Book Template

These are the common options available to writers and readers for controlling the look of all documents.

Format: format output format (hide makepdf) -
Page size: pagesize ISO or US standard (*A4;A5;US| US letter;HU| Half US;TP| Trade paperback;CH| Classic hardback) +
Duplex: duplex format pages to print 2 sided (*check on) +
Watermark: watermark appears on every page (|[none], draft, exposure draft, confidential, sample) +

Heading style: headingstyle font style for section heading text (*sans;serif) +
Body style: bodystyle font style for body text (sans;*serif) +
Font set: fontset predefined collections of sans and serif fonts (*pslatex|times, default|computer modern, newcent|new century, palatino, palatcm|palatino modern, fourier|utopia, kepler, libre, venturis) +
Spacing: space text spacing (*french, single, onehalf|1.5, double) +
Heading colour: headingcolor colour used for section heading text (*| None, Aquamarine, Bittersweet, BlueViolet, Cerulean, BrickRed, DarkOrchid, ForestGreen, MidnightBlue, NavyBlue, OliveGreen, Periwinkle, PineGreen, Plum, RawSienna, RedOrange, RoyalBlue, RoyalPurple, Sepia, Violet, WildStrawberry) +
Colour links: colorlinks use colour to denote hyperlinks (check on) +
Urls typewriter-style: urlstyle use typewriter font for url text (*check on) +

These are options available to writers and readers for controlling the look of page collections typeset as a book.

Type: ptype publish type (hide book) -
Author: surtitle author name appears on cover (“Wikipublisher”)
Title: title appears on cover and in page header (“$Title”)
Subtitle: subtitle appears on cover and in page footer (“From $WikiTitle Books”)
Date caption: date caption for day of print on title verso page (=20)
Cover alignment: cover alignment of cover text (*left;centre;right) +
Cover heading style: coverstyle font style for cover heading text (*sans;serif) +
Title page style: titlepage layout style for title page (*regular;fancy;fancier) +
Halftitle page: halftitle treatment of halftitle page (*|on;count|count as page i;off) +

Chapter-page numbers: chappg page numbers with chapter prefix (check on) +
Chapter style: chapterstyle style for chapter heading text (*Plain,Robyn,Sonny,Lenny,Glenn,Conny,Rejne,Bjarne,Bjornstrup,Gustav,Kate,Robert) +
Section style uppercase: ucsection style for section heading text (check on) +
Autonumber depth: autonumber depth of numbered sections (0| off;1;*2;3) +
PDF bookmarks: bookmarks include section numbers (*| off;numbered;autonumbered| to autonumber depth) +
Preface before contents: preface print preface before the table of contents (*check on) +
List chapter contents: toc generate a minitoc for each chapter (check on) +
Chapter bibliography: chapterbib print references after each chapter (check on) +

Paragraph separator: parasep separation between paragraphs (*indent;space) +
List tables: tablelist generate a list of tables (check on) +
List figures: figurelist generate a list of figures (check on) +
Dotted contents: dottedtoc page numbers flush right in table of contents (*check on) +
Justification: justification text justified or ragged right (*check on) +
Rule style: hrstyle style for horizontal rules (*105|clover cross, 150|sparkle cross, 166|diamond cross, 121|bold asterisk, 122|open asterisk, 133|petal asterisk, 134|open petal asterisk, 140|five petal flower, 144|snowflake, 246|aldus leaf, 247|hedera leaf, 040|space, asterisk) +
Rule style repeat: hrrepeat repeat horizontal rule character (check on) +
Text size: fontsize font size for body text and headings (10pt| small;*11pt| regular;12pt| large) +

These are the options that control how floating objects display.

Image size: imagesize make all images smaller (*regular;small;sidecaps|side captions;rotate|allow rotation;wide) +
Allow floats here: floathere place floats at the current position if possible (figures;tables;cfloats|custom floats;*on|all floats;off) +
Custom float style: cfloatstyle style used to format custom floats (boxed;ruled;plain;*plaintop|plain top;shaded) +
Custom float name: cfloatname name used to label custom floats (hide *$CfloatName) +
Custom float columns: cfloatcols number of columns in custom floats (*|1;2;3) +
List custom floats: cfloatlist generate a list of custom floats ($CfloatList;*|off) +

The reader’s choices override the writer’s. A + indicates that this item is a default unless over-ridden.

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Page last modified on 14 January 2012