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Questions tagged [book-design]

{book-design} is about the design and layout of books. Typical subjects are cover, title pages, margins, odd and even pages and order of sections in front matter and back matter.

is about the design and layout of books. Typical subjects are cover, title pages, margins, odd and even pages and order of sections in front matter and back matter.

Popular document classes are book, scrbook and .

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Strategy for writing a book using LaTeX

This is my first time using LaTeX. It's also my first time writing a book. But I find myself with a little time on my hands and I thought I'd write a simple(ish) book for my 11yo son to learn computer programming. The book will contain lots of code…
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Oxford book template (Choquet-Bruhat, Maggiore, Simon,...)

I love the style of the book on general relativity by Choquet-Bruhat. I think it's the same as Maggiore's book on qft and Simon's on solid state physics. I was wondering if this book design template or class is publicly available or if it is…
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Book or website about book design

I am planning to study about book design. The final object is that given a book I can write a latex book template to achieve the same style. Could you recommend me some books or website to learn this kind of knowledge? What I have learned is through…
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Booklet with a specific page order rule

Friends, consider the following example (mytext.tex): \documentclass[a5paper,oneside,12pt]{book} \begin{document} {\Huge A} \newpage {\Huge B} \newpage {\Huge C} \newpage {\Huge D} \newpage {\Huge E} \newpage {\Huge F} \newpage {\Huge…
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How do I create a book with separately produced chapters?

I want to create a book type file, where each chapter is separatly compiled. That is I get the whole thing as well as each individual chapters in pdf or dvi or ps format. How do I do that?
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Book style used in Concrete Mathematics

Does anyone know what style is used in Dr. Knuth's Concrete Mathematics? I'm hoping to use it for my dissertation. I know that they use the concrete and Euler fonts, but with regards Chapter formatting etc. are they using anything other than the…
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Do people use LaTeX or InDesign (or something else) for a technical report / book?

I was wondering how people write / layout a technical report / book. I have the following requirements: main text is two columns each chapter contains many graphs / figures / tables that span both columns bibliography at the end of most chapters…
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Different chapters, different layout

On request, I have two different layouts for chapters for a book. The first one is exclusive to the Chapter 1 and the other one is for the others. The layout affect how the sections, definitions and paragraphs are displayed. I have the code to…
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Write a book using Latex!

I want to write a physics book with the style like this. Can anyone help me! I need two columns with different width in one page. Thank for viewing! Here is "theory part" And "exercise part"
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Documentclass for journal-like compilation of several authors

I am looking for a documentclass to achieve the following: I would like to typeset a compilation ( abook or a volume of a journal) which consists of completely independent articles (which I will call "contribution" here, just not to mix them up with…
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Bind book from scanned PDF

I would like to produce a bound copy of this book provided as a scanned PDF. The pages should be printed centered on larger sheets with crop marks in the correct order for book printing. For this I used the geometry, pdfpages and crop packages and…
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What is the best way to use Latex for literary documents?

I was wondering, just out of curiosity: what would be the best way to produce literature-related documents in Latex? I have only ever written technical and scientific documents myself, so I really don't know if there are some famous packages that…
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A question about \includeonly

The new book I translate is composed by two volumes A and B. Each volume must have its own index and table of contents and page numbering starting from 1 but of course the cross references between the two volumes must be valid. Lets say that the…
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Setting off an example from the main text

In math and science textbooks, we often have a main body of text that describes the principles, and interspersed throughout this text are examples. In upper-division and graduate texts, it seems like it's common simply to weave the examples into the…
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Reason for align in book?

When I use the documentclass book, I notice that it will align even numbered pages to the right and odd numbered pages to the left, so that when printed, the text of my document will be closer to the center. Is there a typographical reason for this,…
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