List of available typesetting text options
These are the options available to writers and readers for controlling the look of typeset pages or page collections.
- surtitle
- author name appears on cover of books, reports and optionally in articles
- title
- appears on cover and in page header (books and reports) or footer (articles)
- short
- short title (optional) appears on book page header
- subtitle
- appears on cover and in page footer of books and reports
- copyright
- printed before © on book title verso page
- date
- day of print caption on book title verso page
document
- vreferror
- deprecated
- cover
- article cover page or alignment of cover text
- coverstyle
- font style for cover heading text
- titlepage
- layout style for book title page
- halftitle
- treatment of book half-title page
- preface
- print preface before the table of contents
- colorlinks
- use colour to denote hyperlinks
- toc
- generate a table of contents for an article or book chapter
- tablelist
- generate a list of tables
- figurelist
- generate a list of figures
- dottedtoc
- set toc page numbers flush right
page
- space
- interline spacing
- return
- include or omit letter return address
- colophon
- include or omit colophon
- pagesize
- ISO or US standard
- trim
- show trimming marks
- duplex
- format pages to print 2 sided
- watermark
- appears on every page
- marginshift
- format pages with wide outer margins
- chappg
- page numbers with chapter number prefix
- parasep
- separation between paragraphs
heading
- bookmarks
- pdf bookmarks setting
- chapterstyle
- style for chapter heading text in books
- autonumber
- depth of numbered sections
- sectionnewpage
- major sections start on a new page
- ucsection
- major section headings are uppercase or other style
- headingcolor
- use specified colour for heading text
- headingstyle
- font style for section heading text
body
- blockcolor
- colour of div class=block
- justification
- text justified or ragged right
- bodystyle
- font style for body text
- hrstyle
- dingbat character for horizontal rules
- hrrepeat
- use 3 dingbat characters
- urlstyle
- use a typewriter font for url text
- fontset
- predefined collections of sans and serif fonts
- fontsize
- point size of body text
float
- chapterbib
- print references after each chapter
- cfloatlist
- generate a list of custom floats
- cfloatcols
- number of columns in custom floats
- cfloatname
- prefix for custom float number
- cfloatstyle
- style for custom floats
- floathere
- allow figures, tables or custom floats to be placed here
- imagesize
- make all images smaller (includes side captions option)
- wrapfloat
- wrap text around framed images
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