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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How to Automatically Make Niceframes Over Multiple Pages
I would like to create a special component of a book in which all the pages are framed in the manner of niceframe. And so, I would like an entire chapter, as usual, with the usual page breaks, and ...
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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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Suppress page number from ToC item (using 'addtocontents')
This would seem to be straightforward, but I can't seem to figure out how to suppress page numbers showing in the ToC for items added using \addcontentsline.
I would like the ToC to show a line of ...
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Customize chapter template - black left page and white right page
I'm in the process of making a book and came over a customized chapter template I would like to use, both don't know how to set it up in overleaf. So I want the left page to be pagecolor black with ...
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How to set width of \suggestion and align its numbering when using xcookybooky for type setting recipes
I like to know how to set width for 'suggestion' in xcookybooky for type setting recipes. The the command i used for setting widths for ingredients and preparation are as follows:
\setRecipeLengths{
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In ctexbook document class, when I write a chapter, the word "chapter" is in English
I am writing a Chinese book using ctexbook, but when I used the chapter command, it does not write the word "chapter" in Chinese. Here's my code:
\usepackage[a4paper, total={6in, 9in}]{...
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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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Packages to use when using \include
To write a large document, if I understand correctly, the structure is as follows:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[french]{babel}
\usepackage[...
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How can I color the right side of a page?
I need some help, I would create a book and I need to color the right side of a page, but I don't know how can I do
I need to make a gray line like this
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fully centered verse environment
This is LuaHBTeX, Version 1.15.0 (TeX Live 2022)
Hello. I'm attempting to typeset some verses in lualatex.
This is what I'd like to obtain:
given the following mwe:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{...
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Trying to Entirely Fill a 5.5 x 8.5 Book Cover with Color
I am trying to entirely fill a 5.5'' x 8.5'' book cover with color.
But, there is a vertical white strip, which for some reason, I have not been able to fill.
Consider the code
\documentclass[12pt]{...
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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!
QUESTION: ...
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Can't compile bibtex bibliography with non-default sort technique
Using the elegantbook template,
a minimum version of my document looks like this:
\RequirePackage{fix-cm}
\documentclass[bibend=bibtex, lang=en, onecolumn, a4, 12pt]{elegantbook}
\usepackage{...
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How can I successfully have pagenotes (endnotes) with a reference to the page where they are set in the page they're printed but not viceversa?
In practice, I want to have text like this where a note is inserted,
This is in the middle of a chapter, and we are at page XYZ. To know more, go look at the note at page UVW.
and text like this in ...
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Does memoir miss clear page before TOC by design? If so, is there a reason? Also, is there an option (other than cleardoublepage) to change behavior?
Take this simple example
\documentclass{book}
\begin{document}
\frontmatter
\begin{itemize}
\item ciao
\end{itemize}
\tableofcontents
\mainmatter
\chapter{a}
\end{document}
(For context, I'm ...
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A5 paper size (twoside) AMS book class
I am using the AMS book class for writing a thesis. While the first draft was required to be submitted on A4 paper size, the final version needs to be provided on (twoside) A5 paper size. Is there a ...
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How do you remove all numbering except page numbering in table of contents
Here's my MWE:
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,titlepage]{report}
\usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry}
\usepackage[pagestyles]{titlesec}
\titleformat{\chapter}{\bfseries\centering\Huge}{}{0pt}{}
\...
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Best practices and general guidelines [closed]
I am translating a handwritten notes PDF to LaTeX. Do y'all have any tips on best practices for the same. It has multiple chapters (basically notes for a course) lots of equations and derivations with ...
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Chapter wise customization in a bilingual book
I am formatting a bilingual book where the languages can differ chapter-wise. Inside the English chapters, I want to change the \figurename of every figure environment globally so that I don't need to ...
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redefining running head locally [duplicate]
In the LaTeX classical book class, running heads display current chapter and current section. I am totally OK with this.
Sometimes, however, I need to add an un-numbered section, usually at the end of ...
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AMSrefs: how to cite a paper in a conference published as a book
Using AMSrefs, I am trying to create an entry for a paper in a conference proceeding that was published as a book. Specifically, the data for the paper is
label = {Sch\"ut1976},
author = ...
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Pspicture to Cover the Entire Page
I am working on a book whose geometrical page dimensions (W x H) are 4" x 6".
For one page, I would like to perfectly display a 4" x 6" pspicture.
Consider the following code:
\...
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(Table of Contents) Multiple different background images on every page of the book's TOC
OBJECTIVE:
to have an ability to place different background images on every page of the book TOC.
WHAT HAS BEEN TRIED ALREADY:
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\AddToShipoutPicture*{%
\AtPageLowerLeft{%
\put(.5\textwidth,.5\...
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Change size of The Legrand Orange Book to 17x24cm
I'm looking at The Legrand Orange Book template which offers a lot of possibilities out of the box for creating a professional looking book for educational purposes. From the main.tex file I gather ...
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Change header and footer on parts title page with titleps
How can I make headers and footers on part title pages blank using the titleps package (without interfering with headers and footers on chapter title pages)?
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{titleps}
\...
