I was asked more than once how to produce words instead of numbers in the chapter heading. This is fairly straight forward, but requires patching the chapter macro. I will show how to do this for chapter. However, this works similarly for part, section, and subsection. Loading the required packages First we load the … [Read more…]
In a recent comment, I was asked if there is a way to carry over the table of contents heading in the report document class. In other words, reproduce the heading on every page of the table of contents. The atbegshi package offers a solution. The package provides a hook, which allows execution of … [Read more…]
Recently I was asked how to produce multiple glossaries in the same document. The glossaries package, which supersedes glossary, provides such functionality. In this post, I primarily focus on adding topic-specific glossaries besides the main glossary and list of acronyms. Links to further readings are given for glossaries package basics as well as for chapter-/section-/equation-wise … [Read more…]
By default, the table of contents (TOC), list of figures (LOF) and list of tables (LOT) are typeset as chapters when using the report document class. However, the level of the heading can be changed. In this post, I will show how to decrease the level of the TOC, LOF, and LOT to section. Similarly, … [Read more…]
The fancyhdr package provides an easy and flexible way to customize the page style. Furthermore, the package makes it easy to define new page styles. In this post, I will briefly show how to define an alternative page style in general and illustrate two possible applications including complete code examples: Different page style in the … [Read more…]