I'm writing a booklet for my debate club in LyX, and it is a collection of Prep Cases - each prep case is a chapter. Currently I have a "new page" after every chapter, but I want something more - I want to make sure chapters begin in odd numbered pages, so that when I print the whole booklet in duplex - each prep case will be a standalone, separable unit. Is that possible in LyX or plain LaTeX?
Edit: silly me. I meant to say sections and not chapters. Is this possible with sections?
I'm not sure how to do this in Lyx, but if it will let you slip in some raw LaTeX, put this in your preamble:
\let\originalsection=\section
\renewcommand\section{\par\cleardoublepage\originalsection}
Normally, this is done using the openright option on the document class. This causes \chapter to use \cleardoublepage internally, thus starting on an odd page.
You can also use \cleardoublepage manually instead but just using the option is more convenient.
I am using the Exam class (based on Article) and I got this to work in LyX 2.2 with the following:
Document>Document Settings>Page Layout>Two-sided document
Insert>Formatting>Clear Double Page whenever you want to force a part of your document to start on an odd-numbered page.
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I just started using the article chapterstyle in Memoir.
I'm composing in LyX, with each section of the article in a child document.
When compiling from the main document, I want each section to be numbered as follows:
1. Introduction
2. Related Literature
2.1 Literature from Long Ago
2.2 Literature from Yesterday
... Etc.
n-1. Conclusion
n. References
To accomplish this the top-level section headings use \chapter. Numbering, formatting, etc. is perfect. Except: each \chapter is triggering a page eject, and I can't figure out how to fix this.
What's the easiest way to make each \chapter (section of the article) begin below the preceding one when there's space on the page?
memoir has a macro called \clearforchapter that normally ensures that chapters start at the correct page. You can disable it like this:
\documentclass{memoir}
\renewcommand{\clearforchapter}{}
\begin{document}
\chapter{test}
test
\chapter{test2}
test
\end{document}
How could I number the tables in my article chapter based ? So I want all the tables in the fifth section to be numbered like "Table 5.1", ..., "Table 5.n".
I tried
\usepackage{chngcntr}
\counterwithin{figure}{section}
\counterwithin{table}{section}
\counterwithin{equation}{section}
but I am having some problems (missing package I guess).
However, I need a simpler solution, without the need to use such packages.
The article class doesn't have chapters. Try the book or report classes - you'll find that the tables and figures are automatically numbered according to chapter.
Here is a solution without the use of any package (courtesy of "The Latex Companion", A1.4):
\makeatletter
\renewcommand{\thetable}{\thesection.\#arabic\c#table}
\#addtoreset{table}{section}
\makeatother
This resets the table counter whenever a new section is started, and formats it as sectionno.tableno instead of just tableno. You can change the figure and equation counters similarly.
If you are using the amsmath package (or an AMS class like amsart that loads it automatically), you can use
\numberwithin{table}{section}
This was created for equations, but works for any pair of counters though supposedly there might be tricky situations that it does not handle well.
IEEE conference publications in two-column format require authors to manually equalize the lengths of the columns on the last page of the final submission. I have typically done this by inserting a \newpage where necessary -- which usually ends up being somewhere amidst my (manually entered) references.
However, I have recently begun using BibTeX to manage references, and have now run into a problem: my last page contains only a few (generated) references, and I can't figure out how to manually equalize the columns.
The last page is the tail end of what is generated by:
\bibliographystyle{IEEEtran}
\bibliography{IEEEabrv,library}
Any ideas on how I can equalize the columns while continuing to use BibTeX?
I have submitted to both ACM and IEEE conferences and the easiest thing for me has been using:
\usepackage{flushend}
I've heard it doesn't always work well, but it's been great for me
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/flushend
I went back to RTFM again, and it turns out this is addressed right in "How to Use the IEEEtran LaTeX Class" by Michael Shell (maintainer). Section XIV notes that IEEEtran helpfully provides the \IEEEtriggeratref{} command for just this purpose. By default, it fires a \newline at the given BibTeX reference number. You can even change the command to fire with \IEEEtriggercmd{}.
It can also be done by using the balance package. You simply include the balance package in the preamble (\usepackage{balance}) and insert \balance some place on the last page of your document (for instance right in front of the references). However, I'm not sure if it's working if the last page (both columns) is completely full of references...
IEEE requires authors to equalize the lengths of the columns on the last page.
ACM makes us do this too. I just wind up inserting \vfill\break by hand either in the main text or somewhere in the .bbl file, wherever it makes the columns balance. By the time camera-ready copy goes to ACM, they want the .bbl file inlined by hand anyway, so tinkering by hand does not present an additional hardship.
The reference-number trick might be nice except I never use numbered references :-)
The multicols environment works only if you're luck and your last page comes out exactly as bibliography.
It would be extremely good (and not so difficult) if some enterprising hacker would build the "balance the two columns in the last page" functionality straight into LateX's \output routine. The flexibility is there in the underlying engine, and it would make a lot of people happy.
Not sure if multicol conflicts with bibtex at all, and I don't have time to check, sorry. But try this:
use the multicol package:
\usepackage{multicol} in your preamble, then:
\begin{multicols}{2}
\bibliographystyle{IEEEtran}
\bibliography{IEEEabrv,library}
\end{multicols}
Multicol automatically balances columns. I would recomend using it through out your document, instead of using the .cls or .sty's twocolumn option.
I have a thesis in which I want to group some chapters together, using the \part command.
What I would like is to have the following:
Chapter 1
Part I
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Part II
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
So the last chapter should again be on the same level as the parts. In the table of contents of the text you can't really detect it, because Parts are on the same level anyway.
The problem is that in the PDF, the chapter 6 is added under Part II.
Does anyone know of a way to change that?
The bookmark package can do this quite nicely, among other things. It also only uses a single pass to embed PDF bookmarks into the document.
\part{...}
\chapter{...}
\bookmarksetup{startatroot}
\chapter{...}
The fact that LaTeX does it wrong probably means that something is wrong with the structure of your document: \part is not meant to group chapters, but to devide the document in parts. The difference is that every chapter should be in a part.
Try 'introduction' or 'preliminaries' as a name for the part containing chapter 1.
It might be possible to work around, but you'd have to redefine command throughout the document. It might be worthwhile to use \chapter* for chapters not in a pat, step the chapter-counter manually, and manually call \addcontentsline with the right argument. However, this is IMHO bad use of LaTeX: for well-structured documents, the standard LaTeX commands should suffice.
In my LaTeX document I've got a table of contents that is automatically generated by collecting everything that is of the form \chapter.
However, I've got an acknowledgements chapter before the table of contents and I don't want it to be automatically labelled "Chapter 1" or captured in the table of contents. Should I be avoiding \chapter altogether and use \section instead? I want to keep the font/formatting that other chapters have though.
The usual way to handle that kind of thing is with the \frontmatter command. Put it after the \begin{document}, and then put \mainmatter right before the \chapter you want to correspond to chapter 1. This may only work in the book class. If you're using \chapter in a report, then \chapter* should also create a chapter that has no number and won't show up in the table of contents.
Indeed, as unknown (google) mentioned, using \frontmatter and \mainmatter is the best solution. This will also adjust your page numbering to lowercase roman numerals for the front matter. However, it works only on book and similar document classes.
In case you're using report, try \chapter*. This will create a chapter without a number that does not appear in the table of contents.
For articles \chapter* does not appear to work. Instead use \section*.