want to create something like this. Moreover, in the Table of Contents I want the "Part" to be under- and over-lined and not to be numbered. I think of ...
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Best LaTeX Templates for books and lecture notes
I have written and submitted a lectures series in mathematics in arXiv, arXiv:1211.3404. Its format is book, but I have some difficulties with it. For example for page numbering, indexing, etc. I am ...
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Figure on A3 page within A4 document
In my dissertation, I got some diagrams that don't fit a single (horizontal) A4 page. Hence I decided to print them on A3 pages that might be unfolded when reading. I followed the instructions in ...
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What is the best way to use Latex for literary documents?
I was wondering, just out of curiosity: what would be the best way to produce literature-related documents in Latex?
I have only ever written technical and scientific documents myself, so I really ...
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How can I add side-icons in a LaTeX book?
Most of the technical books I've read use what I call "side icons" to mark out certain types of content. Stuff like "watch out for this" and "helpful tip", with corresponding icons.
Here's an example ...
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big document — collaboration
We want to write a bigger document in collaboration. Therefore I've got some questions how to organize this best.
so we would have one master document including (or inputting) all the parts of the ...
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How to make hyperlinked tabs with specific colors?
I modified this project How to print section titles like tab-list? in the following way:
usletter, 8 tabs on the edge of paper, odd pages only, text within the tab is set by the user (\TabText), ...
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Print a document with exam class so that it can be folded into a book [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Printing a book
Is there a method when printing on a5paper with exam class so that it comes out like a book?
Folding down the middle, and have it print the pages in ...
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Create a book cover with spine, rear page and flaps
I have just finished my thesis, and I want to ask if there is a way to create a front-title page with spine (I don't know if this is the right term for the area between front page and rear page)? I ...
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How to type multiple choice questions with more than one correct choice
I want to type multiple choice question (which may have two or more answer) book using exercise package such as
\begin{questions}
\question This is the first question
\choice Wrong answer
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How to print section titles like tab-list?
Can I create a user manual with sections at the right like multi-tab?
Like this:
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I think maybe I can template the page by tikz. (That will be very flexible if possible) so I added the tikz tag.
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How to change the margins of the only first page of each chapter?
I'm using the geometry package in the book class and now I want the margins of the first page of each chapter to be, for example, top=50mm, bottom=50mm, left=50mm, right=50mm and the ...
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Holiday diary with LaTeX
I want to write a diary of my holidays. I thought to use part to subdivide the diary by years, chapter to subdivide by holidays (places) and section to subdivide by days. This works quite well, but I ...
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How to place author’s name below her/his text?
Is there an elegant way to place the name of an author blow her/his poem or text (in an anthology of different authors)? The name should be flushed right, have vertical space (e.g. 1em), should not be ...
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Are there any packages similar to fncychap?
I use fncychap this way:
\usepackage[Conny]{fncychap}
This lets me have pretty decent chapters, ToC and title page design. But the options are scarce and too popular.
Are there any other packages ...
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Adjusting the book document class for large volume writings
Given that my writing is relatively large in volume, I would like to make more efficient use of space. I therefore set \documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{book}, but
I suppose that there is a way to use a ...
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Book layout Contents, Chapter, Section,
my goal is to get new style of Table of Contents, new style of Chapter and new style of section. I there is one more: how to change itemize native symbol for a black square?
Table of Contents: text ...
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How to solve a resolution problem in a DjVu document? [closed]
It happens, that if I select the common
\documentclass[12pt,twoside]{book}
\begin{document}
SOMETHING
\end{document},
the resolution of my transformed DjVu document, is not enough at the time of ...
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How do I create a book with separately produced chapters?
I want to create a book type file, where each chapter is separatly compiled. That is I get the whole thing as well as each individual chapters in pdf or dvi or ps format. How do I do that?
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Finding the corresponding tex file/line from pdf
I am working on a pretty big latex project (a book) and I'd like to be able to quickly find the corresponding .tex file and line number, when having the resulting PDF in front of me.
Being ...
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Latex style that resembles the one used in some computer science books
I would like to find a latex style that is close to the one used in books like the followings:
Melvin Fitting, "First-Order Logic and Automated Theorem Proving" ...
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Templates for Books on Grammar, Phonetics for Language Learning
I want to make a book about the grammar of a indigenous language and use it for language learning, so far I got some templates but it seems they are for plays and math. I would appreciate information ...
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Listing Chapter/Section/Subsection numbers with the preview
After compiling all the content of the book, I use Adobe reader to preview the content. Note that the legend that I use to navigate through the book (the listing on the left (usually) with the option ...
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Foldable DIN A0 page within normal document
This question is somewhat similar to this question: Insert foldable A3 pages in an A4 document with active references
However it's not completely the same.
I want to have a foldable DIN A1/DIN A0 ...
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Selecting fontsize in B5 book
I used
\documentclass[twocolumn]{book}
\usepackage[top=1.5cm, bottom=1.5cm, left=2cm, right=2cm]{geometry}
to make A4 paper size book and then join two A4 pages to one A4 page landscape (that ...
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How to snap the page dimensions to the grid in ConTeXt? [closed]
In ConTeXt, I am using the setting grid=yes to make all of the text in a document use grid typesetting. ConTeXt seems to automatically adjust the height of this grid based on the size of the font ...
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Different chapters, different layout
On request, I have two different layouts for chapters for a book. The first one is exclusive to the Chapter 1 and the other one is for the others. The layout affect how the sections, definitions and ...
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Memoir chapter styles
I'm designing a book collection using the memoir class. I want chapter titles to have a page for themselves (before the chapter proper). I'm using the following code for that:
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Formatting a book with scene markers
I'm laying out my wife's book using LaTeX; I'm using KOMA-Script scrbook as my document class, but I don't think that my question here is specific to KOMA. Between certain scenes, we have scene ...
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Book style used in Concrete Mathematics
Does anyone know what style is used in Dr. Knuth's Concrete Mathematics? I'm hoping to use it for my dissertation. I know that they use the concrete and Euler fonts, but with regards Chapter ...
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LaTeX techniques and templates for writing a book
I am about to write a couple of books using LaTeX. I am fairly used to producing small LaTeX articles using Sweave and R, but I have never written a book using LaTeX and I am not conversant with the ...
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How to include information about title, author, publisher on a title page?
EDIT: Border is not part of the final result - it's just a screenshot.
I want my title page (first page after cover) to look like this (taken from word document):
What is the proper way of laying ...
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Displaying page construction guides
Is there any way to overlay some lines and dimensions on the document so that one can see where the margins end and more easily examine the overall layout and ratios of elements on the page?
See for ...
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Getting started with Chinese in ConTeXt
I am trying to setup a basic document with ConTeXt, but I am having difficulty even getting started.
First, I tried the documentation at ConTeXt wiki: Chinese. I tried the sample code on that page:
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