[SLUG] next time you want to install Linux - consider this
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[SLUG] Latex question: chapter style
Hi
I'm using latex to (re-)produce a technical manual which is typeset in a
compact format,
and I wish to keep close to the original formatting.
The chapter style is quite simple but I can't find the way to modify any of the
available packages to reproduce it.
So far I've resorted to formatting the chapter heading in-line, as it occurs,
rather that using
a LaTeX technique.
The look of the chapter heading is such that the 'chaptername' and
'chapternumber' in \small size, to the left, and the 'chaptertitle' is
centered, in \LARGE small caps and bold.
The following lines produce the right format:
chapter 1
\vspace{-2mm}
\begin{center}
\LARGE\textsc{\textbf{Getting Started}}
\end{center}
\vspace{2mm}
However I think I should be doing it the latex way...
There seems to be plenty of help available for fancy chapter styles. What I
want is so simple that I haven't been able to find it by googling. The
essential difficulty is that the chapter name and number are to be on the left,
while the chapter title is to be centered.
Any ideas? Or do I finally buy the Latex Companion?
Nick
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Re: [SLUG] Latex question: chapter style
Hi
The chapter style is quite simple but I can't find the way to modify
any of the available packages to reproduce it.
Are you using the Book class or the Article class in the begindocument?
One can define your own command for this
\newcommand{\mychap}[1]{%
Chapter \thechapter
\vspace{-2mm}
\begin{center}
\LARGE\textsc{\textbf{#1}}
\end{center}
\vspace{2mm}
}
and use it like \mychap{Getting Started}
or you can redefine the \chapter command.
It's tricky. This is what I did ages ago. Have not tested it again.
\makeatletter
%Goosens p 28,29
\renewcommand{\chapter}{\newpage\secdef\cmda\cmdb}
\newcommand{\cmda}[2][default]{%
\begin{center}%
\sffamily\Large\bfseries #2%% Arg 2 - Main Title
\end{center}%
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{#1}% % Arg 1 - TOC
}
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Re: [SLUG] Latex question: chapter style
SNIP There seems to be plenty of help available for fancy chapter styles. What I want is so simple that I haven't been able to find it by googling. The essential difficulty is that the chapter name and number are to be on the left, while the chapter title is to be centered. Any ideas? Or do I finally buy the Latex Companion? Hi Nick, I haven't actually tried it myself, but the Memoir class seems to provide facilities to make this kind of design easy: see page 86 of the Memoir manual. Cheers, Alan Nick -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- Alan L Tyreehttp://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan Tel: +61 2 4782 2670Mobile: +61 427 486 206 Fax: +61 2 4782 7092FWD: 615662 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Latex question: chapter style
On Tue, 9 Oct 2007, Nick Croft wrote:
Hi
I'm using latex to (re-)produce a technical manual which is typeset
in a compact format, and I wish to keep close to the original
formatting.
The chapter style is quite simple but I can't find the way to modify
any of the available packages to reproduce it.
So far I've resorted to formatting the chapter heading in-line, as it
occurs, rather that using a LaTeX technique.
The look of the chapter heading is such that the 'chaptername' and
'chapternumber' in \small size, to the left, and the 'chaptertitle'
is centered, in \LARGE small caps and bold.
I believe you need to use the titlesec package. Here is the code that
I used to colourise the section and subsection commands:
\titleformat*{\section}{\Large\bf\color{clrheadings}}
\titleformat*{\subsection}{\large\bf\color{clrheadings}}
This is the documentation on the package:
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/titlesec/titlesec.pdf
Now when you use \section or \subsection then they will use the
perscribed style you defined.
This is a good faq that I use regarding your question:
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=secthead
Or in general look at for future questions:
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes
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Re: [SLUG] The Crossword Compiler, again.
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Re: [SLUG] X-client software.
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Re: [SLUG] X-client software.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 10/10/2007 02:01:23 PM: Hi, Is there anyone knows about any x-client software like humminbird exceed for free to use x11 under ssh tunnelling. i used to use any gui to run on putty setting the display into localhost and exceed used to pipe those displays into local computers. There is cygwin, with its Xwin Packages. Look at http://x.cygwin.com Another option, especially if its over the net and you don't mind installing some server sided software is to use NX. You can download the free (as in speech) freenx on the server from http://freenx.berlios.de/ The free (as in beer) client is downloadable from http://www.nomachine.com Cheers, Scott -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] X-client software.
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Re: [SLUG] X-client software.
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