I am writing a thesis in social sciences and they don't have a template for the thesis (they use MS word). So, I am creating my own.
The whole thesis should be 12pt and there shouldn't be any bold characters. (italics are possible) So, I was wondering if there is a way to define everything that way, including chapters, table of contents, references, section names, title page, captions etc.
Thanks for your help.
Edit: I am using \documentclass[12pt, a4paper]{report}
. If there is a better option, I can change it to another class. I didn't know margins are important, and I haven't actually dealt with them yet. But I guess 2cm margins will be fine.
I haven't decided what packages to load, but apacite, setspace, float, graphicx and times packages will most likely be used.
I was thinking, instead of defining everything as normalfont, there could be something like:
Latex searches for bold font. Somehow it is directed to the normal font. It thinks that it is bold, but it looks like normal font. And the same thing for font size.
titlesec
package may be useful, the documentation of that package provides examples for most issues you mention in the question. – Marijn Mar 27 '18 at 10:06\renewcommand\bfseries{m}
will do away with bold globally. (More accurately, it will make the bold series the same as the default medium series. Whether this is correct for what you need depends on the font you're using.) – cfr Mar 27 '18 at 10:15