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How can I put an Arabic translation for each section in the Table of Contents
I am typesetting the Quran in LaTeX with English on the left side and Arabic on the right side. I use XeLaTeX and arabxetex to do this. I use the tocloft package to customize the Table of Contents and ...
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How can I add more text after the chapter name in a book
I am trying to typeset the Quran in LaTeX using XeLaTeX and arabxetex. For chapter pages, I want the English text on the left, and the Arabic text on the right. The result should be something like ...
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Emulate look of book using scrbook?
I read somewhere about an option or a package to scrbook that allowed you to emulate/replicate the look of book, but now I can't seem to find it. Could you point me in the right direction? (Or did I ...
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How to Efficiently Suppress TOC Section Entries from Appearing
I am currently working on a geometrically small book in which I don't want the TOC to be too long.
I don't know yet if I will omit section entries from the TOC, but I am considering it.
Without having ...
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Replace old paper layout package with geometry settings
I have an old package that sets up a Swedish paper format (S5) with a page layout with margins and such. From what I understand it only sets the mediabox correctly only with pdflatex.
To me this looks ...
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Including mathtools changes page layout with XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX
I have a package s5paper (below) not written by me that sets up a Swedish paper format S5 with a page layout with margins and such. But when I build with XeLaTeX or LuaLaTex the page layout changes ...
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Book recommendations for pre-press and printing a LaTeX document
I'm on the way to self-publishing a book I wrote in LaTeX. Now, I don't have any broader background in LaTeX other than scientific writing. However, I got this far that I now need to dive into the ...
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Elegant method to alternate the whole book's font color depending on the input language
The document class: book
Outcome desired: switch the color of the font depending on the language throughout the whole document (red for eng and black for rus in my case).
Given the length of the ...
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Question about how to implement frontmatter. How to do half-title, title, and copyright page?
Gents, I'm using latex to write a book, and I'm stuck at implementing frontmatter. My problem is that both the Half-Title and the title must be in a odd numbered page, but when I use \begin{titlepage} ...
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How do I make it so that every Chapter starts at an odd-numbered page, preceded by a blank page?
I recently began to work in Latex to make a book. This book is composed by two books of the same author, so its made of two parts. It has been a big challenge, and many issues have arisen.
How do I ...
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So what's the right way to set the preferred line spacing? Changing default line spacing in Book returns underfull \vbox warnings
Simple task: book-class document, 12pt font size, 6x9 page size. With the default book settings (I don't really know what's the default line spacing in book-class document) the document is typeset ...
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How to actually refer to Roman numeral page in code to AddToHook background image to page ii NOT page 2
I need to add a background image to a specific page. Here's the MWE:
% !TEX TS-program = LuaLaTeX
\documentclass[11pt,twoside,openany]{book}
\pagestyle{plain}
\usepackage[english, russian]{babel}
\...
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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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Change only the color of the chapters link in the toc using hyperref
My actual situation
I set (with the following commands) that in the table of contents each chapter element is represented with the color steelblue, while sections and subsections are represented in ...
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Problems and solutions book
I am writing book with problems and solutions. And I am trying to find best way to get my pdf output like this
Chapter One: Set of problems
Problem : blah bla ....
Problem : blah blah ....
Problem : ...
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Omit the the .1 from figure numbering when there's only one figure in a chapter
In the book class, figures are by default numbered as \thechapter.\arabic{figure}. However, the {figure} numbering is redundant when there is only a single figure in a chapter.
In such a case, how do ...
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Question about adapting the Elegant Book template for page layout with crop marks
I am tryin to adapt the Elegant Book template for my book. I have made some changes, but I am having problems adapting the template for the following:
The page layout as required by the publisher, ...
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Subfigures in Springer's book monograph class give error (but do work)
I'm using Springer's latex files to create a monograph book. The template can be found here:
https://www.springer.com/gp/authors-editors/book-authors-editors/your-publication-journey/manuscript-...
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\ref{} does not show the complete information about the Example numbers
The style file "myoptions1.sty" is given as follows:
\setlength{\textwidth}{5.6in}
\setlength{\textheight}{7.1in}
\setlength{\headsep}{0.25in}
\setlength{\abovedisplayskip}{0.2ex plus 0....
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How to make mini table of contents unbolded
The standard appearance of \usepackage{minitoc} is with bold letters for each of the sections/subsections of a chapter. How would I go about making a mini table of contents with unbolded letters?
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Unable to combine multiple documents into a single LaTex document
Even the most trivial example fails.
Here's the main file, test.tex:
\documentclass[10pt]{combine}
\usepackage{combinet}
\begin{document}
\pagestyle{combine}
\clearpage
\begin{papers}
\import{a1}
\...
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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 NOT reset section numbering after a new chapter?
I'm translating a book where the author originally wrote the section numbering straight through the chapters, without resetting the numbering, and I wanted to keep this original structure. In the ...
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Fancyhdr suddenly not working in a big project
I'm writing an open-source maths book, and as the project is pretty far in the working, I don't think I can really show a MWE. My issue is that fancyhdr doesn't work, i.e. I see no headers, footers, ...
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modify book.cls class to add one more section level (subsubsubsection)
I would like to modify the book.cls class by adding one more section level (subsubsubsection). I know this can be done with the titlesec package, but I'm looking for a way to do this within a copy of ...
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