Questions tagged [books]
{books} is for questions which deal with books about TeX, LaTeX and other topics of this site. For questions regarding design and layout of books use {book-design} instead.
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Book Layout with Fancy Footing Including Display of Text in Front of Offset Graphical Object
I'm currently trying to massage the layout of my Master Thesis and I'm struggling with the arrangement of some specific graphical elements.
The desired layout includes a footer with a graphical box (...
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Aesthetic math books that are written in LaTeX that are open source [closed]
I found this book called linear algebra done right and I was shocked at how the book looks. I tried to find the LaTeX code for it, but it isn't open source.
Could anyone point me to other books that ...
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Configuring quote environment for bilingual writing
I am trying to configure a bilingual (Bangla+English) quote environment in book class. For the following MWE, I am using these fonts:
Kalpurush (download source)
My Type Of Font (download source)
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Old books appearance and font
As opposed to a clean and crisp font and look that results from a normal TeX .pdf export, I wish to get the following overall look and feel in my documents, mimicking Cambridge John Wilson and Son ...
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Use only arabic numbers in book class
I am writing a book with extbook class.
In the TOC frontmatter uses roman numerals, mainmatter uses arabic numbers.
Publisher asked if I could use only arabic numbers everywhere including in ...
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When is textwidth 4.5in in latex?
In latex documentation, I found this:
Then I searched that what does bk mean, and I found this:
After seeing this I thought that bk means book. And textwidth equals to 4.5in in book class (font size ...
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Restore even-odd-page-style
I have a question and I hope you have any ideas to help me. I realized a book where the book text is written on the left side (odd pages) and the comments (related to the text) are put on the right ...
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how to add the page border for first two pages in latex?
I'm beginner in latex. I'm trying crate a my internship report so i want to crate a page boarder for first two pages. i created the first page but at the second page is not getting boarders, it ...
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How to automatically output page order to print 8 pages of a booklet on a single sheet of Letter paper?
Im new to tex so I'm sorry if this is something is actually easy to do but I cannot find a solution.
I want to print a signature/booklet of my book by printing two separate parts of the sig on one ...
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Redefining \@schapter cause a "perhaps a missing \item." error
Here I want to automatically add string "toc" after the numbered chapter, and "notoc" after the unnumbered chapter, like this:
so I wrote this:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{...
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How to insert a blank page depending on current page number?
I postprocess my PDF produced from my LaTeX-document through pdfbook and want to have the last page appear on the back cover. Thus, I need to have as many pages inserted before the last page so it ...
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chapter image resizing
I am trying to make a book in LaTeX. To the table of contents I want to add a image to the title. The problem is that the image is so long, that it reaches until almost half of the page. Is there a ...
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Changing subfigure numbering style in \ref
I have been formatting thesis which is based on report class and the latex code has numerous subfigures; whenever I use \ref to reference a subfigure, it shows up like 1.2a style where 1=chapter no., ...
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Grey border around the whole page
I am typesetting novels in Latex and I would like to include a 'if you like this, why not try' section at the back.
Such sections are normally formatted like this:
With a nice grey border around the ...
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Settings for book
I'm making some books of the class notes of my college career, and I have used several packages, margin changes and newcommands. I want to use those settings in all my class notes, but I don't want to ...
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Book: Set Page Size
Im fairly new in this forum, so please tell me if you need some more information or anything is unclear.
I'm planning on writing a book with LaTex and have found the Wiley Template here (http://www....
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Can use Thai font in Chapter or Section title but not in the Section's body
All guru,
I'm using book template and can use Thai font in Chapter or Section title but when I typed Thai font in Section's body, it didn't show up. Please advice.
Thanks in advance.
\documentclass[...
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Writing my first book [closed]
I am writing my first book ever, an undergraduate mathematics textbook, and even though I'm halfway done with the content, I'm still using a really simple template I found on the internet that uses ...
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Duplicate entries in contents
I found a lot of questions with the same problem.But mine is a little different.
\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\pagebreak
\setcounter{chapter}{2}
\...
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Latex book odd page is coming with big right margin [duplicate]
I am writing my thesis using the book document class. The sample code is located on GitLab project. The problem is each chapter starts on an odd page and the odd page has big right margin. I think the ...
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What is the name of the variable containing the current chapter title?
Consider a chapter in a french book defined by:
\chapter{Blablabla}
It will generate the output:
Chapitre I : Blablabla
Then, we have the following variables:
\chaptername corresponds to ...
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Image larger then text with twoside book class
The trick indicated here for including an image bigger than \textwidth (with \makebox) works with document class article or with oneside book but not with twoside book, even if I set nomarginpar and \...
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Left-sided table without disrupting flow of text
In my thesis (book class) I have a long table that spans two pages. I would like the table to span both an even and odd (left and right) page for clarity.
In the answer given here (https://tex....
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MIKTEX: how to typeset the whole book while working on a chapter?
When I write a book - I have a master tex file, say book.tex which contains the title, etc., the macros, inputs individual chapter files. When I work on a chapter, say chapter1.tex and see what I did, ...
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Books for Latex in greek and documentation usage
Well I have been using Latex for a couple of weeks only, so that I can write in math exchange site. I have some problems and any piece of advice is very welcome.
I am Greek and there aren't many ...
