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…]
Whether you are working on a book, a doctoral thesis, or an extensive report, large documents can be difficult. The source code becomes confusing; you scroll back and forth to find what you are looking for; and processing the document can take minutes rather than seconds. In this article, I describe some tools and … [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…]
In the standard document classes report and book, figure and table counters are reset after every chapter. On the other hand, article does not reset these counters when a new section is started. The chngcntr package provides the \counterwithin and \counterwithout commands to redefine a counter, by adding or removing a dependency. Through these commands, … [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…]