Questions tagged [book-design]
{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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Nested List - Question and Answers for a Maths book
I'm trying to set up a maths book in latex. There are excercises in the book and I want to have questions labelled in the form 1 (a) (b) (c) (i) (ii). It's set up in such a way that the answers are ...
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including files into book cover
I'm hoping this reaches someone who has used the bookcover package before. I am writing a book as both a physical copy and a pdf. For the pdf, I created a tex file for the front cover which contains ...
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Help replicating 1960s-1990s old eastern bloc font
I have been trying to replicate the font and formatting from my old maths books from the eastern bloc, and I cannot seem to replicate it. Either the font is correctly slanted, but the shape is wrong, ...
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Lots of Unnecessary White Space
EDIT: I have a smaller MWE.
I have a document that has lots of footnotes. These footnotes——I believe——have caused unnecessary white space and have made the document quite ugly. Is there a way to get ...
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Re-number chapter NUMBERS with P?, S? for problem solution book template with parts
How to go about renumbering the chapter numbers to reflect P1 for problem 1, S1 for solution 1 etc. in a book template with parts.
Instead of having to manually \renewcommand each time, is it possible ...
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Section design on even and odd pages
How can I display \section in a colored background that starts on one side of the page (odd pages = left and even pages = right) as in the image below.
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From this code:
\documentclass{book}
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Regarding Odd (Even) Side Margins in Book Class
I have a general question, if I may:
When using the book class for a self-published book, do I need to either add or take away from the default values for \oddsidemargin and \evensidemargin? I want ...
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How good is a default LaTeX page layout? [closed]
When I started using LaTeX a few decades ago, one of the main arguments for using it was the separation of content and editing. The idea was that the author would concentrate on the content and LaTeX ...
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How do I get my book appendices to be titled according to "Appendix A: Appendix Title" in adapted book class?
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{appendix}
\usepackage{kantlipsum}
\newfontfamily\chapterfont{Verdana}
\makeatletter % https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/18604/chapter-...
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Formatting the title page of a book
I am writing a book, and was wondering how to make the title page similar to the following example, without the reference number 1
Since I have the title page in a separate tex file like the different ...
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Design of math paper - small toc and different header style
In this given link:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/370511972_On_homology_theories_of_cubical_digraphs
you can see the preview of a math paper. I really like the design and I tried to tex it ...
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Book template similar to Bishop's Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning
Bishop's PRML is a well known book and extremely beautiful in my view. I'm wondering if anyone knows of a book template to give a similar look. A sample chapter is here.
I haven't found any templates ...
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Create 3 different page layouts to use it in different pages of a book
I want to write a textbook, and I want to create 3 different page layouts and use them in different areas of the book. For example:
How can I do this? I am a complete beginner in terms of setting up ...
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Eliminating uneven spacing in book with XeLaTeX
I don't know how to fix the unwanted space. This is only present at certain points in the text. MY PREAMBLE
\documentclass[9.526pt]{book}
\usepackage{amsmath,amsfonts,amsthm,amssymb,mathtools}
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Found a weird looking symbol involving greater than, less than and the equal to sign [duplicate]
While going through a book name "Higher Algebra" by "Hall and Knight", I came across a pretty weird-looking symbol that I couldn't recognise. I tried looking it up on Detexify but ...
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tcolorbox does not break and starts on next page
I'm a beginner with latex and would have liked to make a recipe book. Each recipe would be framed in a tcolorbox as shown on the screenshot below:
The problem is that the boxes don't break if there ...
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**titlesec** ToC styles for frontmatter and pagestyle for frontmatter, mainmatter
I'm looking for a way to create both a ToC style and pagestyle for \frontmatter and a different pagestyle for \mainmatter using titlesec.
I've run in to several issues where my code doesn't ...
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How can I adjust memoir to work within org-mode?
In lieu of typing bare-bones LaTeX code, and for other advantages
irrelevant to this question, I am using the memoir class from within
Emacs org-mode, with larger fonts for using the output initially ...
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Margins revert to right on twoside in poemscol
I am typesetting a book of poetry using poemscol. I have run in to an issue where when poemscol is enabled in the preamble, the margin on the verso (left side) page moves over to the right side of ...
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Book whose chapters possibly use different macros
We proposed an edited book, where each chapter is written by a different author.
My doubt is: can each author uses his own set of macros (e.g. to define symbols) or this can create problems when we ...
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How do I place a background image on all odd pages of a given chapter?
I have a book using the "book" document type. In every chapter of my book, I want a different background image. Additionally, I want different background images on odd and even pages. What's ...
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On a Comment of Percusse: "Shrink Paper Size, Print Big!"
In the post Should I use \documentclass[12pt]{article} with \Large or \documentclass{article} with \LARGE?,
Percusse made the following comment:
PDF is vector. Shrink paper size, print big!
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How to Suppress the Date Generated by Maketitle [duplicate]
Consider the code:
\documentclass[titlepage,10pt]{book}
\usepackage[showframe,margin=.3in,paperwidth=4in,paperheight=6in]{geometry}
\textheight=5.25in
\usepackage[frame,noinfo,center]{crop}
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On Suitable Margins, Text Dimensions, and Font Size for Foolscap Octavo
I have been asked to produce a geometrically small book.
Tentatively, I am considering a Foolscap Octavo book size; that is, dimensions 4.25'' x 6.75''.
However, I am not familiar with working on such ...
