The front matter of a document (in particular, a book) contains everything before the main body of text: the title page, tables of contents, dedications, prefaces, etc. For questions about specific parts of the front matter, use the respective tag (e.g. {titles} or {table-of-contents}).
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Substituting lowerbacktitle in one-sided document
I'm using LyX and the thesis template that comes with it. When I changed my document from two-sided to one-sided a page in the output disappeared. I found out that this was the \lowertitleback that ...
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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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How to exclude citations in frontmatter from bibliography ordering using bibtex?
In my PhD thesis I have to include a few pages in the frontmatter that disclose that some chapters have been published as papers, including citations to the papers. These citations then appear as [1], ...
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How to customize page numbering as “Chapter number + page number” in book class?
I am writing my final thesis, and I want to change the default page numbering like (also in TOC):
1. Introduction 1-1
1.1 Background ......... 1-1
1.1 Object ......... ... 1-2
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How to make front-matter page number non-bold in ToC?
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It seems the Roman page number for front-matter look too dark in ToC, so how to make it as normal font but not change the bold Arabic number for chapters?
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How to make page numbering with ligature roman style?
I use roman page number for front matter, I was just wondering, is it possible to make these roman numbers as ligature?
See.
Roman:
and
roman:
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Simple footer with fancyhdr and pagestyle fancy, article with frontmatter etc
I am trying to get a simple on every page but excluding title page. Now I only get footer in front matter and excluding title page. The main matter do not get footer.
Edit: I want a simple footer ...
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ToC links to front matter are broken [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Incorrect bookmarks and page number in table of contents
I have finally figured out how to format the front matter of my thesis according to my university's standards. ...
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Remove blank pages after title and Table of contents
I'm using the book style, and I've got a title and ToC, they generate a lot of blank spaces after them that is completely unnecessary; how do I stop this behaviour?
Here is my example code
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How to make page numbering continuous after a second \mainmatter?
I am writing a document with multiple \mainmatters and \backmatters.
The structure is basically:
...
\mainmatter
\backmatter
...
\mainmatter
\backmatter
...
Is there a simple way of preventing ...
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Subsection numbers with memoir + frontmatter
I've just tried to use \frontmatter with memoir class for the first time and everything works fine except for some weird detail. When I add \frontmatter and \mainmatter commands, the numbers of ...
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Insert text line in array
I am looking for a (clean) way to keep text aligned in a situation like the following:
thesis under the direction of:
[tab] Title [&] Name [&] University
with the supervision of:
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Inserting a quote onto the (otherwise blank) left-hand-side page of a book [duplicate]
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Add a quote to a blank page centered
I am writing a thesis in \documentclass{book}. I wish to insert a quote on the blank page that comes after my preface and before my ...
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How I change the text width in the “Frontmatter” part?
I am using Elsevier document class (elsart) but I changed the page margins and also text width, but the text in "frontmatter" part remained unchanged. How can I change the margin or text width in that ...
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Copyright page on back of title page
I am trying to get the copyright page to print (or display) on the back of the title page. What is happening is that I get a blank page after the title page and then the copyright page opens on the ...
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Front page and author in list of contents [closed]
In my list of contents, the first row is the front page.
And in the second line, there is the name of the author
Is there a way to delete that from my list of contents?
Example:
And i have the ...
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How to let all the pagestyle of pages from \frontmatter to \mainmatter empty
\frontmatter may include
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Preference
and other parts
Now, I want to set up the pagestyle of pages range from the tag \frontmatter to the tag ...
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How to reset footnote numbering at \chapter* and at frontmatter chapters?
A comment to my answer to Biblatex and citation reset between chapters made me realize that, contrary to normal chapters in the book and report class, \chapter* (the starred version) does not reset ...
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How to generate E-mail not Email in elsarticle.cls
I am using elsarticle.cls to typeset the paper. The journal requires "E-mail" not "Email". But elsarticle automatically gives "Email". I wonder how to correct it?
I am using the following commands:
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Acknowledgement/Dedication problem
For my thesis, after my title page (1st page), on the next few pages I want to put a
page 2: dedication
page 3: acknowledgement
I tried using the \begin{dedication}\end{dedication} and ...
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Resources for title page and front matter design
I need to create the area between the outer cover and the table of contents for a novel. This will present (at least partially, but preferably at a minimum):
the title
the author's name
the ...
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Change page number position in the middle of a document
I'm creating a large document. My document contains three parts : frontmatter, main, backmatter.
For frontmatter I have to place page number centering, for main I have to place page number flushright, ...
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How to get correct glossary links with frontmatter pages?
I'm using the glossaries and hyperref packages, and my document has 10 or so pages of frontmatter, in roman numerals.
All the links in the glossary have the correct page numbers, but when you click ...
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What is the right order when using \frontmatter, \tableofcontents, \mainmatter, \part, \chapter, \backmatter, \appendix etc?
I am using the book documentclass and want to know the correct order when arranging
\frontmatter
\maketitle or \begin{titlepage}...\end{titlepage}
a page that contains copyright, ISBN, edition ...
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Uppercase pagenumbering (roman) using \frontmatter
I am using \frontmatter, \mainmatter and \backmatter so my pagenumbering is correct. However, i would like my roman pagenumbering in \frontmatter to be uppercase. Is there any easy way to do so?
ps: ...
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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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Some ToC & page numbering questions
I am just in the last stages of sorting out a book for my publishers. The main problems are with page numbering, and ToC.
The publishers require:
Table of contents (numbered with Roman numerals)
a ...
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Split Journal Paper into Multiple Parts [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I reference a table/figure/section in another document?
I am writing a journal paper that has grown to 30 pages long, so I would like to split it into two 15 ...
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using \frontmatter kills my {geometry} definitions
I use a the jura package to write some home work in Law (to be honest, I'm just helping my girlfriend ...). Anyways, I the header of the document I have:
\documentclass[a4paper]{jura}
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\mainmatter adds page breaks that I don't want
I'm using the documentclass "book". I put a set of \frontmatter and \mainmatter instructions around everything that's before chapter 1. But now, LaTeX skips two pages at the beginning of the main ...
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Order of the pages in the front matter of a book
Following "A few notes on book design" from Peter Wilson (author of the memoir class) the order of the pages of the front matter is:
Half-title page
Blank
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication
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Roman numerals in frontmatter are skipping some numbers
I have the following document:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{titling, graphicx}
\title{Title goes here}
\author{Authors go here}
\date{}
\begin{document}
\include{title}
\pagenumbering{Roman}
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\tableofcontents and \listoffigures help
I'm trying to format the front matter of a thesis and am running into trouble with both the table of contents and the list of figures.
The current table of contents looks like this:
List of ...
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Roman numeral numbering for introductions
Is there a way to automatically use roman numeral numbering for introduction pages and introductory tables, which would then switch to arabic numerals for the rest of the document?
