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35 questions linked to/from Showcase of beautiful title page done in TeX
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How can I design a book cover?
Can anyone share his or her experience on designing a book cover? I just finished writing my e-book and now I am designing the cover. I tried \maketitle and the result was pretty ugly. I'd appreciate ...
104 votes
6 answers
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Beautiful presentations done with TeX and related systems
I recently had to persuade a fellow student that you can create beautiful presentations with LaTeX and beamer. Luckily, I already had some examples. But I'm sure that there are better presentations, ...
65 votes
5 answers
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Is there no easier way to float objects and set margins?
I come from a HTML / CSS background and am used to a particular way of setting margins, floats, etc. As a beginner in TeX, I am having a hard time positioning elements, probably because my mindset is ...
61 votes
5 answers
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Does anybody know a good source of (free) ornaments, decorations, frames, backgrounds etc.?
I'd like to prepare a "fancy" typographical project, more interesting visually than a "boring" black-on-white text. I'm not very talented at drawing, though, so I'd like to ask about a place to find (...
22 votes
3 answers
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How do I create an acknowledgment section?
I am trying to add an acknowledgment section like. I have tried the 'acknowledgments' and 'acknowledgements' environments (as seen on the internet), but LaTeX did not recognized it.
33 votes
1 answer
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Trying to do graphical decorations in "ClassicThesis style"
Is there a way to obtain an effect like the page below? The gray tones of the effect in the page below are uniforms but I would have different tones among the various shapes. The main gray tone should ...
20 votes
3 answers
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Creating a titlepage
I want to create a titlepage as the one shown here. But I don't know how to put a line under the logo and get the text and all the stuff in the right position. I've tried some things with: \begin{...
9 votes
2 answers
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Create page border using tikz
I want to create the page border like the image in the attachment but I don't know how to do that? Please help me and thank you.
25 votes
1 answer
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LaTeX3 and pauper's coffins
Frank Mittelbach in this answer said: "I would be interested who would attempt to do that in the plain TeX box model approach. In the MWE below is my approach which I will from now onwards call it for ...
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1 answer
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Code improvement on a title page design
I am designing a new title page to post in the topic Showcase of beautiful title page done in TeX but am having some issues with the code I wrote. I don't like and I know it can be improved. In ...
3 votes
3 answers
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Reproduce a ConTeXt book cover with LaTeX [duplicate]
I recently find a book cover generated with ConTeXt. It looks quite simple but I guess there is a few things to take into account like adjusting the text size to the height of the page. How could it ...
6 votes
1 answer
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Are there any packages providing collections of title pages? [closed]
I'm looking for a way to easily experiment with different title page styles, without having to design them myself. Something similar to what ms word offers.
3 votes
1 answer
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Creating a Title Page for Maths dissertation
I'm a third year maths undergrad, and am currently writing my dissertation using TexMaker. I'm not that familiar with the program, and am struggling to create an appropriate cover page (including ...
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1 answer
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Frame for a title page
The cover of Gonzalo Medina from here : Presentation Beamer [title page] is beautiful and bright i tried to do it like him but in \documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{report} here is my try \...
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2 answers
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Title page rendering incorrectly
I'm using a standard template for my title page of my document as found at the latex wikibook However, for some reason, the minipage on the right, with my supervisor's information, renders about one ...