{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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Combine several chapters (separate files) in to one report

I am writing my final year thesis. I was asked to write my report part by part. First I wrote the Introduction chapter. No I have completed the Literature Survey. Both these were written as two ...
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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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Customising the LaTeX output of gutenmark

I'm attempting to customize the LaTeX output I get from the GutenMark application for use on a BeBook One (6" screen, 170dpi). I've managed to get the margins looking reasonable, but the body text is ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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book tex templates [closed]

what are the best latex templates you have found so far for books?

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