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LaTeX documentclass options illustrated

13. February 2013 by tom 22 Comments

The three most commonly used standard document-classes in LaTeX include: article, report and book. A number of global options allows customization of certain elements of the document by the author. Different document-classes might have different default settings. The following post illustrates available options with figures, provides alternatives and highlights the default option for each document-class. … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Introduction, LaTeX, Tips & tricks Tagged: 10pt, 11pt, 12pt, a4paper, article, book, documentclass, draft, fleqn, font size, landscape, LaTeX, leqno, letterpaper, notitlepage, onecolumn, oneside, openany, openright, options, report, titlepage, twocolumn, twoside

Multiple bibliographies with biblatex

22. October 2012 by tom 12 Comments

The biblatex package offers great flexibility while creating bibliographies. One of the things the package handles beautifully and can be achieved with little effort is the subdivision of a bibliography into multiple parts for per chapter/section bibliographies as well as by type or other patterns.   Per chapter/section bibliographies Biblatex implements the refsection environment to … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Bibtex & biblatex, Introduction, LaTeX, Package, Tips & tricks Tagged: article, biblatex, bibliography, book, chapter bibliography, LaTeX, multiple bibliographies, nottype, refsection, report, type, usepackage

Changing the font size in fancyhdr

9. October 2012 by tom 4 Comments

The default header with fancyhdr for a book (two-sided by default) displays the chapter at the inner side (left odd, right even) and the section title at the outer side (left even, right odd). For long chapter and/or section titles, the two may overlap. There are several possible workarounds to solve this issue. One may … [Read more…]

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Posted in: LaTeX, Package, Tips & tricks Tagged: book, fancyhdr, fancyhdr font size, font size, LaTeX, long header, overlapping header, report, usepackage

Changing the font size in LaTeX

29. August 2012 by tom 60 Comments

Changing the font size in LaTeX can be done on two levels, either affecting the whole document or parts/elements of it. Using a different font size on a global level will affect all normal-sized text as well as the size of headings, footnotes, etc. By changing the font size locally, however, a single word, a … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Introduction, LaTeX, Package, Tips & tricks Tagged: anyfontsize, article, book, extsizes, font, font size, footnotesize, huge, large, LaTeX, moresize, normalsize, report, scriptsize, small, tiny

Fancy LaTeX chapter styles

3. July 2012 by tom 73 Comments

Many books, theses and reports are written in LaTeX using the report or book document classes. Often, the authors make use of the default chapter style. There are, however, a great number of alternative styles available, some of which being very fancy or playful. This post is a collection of alternative chapter styles available, some … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Introduction, LaTeX, Package, Tips & tricks Tagged: book, chapter, chapter style, fancy chapter, fncychap, LaTeX, memoir, report, title format, titlesec, usepackage
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