Questions tagged [chapters]
{chapters} is about the \chapter command which is one of the sectioning commands forming the logical structure of documents. This tag should only be used *in addition* to the more general {sectioning}.
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Shorten distance between chapters in book? [closed]
Is there a way to shorten the distance between chapters in \documentclass{book} so that it is as between sections, and, consequently with no blank page in front of new chapters?
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Adjustment of title of chapter in extbook
I want my chapter title look like this:
I have this so far:
\documentclass[14pt,twoside]{extbook}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[main=czech,slovak]{babel}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\titleformat{...
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How to make the appendixes?
I'm writing a book where the appendix is located after the bibliography. If I place the appendix after the \backmatter, it eliminates the number or letter of the appendix, affecting the numbering of ...
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How to customize chapter? [closed]
I dont know how to custom the chapter like this. Can you help me please
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Need doublespacing in chapter titles of a thesis (in myreport.cls)
I am writing my doctoral thesis using the myreport.cls. The formatting requires double-spaced chapter titles. How can I achieve that? Here is the chapter definition used:
% this one creates the ...
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Make the Font of Chapter Number the Same as Chapter Title
I want my chapter number to be the same as the chapter number.
\documentclass[12pt]{report}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{geometry}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\setlength{\parskip}{1ex plus 0....
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How do I get enotez to give me the headings I want?
I'm trying to create endnotes separated by chapter, and I'm having trouble. This comment makes me think that what I'm trying to do may not be possible using this package; if that's the case then I'll ...
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Latex book class remove vertical space before References
I am using the latex book classs with several chapter. Each chapter has a Reference list at end of them. Everything works fine. But the only thing I want to fix is the huge space before the References ...
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Inquiry about Writing Style in a Book
I recently came across a book online and was captivated by its writing style. I've been trying to emulate it using LaTeX, and I've attached some sample pages along with the code I've attempted so far.
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Modifying style of chapters
I am trying to write a book in latex so I have the following chapter style in my latex code:
How can this code be modified to get the following chapter style?
\documentclass[twoside,a4paper,...
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How can I duplicate the chapter heading on another page without calling \chapter again?
I basically want to reprint the chapter heading with all the same formatting/spacing/etc and have it print onto the next odd page. I sort of hacked together the spacings and everything with vspace ...
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Chapter name is not corret
I have this in my pei.tex:
\begin{document}
%Capa e pagina de rosto
\include{./tex/capa}
% Agradecimentos
\include{./tex/agradecimentos}
% Pagina do resumo em portugues
\include{./tex/resumo_pt}
% ...
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Curly braces for chapter arguments
Using
\chapter Introduction
I only get the first letter I being printed as the chapter name.
To print the whole title, I have to use curly braces, writing
\chapter{Introduction}
or
\chapter {...
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chapter title style and spacing issues of above of title
I'm writing my thesis using document class report. The chapter titles are coming as "Chapter 1": a gap then on the next line "Introduction". I want to make it "Chapter 1: ...
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Change styles for biblatex bibliography headings in memoir
How could I change the style for chapter bibliographies without changing how they appear in the table of contents or the style those for other unnumbered sections? Specifically, I would like them to ...
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\chapter to visualize only "the number of the chapter" + "the name of the chapter"
i need to visualize when i make a new \chapter only the number of the chapter plus the name of the chapter. for example 1. Introduction, with the input \chapter{Introduction} only
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\bm in chapter title causes "TeX capacity exceeded" [duplicate]
Here's the MWE:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{bm}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\begin{document}
\chapter{$\bm{a^2 + b^2 = c^2}$}
\end{document}
And here's the errors I ...
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Adding Chapter Subtitle
I would like to include a chapter subtitle line (not included in ToC) immediately below the chapter name, and I cannot get any of the few recommendations I've found to jive with my existing code for ...
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Cross-referencing in Chapter Short Title
In my thesis, I have an appendix of supplementary files for a chapter with \label{c:ch3}.
In the appendix file, I have used the chapter name as-
\chapter[Supplementary Material for Chapter \ref{c:ch3}]...
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How to include numbered and unnumbered chapter to list of figures automatically with etoolbox
In https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/52747/232319 they describe how to include numbered chapters (with number and title) in LOF only if the chapters contain at least one figure.
The key idea is to patch ...
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how to add dots in chapter name toc
How can i add dots in chapter \addcontentsline like dots in section and subsection?
This Is my code, I see the problem of other people mostly using Tocloft, but i don't know how to use tocloft in my ...
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Change chapter title size in Dissertate (or prevent long chapter title pagebreak)
When using the Dissertate template/class for a dissertation, longer chapter titles cause formatting issues (chapter titles get moved onto the page after the chapter number, which looks awful.)
How ...
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Part title on the same page as the next chapter
tl;dr: How do I prevent a Part's title from taking the entire page? I want to place it on the same page as the next chapter's title.
I'm writing a dissertation, and it has several parts. I got the ...
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\chapter and \section change the appearence of text
I want to create a table of contents for my book. Therefore I put some chapters and sections into the text with \chapter and \section commands. That causes changes the display of the text. Is there a ...
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Run a command at the start/end of each chapter without hooks
I'm using the glossaries package to create a list of acronyms, and I'd like to reset the first key flag for all entries at the start of each chapter in my document.
I've tried solutions I've found ...
