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How can I design a book cover?
Can anyone share his or her experience on designing a book cover? I just finished writing my "Awk One-Liners Explained" e-book and now I am designing the cover. I tried \maketitle and the result was ...
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Filling white space in title page with random numbers or a text
Is it possible to fill all white space in this template with numbers or a text?
%----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
% PACKAGES AND OTHER ...
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Book cover fonts
I am typesetting my first book. I am using Computer Modern for the font. I am trying to decide which font to use for the covers/dust jacket.
I took a look at a number of similarly formatted books, ...
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Consistent cover design regardless of inner pages
This is a series of books, the margins, page sizes are all identical. Depends on the content, the design of inner pages are slightly different, i.e. different type sizes, leading, etc.
The question ...
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Words scattered randomly in on coverpage
I am very happy to know that we have a community who answers/gives hints to questions.
Here I want to post a question for you. I'm designing a brochure for our CS department. I want to have around ...
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Image Cover with LaTeX (on WinEdt)
Any thoughts on how to put a full image (covering whole page) as a cover for a book I am writing on WinEdt (LaTeX)?
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How do I include a separate custom cover page onto my LaTeX document?
I've created a nice looking cover page in LaTeX as a pdf on its own. How do I add this onto an already existing LaTeX document instead of the default title page?
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Generate consecutive page numbers + ToC from 28 .tex files?
I've completed half a semester of Discrete Mathematics.
I have written up all 28 lectures into individual .tex files, labelled Lecture1.tex Lecture 2.tex ... Lecture28.tex.
The beginning of each one ...
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Image as cover page
I want to add a figure to fill the whole first page (instead of making it with the latex commands). And then to add a blank page to begin the next chapter on an odd page number. When I write :
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Title page oddly centered
I have to insert the cover page of my thesis as a title page, so it will also move from the center of the page to openright, I guess.
The titlepage code is this:
\begin{titlepage}
\begin{center}
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How can I make a manual a cover for a report?
I need a simple cover but I don't know how set personalized spaces and positions to achieve what I really want. I need something like this
Education Institution
Location
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ToC on cover and continues on the second page
The design I am working on has the ToC as the cover, together with the title & author. There is a production restriction which the second page (inner cover) can't be printed. Please find the ...
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how to create this cover page?
How could I create a cover page in a report as follows?
Especially I would like to know how to create this grey and red area.
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Lyx: can't import LaTex file
I'm trying to import this latex document into Lyx (version 2.0.2 on Ubuntu 12.04), but it fails and won't give any explanation about the error:
Lyx: cannot convert file
An error occurred while ...
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footnote rule on cover page
I have a document with a cover page and foonote. I would like to add a rule above the foonote. What is the way to do this?
\documentclass[english,titlepage]{article}
\begin{document}
\title{ddd}
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How to reproduce this thesis cover page in LaTeX?
I am typing my thesis' cover page, our university has a typesetting requirement in this link
http://www.helsinki.fi/socialsciences/studying/current/thesis_cover.pdf
I need to reproduce this cover ...
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How to avoid mangled covers in the image optimization process of online publishers?
I recently uploaded a book to Amazon with a cover carefully created with Latex.
I tried to make the cover as simple as possible so that whatever process Amazon was using would not interfere. I was ...
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Book cover with pstricks [closed]
Why I get error with the color of the maroon box? (line 26)
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
% load the necessary packages
\usepackage[paperheight=9in,paperwidth=13.24in,margin=0in]{geometry}
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