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How to write a book in LaTeX

I have taken a look at other questions, and I don't see any answer to my question. If this is a duplicate for some question I haven't seen, feel free to comment. I am an experienced TeX user, I've been writing with TeX for about 3-4 years now. I am…
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"The LaTeX Companion", 3rd Edition

I have just realized that "The LaTeX Companion" is published in it's 3rd edition: https://www.amazon.com/LaTeX-Companion-Techniques-Computing-Typesetting/dp/0134658949 However, it is not available from Amazon, it seems. How can I purchase the 3rd…
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Why should I buy a TeX/LaTeX guide book?

I am relatively new to TeX/LaTeX and so far learnt all about it using online documentation or question-and-answer websites like this one. Should I consider buying a LaTeX guide book though? What would be your advices for doing so?
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The LaTeX Companion, Third Edition

I'm thinking of putting The LaTeX Companion, Third Edition on my wishlist for Christmas. In this regard I have a few questions: (1) According to https://www.informit.com/store/latex-companion-parts-i-ii-3rd-edition-9780138166489?ranMID=24808 the…
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Where to find the "spiffy new printings" of Knuth's Computers & Typesetting books?

On Donald E. Knuth's website, Knuth states that "new and updated printings of Volumes A, B, and C became available in April, 2012", but I cannot seem to find these anywhere. Knuth describes these "spiffy new printings" as "fresh versions that are…
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Who wrote "What are TeX, LaTeX, and friends?"

Who wrote What are TeX, LaTeX, and friends? I want to reference it in my article.
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How to write a book in LaTeX?

I wish to turn several of my blog article series into a PDF e-book but I have never used LaTeX before for creating books. For example, I want to take my article series, improve it and turn it into a book. I'll probably start with this guide that I…
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Capital part names in book class

This is a follow-up question to the one about the capitalization of chapter names in the book class. Now I would like to make capital the names of book parts in the book class. Part 1 --> PART 1 I use ShareLaTeX with…
Adam
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Organization of a commentary book

I am writing a commentary book made of about 500 pages, where each page contains up to 3 sections (different commentaries on the same verse), "a" "b" and "c". In each page, the content length of each section is different: in page 1, for example,…
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any nice book templates for math-based topics?

I am looking around for nice book templates, and I am quite disappointed. I found similar questions on tex.stackexchange (e.g. Good LaTeX template for book about maths), but the book templates usually offered are either "book", "amsbook" or…
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The Herbert Voß series of LaTeX books

Yesterday I spent a lot of money ordering four titles of the Herbert Voß series of LaTeX books from Amazon. The books that I've ordered are: Einführung in LaTeX Mathematiksatz mit LaTeX Tabellen mit LaTex Bibliografien mit LaTeX However, now I…
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Print chapter on right side

I want to have a twoside document, left pages should be aligned more to the left and right pages more to the right. Also, when I begin a chapter this should always begin on the right side. All the pages before introduction should have roman…
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Packages to use when using \include

To write a large document, if I understand correctly, the structure is as follows: \documentclass{book} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage[french]{babel} \usepackage[left=1.5cm, right=1.5cm, top=1.5cm,…
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How to create a bilingual book where part, chapters, sections, subsections, table of contents are also bilingual

I would like to write a bilingual book (say, English and French). The only requirements are that The French text should be printed on the left-hand pages and the corresponding English translation printed on the right. The page numbers for both the…
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Is there any good books/documents that describe LaTeX usage in Computer Science?

Till now I know that using LaTeX CS students can draw UML diagram easily with gorgeous look. I personally use LaTeX to make UML for my Software Design Pattern Lab. LaTeX also supports for following things- 1.topological sort(example) 2.any…
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