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I'm using LaTeX2e book class (not memoir class). My publisher wants the final page of the index to have two columns of equal height. How do I do this?
There's nothing fancy in my preamble (just a few specially designed symbols, using \newcommand). I'm using the default Index provided in book class, so the Index has two columns on each page, except ...
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LaTeX book chapter headings with first/last item remark
Prerequisites
xelatex, in the shell only.
book document style
Goal
The goal is that in the heading of each page where book naturally places the chapter name above a horizontal rule, either below ...
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The definitive guide to ConTeXt MkIV and LMTX documentation
On the mailing list (sign up, do it!) and on TeX - LaTeX
Stack Exchange (abbr.: TeX.SX) I often read the complaint
that the ConTeXt documentation is bad/old/incomplete. I
wholeheartedly disagree. ...
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How to remove the "Bibliography" title in book class
Here:
How to remove the "References" title
Gonzalo Medina suggests to use:
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\patchcmd{\thebibliography}{\section*{\refname}}{}{}{}
to remove the word "References&...
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What is TeX's gullet?
Chapter 7 of The TeXbook famously talks of TeX as having 'eyes', 'mouth' and 'stomach' and goes on to talk of TeX's 'digestive processes' and keeps reusing these terms.
Chapter 8 introduces talk of ...
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Where to find the "spiffy new printings" of Knuth's Computers & Typesetting books?
On Donald E. Knuth's website, Knuth states that "new and updated printings of Volumes A, B, and C became available in April, 2012", but I cannot seem to find these anywhere. Knuth describes these "...
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How can I put multiple books within one document?
I need to create a compilation of multiple books in one document for a project. Basically the idea is that several people contribute to the project, each with one book. Then the final version will be ...
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How can I make the following test template? [closed]
How can I make this template in the most correct way?
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Outline shown by PDF viewer is incorrect
I'm trying to structure my book as shown by the TOC below. However, as you can also see in the screenshot below, the outline from the PDF Viewer is incorrect.
The underlying LaTeX code I used is:
\...
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Padding Zero to Chapter Heading in Table of Contents in amsbook class
It is possible to pad zero to chapter heading in table of contents. It is getting reflected in Chapter pages but not in table of contents Here is the code.
\documentclass{amsbook}
\usepackage[...
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Problem with Tcolorbox and Ref
About this code, I'd like something like that
\documentclass{book}
%\usepackage[italian]{babel}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[a4paper,top=3cm,bottom=3cm,left=1.5cm,right=1.5cm]{geometry}
\...
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Preface in Overleaf [duplicate]
I must create a PREFACE on Overleaf. Does a tex-command exist?
(I use \documentclass[]{book})
Thank you very much.
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The variable \partname is not included in the CONTENTS output display in amsbook class
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\documentclass[english,11pt]{book}
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How to display current section title in the header when a new chapter begins just on an odd page
I am using package fancyhdr to help me construct the headers of my book. The Editor want to me to add the chapter title to the header if the new chapter begins on a page whose number is even, and to ...
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List of Definitions, List of Theorems, List of Examples, and List of Activities with Kaobook
This is somewhat a follow-up to this question about custom Kaobook environments. In that question, I was able to successfully define some new environments for the kaobook class and have them all share ...
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Electronic version of Knuth's "TeXbook"?
I have a printed copy of the TeXbook (from D.E. Knuth) at home. Now that I travel a lot, I don't want to take my library with me every time. Question:
Is there a legal way to obtain (=purchase) a PDF ...
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Different numbering for toc and chapter titles using titlesec package
I want the chapter titles in the ToC to be listed using arabic numbers, but want no numbering in the chapter title pages. Like here:
and in the title page, it should be like:
but without the number. ...
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Why is the chapter missing when importing with the \import command?
I am writing a report that contains a total of 6 chapters. I use the \import command to import them, but I have the following problem: if I try to import all the chapters, they appear up to the fourth ...
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How to make environments (tabular, multicols, etc.) hug the inner margin and not the left margin?
I am currently reading LaTeX: A Document Preparation System, 2nd Edition by Leslie Lamport, and for learning purposes am trying to recreate certain structures present in the book.
For instance, in the ...
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Custom example environment with colorbox and vertical line for `kaobook` document class
I am making a custom example environment for the kaobook class and would like to modify the second example environment from this question:
\usepackage{chngcntr}
\usepackage[tikz]{mdframed}
\...
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Figures in Latex/Lyx
Does anyone know which program was used for figures in Thomas' calculus book or in Stewart's calculus book? Particularly 3D figures for example in double integrals chapter (for example figure: the ...
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Inserting abstract into book document
I am trying to insert a abstract into my document as shown below, this gives me an error 'Environment abstract undefined'. I have used this format a few times without this problem occurring, I believe ...
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Math book: how to write Exercise and Answers
EDIT
within \documentclass[12pt]{book}I want to create chapter-wise exercises and put all the solutions (with or without hints) at the end of the book.
I want to do this in simple and non-tedious way ...
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Index of contents compressed
The Latex toc is structured by default on several lines: each line of text represents the single chapter, or section, or subsection, while the paragraph indents distinguish the various levels of the ...
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Compiling one tex file with two styles
I am working on a book project with Springer. I finished a draft with their style file and it complies well.
Now, I hope to put this on ArXiv after stripping out all the proprietary material including ...