miller@sunybcs.UUCP (02/17/87)
I am in need of a Preface macro for LaTeX, and was wondering if
someone had one that they could email me. It should have the following
characteristics.
1. should generate a chapter-like entry in the Contents (the Preface
will go after the contents and before the first chapter). It should
not have a chapter number, however.
2. page numbering should remain in lower case roman numerals (like
the Contents).
3. the header should contain 'Preface' in the same style as other
headers, such as 'Contents'.
4. the word 'Preface' should appear as the section title at about
the same vertical offset as Contents, but text should begin
shortly thereafter on the same page (much as the Bibliography does).
I would like this to work within the context of the 'book' document
style.
We have LaTeX 2.09, but our support staff is full of die-hard troff
gurus that won't touch TeX. The most they would have to do with LaTeX
was the installation.
Thanks in advance,
Russ Miller
Assistant Professor
SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science
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========================================================================rusty@weyl.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (02/19/87)
Try doing something like
\documentstyle{book}
\begin{document}
\pagenumbering{roman}
\chapter*{Preface\markboth{Preface}{Preface}}
(text of preface here)
\pagenumbering{arabic}
\chapter{First Chapter}
...
\end{document}
You also need an \addcontentsline. You could wrap this all up into an
environment with something like
\newenvironment{preface}{%
\pagenumbering{roman}%
\chapter*{Preface\markboth{Preface}{Preface}}%
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Preface}%
}{%
\pagenumbering{arabic}%
}
Then you could do \begin{preface} ... \end{preface}. Let me know if
it works.
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