Simple LaTeX template for books and book-style compilations, written by Amber Jain.
Source: https://github.com/amberj/latex-book-template.
This template was originally published on ShareLaTeX and subsequently moved to Overleaf in November 2019.
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%% LaTeX book template %%
%% Author: Amber Jain (http://amberj.devio.us/) %%
%% License: ISC license %%
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\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{book}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}
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% Source: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Hyperlinks %
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\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
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% 'dedication' environment: To add a dedication paragraph at the start of book %
% Source: http://www.tug.org/pipermail/texhax/2010-June/015184.html %
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\newenvironment{dedication}
{
\cleardoublepage
\thispagestyle{empty}
\vspace*{\stretch{1}}
\hfill\begin{minipage}[t]{0.66\textwidth}
\raggedright
}
{
\end{minipage}
\vspace*{\stretch{3}}
\clearpage
}
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% Chapter quote at the start of chapter %
% Source: http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/53380 %
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\makeatletter
\renewcommand{\@chapapp}{}% Not necessary...
\newenvironment{chapquote}[2][2em]
{\setlength{\@tempdima}{#1}%
\def\chapquote@author{#2}%
\parshape 1 \@tempdima \dimexpr\textwidth-2\@tempdima\relax%
\itshape}
{\par\normalfont\hfill--\ \chapquote@author\hspace*{\@tempdima}\par\bigskip}
\makeatother
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% First page of book which contains 'stuff' like: %
% - Book title, subtitle %
% - Book author name %
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% Book's title and subtitle
\title{\Huge \textbf{Sample Book Title} \footnote{This is a footnote.} \\ \huge Sample book subtitle \footnote{This is yet another footnote.}}
% Author
\author{\textsc{First-name Last-name}\thanks{\url{www.example.com}}}
\begin{document}
\frontmatter
\maketitle
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% Add a dedication paragraph to dedicate your book to someone %
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\begin{dedication}
Dedicated to Calvin and Hobbes.
\end{dedication}
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% Auto-generated table of contents, list of figures and list of tables %
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\tableofcontents
\listoffigures
\listoftables
\mainmatter
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% Preface %
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\chapter*{Preface}
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\section*{Un-numbered sample section}
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\section*{Another sample section}
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\section*{Structure of book}
% You might want to add short description about each chapter in this book.
Each unit will focus on <SOMETHING>.
\section*{About the companion website}
The website\footnote{\url{https://github.com/amberj/latex-book-template}} for this file contains:
\begin{itemize}
\item A link to (freely downlodable) latest version of this document.
\item Link to download LaTeX source for this document.
\item Miscellaneous material (e.g. suggested readings etc).
\end{itemize}
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% Give credit where credit is due. %
% Say thanks! %
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\section*{Acknowledgements}
\begin{itemize}
\item A special word of thanks goes to Professor Don Knuth\footnote{\url{http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/}} (for \TeX{}) and Leslie Lamport\footnote{\url{http://www.lamport.org/}} (for \LaTeX{}).
\item I'll also like to thank Gummi\footnote{\url{http://gummi.midnightcoding.org/}} developers and LaTeXila\footnote{\url{http://projects.gnome.org/latexila/}} development team for their awesome \LaTeX{} editors.
\item I'm deeply indebted my parents, colleagues and friends for their support and encouragement.
\end{itemize}
\mbox{}\\
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\noindent Amber Jain \\
\noindent \url{http://amberj.devio.us/}
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% NEW CHAPTER! %
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\chapter{Introductory Chapter}
\begin{chapquote}{Author's name, \textit{Source of this quote}}
``This is a quote and I don't know who said this.''
\end{chapquote}
\section{Section heading}
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1. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
2. Duis ac mi magna, a consectetur elit.
3. Curabitur posuere erat \emph{dignissim ligula euismod} ut euismod nisi.
4. Fusce vulputate facilisis neque, et ornare mauris mattis vel.
5. Mauris sit amet nulla mi, vitae rutrum ante.
6. Maecenas quis nulla risus, vel tincidunt ligula.
7. Nullam ac enim neque, non \emph{dapibus} mauris.
8. Integer volutpat leo a orci suscipit eget rhoncus urna eleifend.
\noindent Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Duis risus ante, auctor et pulvinar non, posuere ac lacus. Praesent egestas nisi id metus rhoncus ac lobortis sem hendrerit. Etiam et sapien eget lectus interdum posuere sit amet ac urna\footnote{Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Duis risus ante, auctor et pulvinar non, posuere ac lacus.}:
\subsection{Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.}
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\subsection{Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing.}
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\subsection{Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet}
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\subsection{Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, auctor et pulvinar non}
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\section{Another section heading}
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% Sample table %
% Source: www1.maths.leeds.ac.uk/latex/TableHelp1.pdf %
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\begin{table}[ht]
\caption{Sample table} % title of Table
\centering % used for centering table
\begin{tabular}{c c c c}
% centered columns (4 columns)
\hline\hline %inserts double horizontal lines
S. No. & Column\#1 & Column\#2 & Column\#3 \\ [0.5ex]
% inserts table
%heading
\hline % inserts single horizontal line
1 & 50 & 837 & 970 \\
2 & 47 & 877 & 230 \\
3 & 31 & 25 & 415 \\
4 & 35 & 144 & 2356 \\
5 & 45 & 300 & 556 \\ [1ex] % [1ex] adds vertical space
\hline %inserts single line
\end{tabular}
\label{table:nonlin} % is used to refer this table in the text
\end{table}
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\begin{itemize}
\item Mauris sit amet nulla mi, vitae rutrum ante.
\item Maecenas quis nulla risus, vel tincidunt ligula.
\item Nullam ac enim neque, non \emph{dapibus} mauris.
\end{itemize}
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\subsection{Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.}
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\subsection{Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing}
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\end{document}