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Fine design for the parts of a book (decoration, font, size, position) for the parts of a book?
I am writing a math book and I want to structure it into parts, chapters, sections and subsections.
I would like to start each part with a decorated style, for example, with a light gray geometric ...
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Epigraph on Title Page of \part without modifying the epigraph package
I know there are already some topics on this, but they either don't quite apply or are not working as required, so apologies for opening another thread.
I am using KOMA-script for a book, and I want ...
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A6 sized book - print doublesided on A4 with fewer signatures
Ref: Two-sided printing of A6 pages on A4 paper
Enough discussion is done on the question that is shared in the above mentioned link.
My new question: The above mentioned link gives 8 A6 pages on 2 A4 ...
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Adding separating line to table of content
There's so many small chapters in the book I am publishing, that I've altered the appearance of the ToC. I'm happy with the results, only, I want to add a line to visually separate the mainmatter from ...
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Trying to compile a book written 2011 from files sent by publisher
In response to a request to a publisher for a pdf version of a 2011 book I purchased, the publisher sent me collection of three folders: one containing .tex files for each of the chapters, as well as ....
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Passim instead of multiple pagenumbers in glossaries
I'm using glossaries while preparing a volumnous book. The standard setup of glossariesworks well for me, with one exception. It is a glossary of foreign words and there are some glossary entries that ...
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Making repeatindex play nicely with imakeidx and glossaries
This is a follow-up question to my earlier question. My goal is to get repeatindex to work the way it was designed: to repeat the main index item at the top of every new page. The answer given to my ...
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Repeat subentry imakidx index on new pages
I'm using imakeidx to create long indexes that span several pages. In case the (sub)subentries extend to new pages, I would like the main entry (plus subentry) to be repeated at the top of the page. ...
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To print "in-quarto"
I would like to print "in-quarto". I explain briefly, I would like to print a A6-book, therefore I would like to print the A6 pages of my book on A4 pages (2 sides) and then fold twice the ...
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How to make the bookcover a part of my document
I have my document which need a book cover. I independently created the book cover using the bookcover document class. I wish to know if there is a way to make this book cover a part of my document. ...
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Custom headers/footers and filler text position on "blank" left-hand page
What I want:
The title page of my report has custom margins to comply with my document's formatting guidelines. I use the package geometry for that, with the command \newgeometry{} for the title page.
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Write a book in an old format
I plan to write a small math book but I am a beginner in LaTeX. I have written articles, but it is the first time that I will write a book. I would like your help if there is any information that will ...
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Alignment of footnotes with suppressed numbering
Following the answer to questions here and here, I have been using footnotes without a marker and without numbering throughout my publication, like in the MWE below. However, I would now like to align ...
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Add decoration at end of all chapters automatically
The accepted answer of this question got me half of the answer I am looking for. I would like to implement this end of chapter decoration automatically for all of my (many) chapters. The MWE is based ...
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Remove top page number and section name in LegrandOrangeBook
Am using LegrandOrangeBook book template. I would like to know how to remove the page numbers on the top headers and their corresponding section names. I want to have the page number in the centre of ...
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Problem combining hyperref and imakeidx in book parts
I have a book with different parts. I number the chapters and pages per part, using the \numberwithin command. I have defined an index per part using {imakeidx} and {hyperref}. The indices list the ...
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Custom chapter name in The Legrand Orange Book
I am using the Legrand Orange Book available available_here I want to modify the chapter so that they display as follows
I want the chapter to have numbers starting with the word Unit then the number ...
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Modern non-fiction book templates?
I used LaTeX a couple of decades ago for my thesis and haven't used it since. I'm closing in on finishing my first non-fiction book and am disappointed at the formatting options for my .docx files (...
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How to do multicolumns footnotes for pages of a book?
I am trying to typeset books about theology, but the books have many footnotes
for page. So, I want to insert the footnotes in columns, in the base of page (on footer),
like the book in this address (...
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A question about \includeonly
The new book I translate is composed by two volumes A and B. Each volume must have its own index and table of contents and page numbering starting from 1 but of course the cross references between the ...
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unnumbered chapter doesn't show up in the header
I am working on a book wherein there's an unnumbered chapter after the ToC and before the numbered chapters.
Here's the MWE:
\documentclass[draft]{book}
\usepackage[twoside,a4paper]{geometry}%
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Two-sided printing of A6 pages on A4 paper
I have a document, 78 pages long formatted into a6 paper size. I need to print those pages onto a4 sized paper, double sided.
SAMPLE LAYOUT BEGINS:
SAMPLE LAYOUT ENDS
EDIT 2 begins:
In this way, if ...
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Showcase of beautiful chapter designs
I'm currently writing a book, and I was wondering if you guys could display your chapter designs:
Complex - have different formatting
Beautiful and awesome
With the tex source code
Nothing original. ...
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Use the odd side page layout with book class oneside option in Hebrew document
I am writing a book in Hebrew. I want the output to be "one-side" meaning that both odd and even pages appear the same.
So I tried the option oneside in the document class but it makes the ...
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Total number of pages including frontmatter and backmatter
Is there any way to get total number of pages in the document.
I am typesetting a book and first page where I write publication info needs to include total number of the pages in the book. I wonder if ...
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Remove margin paragraphs from the paper
I have a document that includes no margin paragraphs (\marginpar{..}), and therefore there is no need to give any area on the paper for the marginparsep and marginparwidth lengths.
To achieve that, ...
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