Table of Contents

Introduction

The goal of this template is to provide a nice-looking book layout, easy to configure and fill in.

Here is an example preview for the table of content, and other main document items:


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Here is an example preview for chapter items, including the chapter heading, summary and discussion pages:


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Here is an example preview for appendix items, including the appendix heading with a mini table of content:


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Structure

The template is structured in the following way:

  • main.tex: This is the main TeX file to be compiled. Here you can include chapters, parts and appendices and also configure some settings (e.g. printable version).
  • appendices: This folder contains the appendices, one TeX file for each of them, to be included in main.tex.
  • chapters: This folder contains the chapters, one TeX file for each of them, to be included in main.tex.
  • figures: This folder is aimed to contain the figures (that is, the pictures to be captioned that are included in the list of figures).
  • icons: This folder is aimed to contain icons that are used without captions, e.g. these included with special text boxes (like tip).
  • parts: This folder contains every part other than chapters or appendices (i.e. abstract, foreword, references, acronyms, …), one TeX file for each of them, to be included in main.tex.
  • styles: This folder contains the available styles. Most of the included one should not be edited.

This structure follows the same one as for this master thesis template.

This particular template features a style especially designed for publishing at Lambert Academic Publishing, style/lap-publishing-book.sty.

Compilation

The compilation can easilly be configured in Texmaker by defining a Quick Build Command:

  1. Go to the menu Options
  2. Select Configure Texmaker
  3. Go to tab Quick Build

  4. In the field User : (…), replace the command with:

     pdflatex -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode %.tex|makeindex %.idx -s styles/index.ist|bibtex %.aux|makeglossaries %|pdflatex -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode %.tex|pdflatex -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode %.tex
  5. Then click OK

When editing the book with Texmaker:

  1. Open main.tex
  2. Go to the menu Options
  3. Select Define Current Document as “Master Document”
  4. Open main.idx for edition
  5. Click on Quick Build to compile

This will produce main.pdf with all the included chapters, parts and appendices.

Making your book

Tuning parts

This template includes multiple pre-filled (self-explanatory) part files of the dissertation, whose some are to be adapted and others should not be modified.

Parts that you should adapt:

  • parts/abstract.tex
  • parts/acknowledgements.tex
  • parts/acronyms.tex
  • parts/bibliography.bib
  • parts/foreword.tex
  • parts/glossary.tex

Parts that you should not adapt:

  • parts/index.tex
  • parts/lof.tex
  • parts/references.tex
  • parts/toc.tex

Adding chapters

This template has a particular layout for chapters. Each of them starts with a chapter cover page with:

  • Above: the chapter title.
  • On the left column: an upper and a lower paragraph.
  • On the right column: the mini table of content for the chapter.

In LaTeX, this is structured like the following:

\begin{chaptercover}%
{Chapter title}%
{Left column upper paragraph}%
{Left column lower paragraph}%
{chapter-reference}

Your chapter content.

\end{chaptercover}

Once you have written your new chapter in chapters/my-chapter.tex, do not forget to include it in main.tex (insert a line \include{chapters/my-chapter} where relevant).

Adding appendices

This template also features a particular layout for appendices. As matters separated from the main thread, they do not have cover pages but a mini table of content as well.

In LaTeX, this is structured like the following:

\begin{appchaptercover}%
{Appendix title}%
{app:appendix-reference}

Your appendix content.

\end{appchaptercover}

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