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How to reset chapters in biblie
This is my code:
\documentclass[twoside,twocolumn,letterpaper,10pt]{book}
\usepackage[inner=5cm,
outer=5cm,
marginparsep=8pt,
marginparwidth=40mm,
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customizing chapter and section style with Tikz
How to put the section number and title in the specified box with the possibility that the sections are variable.
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{fourier}% change to lmodern if fourier is no ...
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Different chapter headings using the geometry package
I would like to see the code to get different chapter headings.
In the following code, I have "Chapter 1" and its title typeset on page 1 just the way that I want it, and I have its title ...
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chapterprefix option not working in scrbook class
The chapter prefix option that should display "Chapter 1" on the top of chapter name is not coming. I am a beginner with latex so can not find out what is wrong with my code. Please help.
\...
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Defining chapter in LaTeX under amsart
I am writing a file in LaTeX and I have a problem: I can't define a chapter in my file under amsart. There is a warning saying "undefined control sequence".
How can can I define a new ...
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Indent chapter title with titlesec
I am using the following code to define the Chapters with the titlesec package in the book class and XeLaTeX.
\titleformat{\chapter}[block]
{\futura\huge\bfseries\raggedright}
{\thechapter\text{.}\...
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How to generate this structure of chapter /section /subsection tree like the example?
I like to have a structure like this (From Introduction chapter/section) [ Ignore the red boxes]
With the chapter looks like
However, what I am getting is this
The MWE for main file is
\...
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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.
Edit
From this code:
\documentclass{book}
\...
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Appendix Incorrect Format
My latex file looks as follows: I have a main.tex that includes the packages and all ingredients of a thesis (here for minimum running example only one chapter and importantly the appendix).
% Create ...
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Texstudio bibtex compile chapterwise bib file
I am writing a thesis in Latex that include different chapters with separate tex files. Note the following:
Folder structure
├── Chapters
│ └── Chapter1
│ ├── chapter1.tex
│ └── mybib....
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How to define the chapter, section, paragraph with a custom numeration and normal-sized, bold embedded headings?
I have to write a seminar paper. It should have the following outline view:
A. (Big letters)
I. (Roman)
(Arabic)
a) (small letters with ")")
aa) (double small letters with ")")
(...
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How can I set the chapter-counter to infinity?
My professor introduced us to infinite graph-theory and made a little gimmick: Instead of increasing the chapter number by one, he set it right to infinity. Now I want to get it into my LaTeX-...
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Why produces `\clearpage\chapter ...` the error `Float(s) lost. \clearpage` - How to finish a chapter and flush floats?
I have read this explanation and some other hints about Floats lost. I use tufte-book and have more margin notes than fit on the page. The same text prints fine when processed separately but I combine ...
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Force figure to be on the first page of chapter even if too big [duplicate]
Given the minimal working example below: How would I force the figure to be on the same page as the chapter headline "The End", without making it smaller?
\documentclass[12pt]{report}
\...
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Hansen-Style Chapter Heading
I'd just like to enquire on how this sort of chapter style is done. I am aware it is some permutation of the memoir class with hansen style chapter headings, however the number seems to be in sans-...
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Place \frontmatter chapter titles in the same place as \mainmatter chapter titles
I desire that the word Introduction be precisely as far down from the top of page 1 as the words Title of first chapter are from the top of page 3.
I am using \frontmatter because I desire that the ...
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How to remove top margin from chapter heading in a custom macro?
I have created a custom margin for the automation of chapter creation of certain sections of me digitizing a book. I want to be able to remove the top margin from the chapter heading as i feel i ...
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Problem with Figure counter in the 0th chapter in book class
I have a 0th chapter in my book to recollect the prerequisites. The figure environment is supposed to follow the default numbering scheme: \thechapter.\thefigure. However, this scheme is violated in ...
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Memoir and Problems with Chapter and Appendix Styling
I am writing PhD thesis and I have some guidelines put forth by the university that I must conform to. I have mostly nailed it using the memoir package by following the thesis example memoir provides. ...
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Problem with \chapter* and fncychap in book class
I am writing a PhD thesis in the book class, and using the fncychap package to format chapter titles. The MWE is attached below. The problem I am encountering is that I want the dedication and ...
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Change the chapter heading style
I need to change the below code found on another page of this site, so as to display the chapter title (e.g. \chapter{Intro}) above the horizontal line to the left:
\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{...
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How do I make the chapter title in the heading different from the chapter title in the TOC?
I'm setting a document using the octavo class and including the packages tocloft and fancyhdr. Here are my fancyhdr settings:
\fancyhead[CE]{\itshape\booktitle}
\fancyhead[CO]{\itshape\leftmark}
\...
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Enumerate items with respect to chapters
I'm working on a document with several chapters. In the end of each chapter I have tasks which I want to enumerate as 101, 102, ... ,112 (chapter 1), 201, 202, ... 212 (chapter 2) and so on.
For now, ...
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Problem with the header of the ToC and following page using \fancyhdr
Let me start of by saying I'm pretty new to LaTeX. I'm writing my master's thesis and the following problem has popped up:
I'm writing in XeLaTeX. As I'm setting my chapters to get the general outline ...
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book and algorithm2e chapter name containing square brackets
Here a minimal example:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{algorithm2e}
\begin{document}
\chapter{Test [broken]}
\chapter[]{Test [not broken]}
\end{document}
which produces for me:
I am using
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