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Error in chapter Style modification

for the past few days, I have been attempting to change the chapter style, but I've encountered an error with the class I am using. Here is my code: \documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{extra/MyThesis} \...
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How can I produce italic Georgia font in a title page, via a custom class?

I am trying to build a LaTeX class the reproduces my organization's branded Word template, based on the report class. I have most of the elements worked out, except for one aspect. When a report ...
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How to Suppress the Date Generated by Maketitle [duplicate]

Consider the code: \documentclass[titlepage,10pt]{book} \usepackage[showframe,margin=.3in,paperwidth=4in,paperheight=6in]{geometry} \textheight=5.25in \usepackage[frame,noinfo,center]{crop} \...
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Issue with redefinition of \maketitle in custom thesis class

I'm attempting to venture into some more advanced LaTeX by creating a custom thesis class for my university studies, as the existing examples are somewhat outdated and not to spec with the current ...
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Change the dependency of \maketitle command

I am trying to develop a class file for my department. I want to add two dependencies to the \maketitle command. As we have \title & \author as compulsory commands for \maketitle, I want \...
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How to automatically produce a separate title page?

Sometimes (in my field) a journal requires an anonymised version of the manuscript and a separate title page to be submitted. Other journals sometimes require other subsets of the overall document to ...
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maketitle in cls - override \rubricwidth from tex file

Can I override the properties in a cls file from a tex file? The \maketitle function of a cls I have to work with squeezes most of the title page into half the page width. I would like to change ...
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How to remove Indent while using book document class

while working on a project I noticed that some pages have a slight indent over the pages above them. you'll notice that all text on page 12, for example, is slightly more indented than page 11. I ...
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Why is the title of a 'report' set in smaller font than the chapter headings?

I'm writing a document using the report class. I'm noticing the chapter headings look pretty big (and bold), while the main title is much smaller - perhaps 60% the x-height or so. A(n almost) minimal ...
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Incompatibility of sagej and polyglossia Hebrew: no custom \titlepage

I am using the sagej class from here (web page) for an article that contains Hebrew text. For this, I use XeLaTeX with polyglossia to \setotherlanguage{hebrew}. Normally, the sagej class redefines \...
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Which core document classes recognise the titlepage option?

I've stumpled over this answer to another problem, and it states: The article class recognises the titlepage option, which forces the \maketitle command to create a separate page. To me the ...
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How the order you define commands in a class file changes the output?

I'm working with a class file, trying to adjust it to my needs, and somewhere in the middle of it is defined a function that writes the title of the paper. What I have is this: \title{ \vspace{-30pt}...
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\maketitle Error

\documentclass{doublecol-new} \def\newblock{\hskip .11em plus .33em minus .07em} \begin{document} \setcounter{page}{1} \LRH{ABCD} \RRH{EFGH} \VOL{x} \ISSUE{x} \PUBYEAR{xxxx} \BottomCatch \PUBYEAR{...
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smfart author in title

Upon output of \maketitle, the smfart class produces something like Title by Author Is there anyway I can remove the "by" bit? I think I've seen similar files do it, but I never had ...
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How can I add phone number for corresponding author in elsarticle style

Following the Elsarticle template, they provide the way to add corresponding author as below. %% Title, authors and addresses %% use the tnoteref command within \title for footnotes; %% use the ...
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Name of the author vanishes on titlepage

I cannot figure out why everything but the author's name appear on my title page. I use \documentclass[12pt]{uvamath} from my university and \title{Title} \what{Blabla paper} \author{Person} \...
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How do I reproduce this document theme?

It seems to me very similar to the default Beamer theme. I like it very much and wish to produce article with it too. What should I do to reproduce this?
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Generic title command used to insert a pdf or text specified as key value

I'm trying to get my own generic title command I can use either to include a pdf file as a title page, is that file exists, or include a text subdivided in keys using the xkeyval package. My question ...
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Redefined maketitle gives error

I'm currently using a template I found online, it included a .cls file that modified the usual \maketitle. Every time I compile with this class I get an error after the \maketitlesaying There's no ...
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Create a document cover using style class [closed]

I'm wanting to create a latex class called projeto.cls that should create this report cover image below, which has the following headers and footer for all reports generated. The fields defined entrie ...
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Why does \maketitle break my document?

I have a paper to submit in an hour, and have an issue with the \maketitle command. The template provided to me does not work, and the instructor has told me to figure it out on my own. Here is a ...
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„German“ quotation marks in .cls file

I have a class file which, among other things, generates a title page for my paper. The name of of my school, which appears at the top of the title page, is hard-coded into the class file. I would ...
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Can I make documentclass{book} look more like a book? [closed]

I am fairly new to LaTeX and am trying to write a book. Being a newbie I plumped for \documentclass{book} because that seemed like the obvious choice but I can't get it to look like a book. I'm fairly ...
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Access \@email in a custom LaTeX class

I am trying to customize an article class for my needs. I want to access \email{} in my class but without any success. This is my \maketitlepage section in cls file, \newcommand{\maketitlepage}{% \...
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Modifying a thesis class file

A friend of mine gave me a class file he had used for his dissertation, which he submitted this spring. This is a class file he wrote; it was not provided by the university. Between spring & ...
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Combine two .tex files [closed]

I'm making my phd dissertation in LaTeX. Although I am a noob, everything works like a charm, but now I have to make the titlepage. My university had a LaTeX .tex file (with .sty file,...) which ...
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Creating static head title for a document class

I am making my own document class in LaTeX but I have a problem on how will I make this title appear automatically when my class is used. Should I code it this way? \AtBeginDocument{% \vspace*{-0....
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How can I get \maketitle to create a separate title page with the article class?

I am working on a maths assignment and new to using LaTeX. I have written the assignment up, but I would like the title page to be its own page. Currently my title page is a few lines generated by \...
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Short documents

I need to write a short informal note-type document with a description of my new idea and a few equations - 2 pages max. I use the article document class, but it seems to be an overkill - the title ...
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Abstract page problems

I am using a report document classe. I have an abstract and an acknowledgement sections before the toc. This is my definition for Acknowledgements. I took it from someplace in the web, so there might ...
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\subtitle doesn't work in article document class

I'm relatively new to TeX but until now I used mostly the beamer class. There I did this: \documentclass{beamer} \title{title} \subtitle{subtitle} \author{name} \date{\today} \begin{document} ...
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Where to put the institute information in the article document class?

I've seen in other document classes that one can input the authors' institutes via special commands, for example in revtex4 I can put \title{Aggregation According to Classical Kinetics---From ...
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