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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Reproducing the textbook Introduction to Solid State Physics
While examining the embedded fonts used in the book
Introduction to Solid State Physics by Charles Kittel (2005 edition), I started wondering whether its typography could realistically be reproduced ...
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Embracing the present and future of LaTeX: where to start?
Which ressources (and in which order) would you recommend to (re)learn modern LaTeX for an advanced user that learned LaTeX twenty years ago?
I have the impression that many things have changed these ...
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Getting Page Numbers to Populate in ToC for Unnumbered Chapters and Sections [book]
Except that the sections in the preliminaries aren't populating page numbers, this is the formatting that I'd like for the ToC. Is there a way to tether a specific line in the body of the book to the ...
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How can I make the marginnote appear on the margin side of the column they were called from in a two-column book? [closed]
My problem is that in a two-column book, when the marginnote is placed as the last word (or near the last word) of the left column line end, the note jumps to the right margin instead of being placed ...
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Book design with TikZ
there's a way to desgin a book cover like this one?
MWE The only thing i managed to do were the frames
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[paperwidth=115mm, paperheight=195mm]{geometry}
\usepackage{...
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Thumb index on wrong side in book class with openright
I'm using the book class with the openright option and the thumbs package to generate thumb index tabs. Each chapter starts on a right-hand (odd-numbered) page as it should, but the thumb index ...
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Using different images with fancyhdr for book class?
I'm trying to include an image in the top outer corner of the page, so it's in a different location on the preview and it is a different image for odd and even pages.(the page number is on the outer ...
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pgfmorepages logical page separation
I want to create a book with pdfmorepages and I need to set the page separation, in order to allow a binding space. Right now I have set this layout:
\pgfpagesuselayout{4 on 2, book format} [a4paper, ...
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Four pages per sheet [duplicate]
I want to write a small book on A4 paper, with 4 pages per sheet, arranged such that each sheet can be folded individually; the pages will then be arranged as (1,4,3,2) (5,8,7,6) ... What is the best ...
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how to center chapter titles and chapter quote at the top in a multicolumn book document in latex?
I'm using the book class in LaTeX and want to write my chapters in two columns using the multicol package. But I want the chapter title and chapter quote to appear centered at the top of the page, ...
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How to include (mini) TOC for each part rather than each chapter?
I often have large book or report class documents with several "parts" separating blocks of chapters. I have previously used the minitoc package to create a mini table of contents directly ...
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How to keep the header and footer fixed at the corners regardless of the margins?
I’m still trying to format my document to match a certain book as closely as possible for my group assignment. With the help of everyone here, I’ve learned that the book uses margin notes placed ...
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Break long URL in BibLaTeX
Working to build a book in LaTeX using a bibliography for each section. I'm using BibLaTeX, but I'm struggling getting long links to break across lines. Here is my long MWE:
\documentclass[twosided,...
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Get the header style from standard classes in KOMA class
I am moving from the standard class book to the koma class scrbook because of various reasons. Now I like to have exactly the same header in as in the standard classes. How do I achive this? I have ...
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Aligning and spacing of `\dotfill` to mimic table of contents in `tabularx` environment
I am making a table of notation for a document I am writing using the tabluarx environment, as suggested in a solution to another post of mine. My question concerns the spacing of the \dotfill command ...
