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I need to emphasize some mid-paragraph equations. Of course, I'm using the \begin{equation} ... \end{equation} environment, and I tried the \boxed{ } option. However, the box is often too small around the equation, which doesn't "breathe well" inside the box. I tried adding some invisible characters ...

Okay, I think I have it right. Some parts of the code above don't go into the preamble. It must be placed AFTER the \mainmatter statement, and BEFORE the \backmatter . After the \backmatter command, I need to add \pagestyle{headings} to revert to the default style.

Is that right ? I need a ...

localghost wrote: To mimic the default style, you can use the well known commands to control font styles. See the below example.

This works.

However, I noticed that there are chapters numbers 0.0 and wrong titles appearing in the header, for the frontmatter and backmatter parts.

Actually the headers by default are completely in capitals. ... Your code looks OK, although the header now looks a bit intrusive.

Intrusive ? What do you mean ?

Without the styles in my modification, the code gives simple lowecase titles. How can I make the title in slanted capitals ? (that was ...

The below example uses the latter one because it is capable of much more things than only page styles.
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Cool ! It works (however, it clashed with my previous \pagestyle{headings} command).

However, the header's titles aren't in small caps. How should I modify the following code to make all ...

I'm currently using the "book" document class (the document is a huge book of about 900 pages), and the chapter/section titles and page number are showing in the header, which is what I want.

However, I would like to add a simple horizontal line, as what we have under the "paper" document class ...

Thanks, this command appears to do the job !

Is there a general preamble command to tell LaTeX to place all footnotes at the bottom of pages ? Currently, I'm using the \raggedbottom command under the \documentclass{book} environment to remove the variable vertical spacing. I need the footnotes to be placed exactly at the bottom of the page.

Hi Cham,

since equations/inequalities have to be aligned at a relation symbol, you could use an aligned environment. Also here you can customize size and fine-tune spacing. For example:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\begin{document}
\[
\sum_{\scriptsize\begin{aligned}i, j &= 1 ...

localghost wrote:Works fine for me. Please clarify in which way this is not satisfactory.

The "=" and "\ne" aren't exactly aligned. If you compile and watch the index closely, you'll notice a small (and noticeable) offset. It's ugly.