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Which web forums specialize in LaTeX general discussion?
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Which web forums specialize in LaTeX general discussion?
The major bona fide web forum is LaTeX Community which is run by one of our moderators here, Stefan Kottwitz.
There is also the texhax mailing list.
And the newsgroup comp.text.tex.
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Examples of simple beautiful PhD theses
Aaron Turon created a beautiful thesis. His colophon:
This document was typeset using LATEX, with a mixture of
classicthesis developed by
André Miede and tufte-latex, which is based on Edward Tufte’s ...
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Isn't LaTeX a complete software for producing books?
I guess you a are wondering why so many books are produced with InDesign and much less with LaTeX, because LaTeX obviously is suited to typeset the books you are buying.
LaTeX had in the past and ...
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The correct way to perform a section break in LaTeX
Edit: I've put the package on Github and released it on CTAN.
I also added new package option asterism and a new command \asterism, which will print the asterism symbol.
You can try the following ...
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How can I design a book cover?
There is a relatively new package on CTAN, called bookcover. It seems to be quite straightforward to use and includes two examples.
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Strategy for writing a book using LaTeX
First of all, remind yourself every morning the KISS principle (Keep it simple, stupid). With this principle in mind:
To write plain text without format you do not need a big word processor. Any good ...
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Oxford book template (Choquet-Bruhat, Maggiore, Simon,...)
Edit (2): With egreg's recent suggestion, the package is finally up on CTAN!
I'd like to toss my hat in the ring. While it may not be the exact same as the OUP, I made NotesTeX to mimic the OUP's ...
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Isn't LaTeX a complete software for producing books?
The output from TeX may need postprocessing before being suitable to be sent to a printer to be made into books. So the PDF's are read into the appropriate tool, post processed and then when done, ...
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Comprehensive overview of the existing latex classes. Or how to choose the right class?
The texlive package database has a one line description of each (texlive) package, derived I think from the ctan catalogue.
$ pwd
/usr/local/texlive/2014/tlpkg
for i in `grep -l '\.cls' tlpobj/* `...
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What to decide before writing a math book?
Here's my advice ...
The first decision is:
Who shall the publisher be?
Commercial math publishers have a set of standardised book formats (paper size, basic layout, some additional conventions). ...
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What to decide before writing a math book?
I'll try to extrapolate some issues that I(we) have witnessed here over the years as tendencies.
Should I use only one .tex file, or write the chapters in distinct .tex files, then merge them when ...
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Which web forums specialize in LaTeX general discussion?
There is also a subreddit for LaTeX, which primarily is about LaTeX, though the other TeX variations are discussed too.
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Insert extra blank pages after title
Two empty pages without headers and footers, and without increasing the page counter (\null is short for \hbox{}):
\shipout\null
\shipout\null
With headers and footers of page style empty and ...
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The correct way to perform a section break in LaTeX
The memoir class has various commands for producing what it calls "anonymous divisions". For example \plainbreak{2} will produce 2 blank lines while \fancybreak{{*}\\{* * *}\\{*}} typesets a centered ...
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Isn't LaTeX a complete software for producing books?
My own use is for poetry (see: http://madbaddangerous.com/?smd_process_download=1&download_id=1925, set in LaTeX) and prose. Not theses or math. But, after many years casual use of PDFLaTeX, XeTeX,...
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LaTeX for typesetting a fiction book
As mentioned in many of the comment, fiction books are usually much simpler than technical books. When I've typeset novels, I've normally used the book class and tweaked it with some new sectioning ...
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What to decide before writing a math book?
In addition to what is said, some small pieces of advice:
Use a version control system
Even if you work alone and all your history of editing is linear, you get this way a well-documented history of ...
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Can you help me optimize/improve this LaTeX book template for a short story anthology?
\sloppy
You don't want this.
\setstretch{1.15}
This is not wrong, but it contradicts \onehalfspacing. So remove whichever you don't want.
\setlength{\dimen0}{\textheight}
\addtolength{\dimen0}{...
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Typesetting a computer-science book with XeLaTeX+biber
I haven't done with the svmono but I just had to tweak another publisher class to use lualatex and so after a quick look at svmono I would say
I would prefer lualatex over xelatex due to the ...
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Add decoration at end of all chapters automatically
This code will add a decoration at the end of each chapter.
\makedecoration is executed before each \chapter, decorating the previous chapter, and also at the end of the document to decorate the last ...
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What packages help with typesetting settings specific to religious books?
The memoirclass provides automatically \book and \chapter divisions, so the main issue is setting up the formatting to the way you like them. Verses in the bible are functionally equivalent to ...
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Add decoration at end of chapter
Here is a solution
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{kantlipsum}
\begin{document}
\chapter{Chapter one}
\kant[1-3]
%\decoration
\ifdim\dimexpr\pagegoal-\pagetotal-\baselineskip\relax>.7\textheight
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Add decoration at end of chapter
The following uses x,y-coordinate labels/markers to measure the end-of-chapter fill, inserting a \chapterdecoration (you can change this) whenever there's more than 70% of the \textheight remaining.
\...
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What to decide before writing a math book?
I learned many good ideas about writing a mathematics book in LaTeX from the code found in the Stacks Project: http://stacks.math.columbia.edu/contribute. This is a huge and extremely complicated book,...
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Inspired exercise Sheet from Indesign
I think that the main problem for this format is that you want a two columns format inside a decorated bounding box.
Combination of tcolorbox and multiple columns is possible but under certain ...
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Isn't LaTeX a complete software for producing books?
Yes, (La)TeX and friends are used extensively to create books in many technical fields. You looked at a Springer book. Springer has LaTeX templates and I know of no authors in maths or physics who ...
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