General ⇒ Paper specifications

[Humberto Munoz]

Hi Humberto,

important is to write \thispagestyle{empty} at the right place. Not in the preamble. After \begin{document} and before the second page starts.
But as you don't need plain pagestyle at all you can set it to be equal to empty. Write into your preamble before \begin{document}:

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\makeatletter
\let\ps@plain\ps@empty
\makeatother

Stefan

Stefan,

Thanks it works very well. The last question that I have is how I can change the heading References to 6. REFERENCES and centered. I am using:

\begin{thebibliography}{9}
\bibitem{Clarke}
F. H. Clarke,
\newblock {\em Optimization and Nonsmooth Analysis},
SIAM, Classics in Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, 1990.
\end{thebibliography}

Humberto

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Humberto,

how are your other headings? Centered and capitalized too?
How do you make the other headings? Using fancyhdr?
With the answers to the questions and if you show us you preamble for clarifying we should be able to provide a solution that fits.

Stefan

[Humberto Munoz]

Hi Humberto,

how are your other headings? Centered and capitalized too?
How do you make the other headings? Using fancyhdr?
With the answers to the questions and if you show us you preamble for clarifying we should be able to provide a solution that fits.

Stefan

Yes, the other heading are centered and capitalized, by using the code

\begin{center}
{\bf 5. CONCLUSIONS}
\end{center}

However for the references the square brackets leave an extra space inside. I want to know if I can eliminate the extra space.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Humberto,

that's an unusual (LaTeX) way to define the headings, usually one uses \chapter or \section etc. Perhaps you will use them later.
To help you with a quick solution, write directly before \begin{thebibliography}{9}:

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\def\chapter*#1{\begin{center}\bfseries\MakeUppercase{#1}\end{center}}

I don't like that but it should work. Tell me if something is not ok.

Regarding the references and square brackets show some example code, I don't have unwanted space in references.

Stefan

[Humberto Munoz]

Hi Humberto,

that's an unusual (LaTeX) way to define the headings, usually one uses \chapter or \section etc. Perhaps you will use them later.
To help you with a quick solution, write directly before \begin{thebibliography}{9}:

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\def\chapter*#1{\begin{center}\bfseries\MakeUppercase{#1}\end{center}}

I don't like that but it should work. Tell me if something is not ok.

Regarding the references and square brackets show some example code, I don't have unwanted space in references.

Stefan

Stefan,
I have tried \section before, but it does not centered the headings. Then I decided to make the headings with the code
\begin{center}
{\bf 1. REFERENCES}
\end{center}

It works, but I get the extra space in the square brackets. I also tried your quick solution but it does not work.

Humberto

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Ah, you are using article, then the code above has to be changed slightly:

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\def\section*#1{\begin{center}\bfseries\MakeUppercase{#1}\end{center}}

Try this right before \begin{thebibliography}{9}.

I cannot see what you mean with the extra space in square brackets. Can you post a screenshot or small example pdf? Or have a look at this minmal example, compile it and look at the result:

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\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{center}
{\bf 5. CONCLUSIONS}
\end{center}
See \cite{Clarke}.
\def\section*#1{\begin{center}\bfseries\MakeUppercase{#1}\end{center}}
\begin{thebibliography}{9}
\bibitem{Clarke}
F. H. Clarke,
\newblock {\em Optimization and Nonsmooth Analysis},
SIAM, Classics in Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, 1990.
\end{thebibliography}
\end{document}

Stefan

[Humberto Munoz]

Ah, you are using article, then the code above has to be changed slightly:

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\def\section*#1{\begin{center}\bfseries\MakeUppercase{#1}\end{center}}

Try this right before \begin{thebibliography}{9}.

I cannot see what you mean with the extra space in square brackets. Can you post a screenshot or small example pdf? Or have a look at this minmal example, compile it and look at the result:

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\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{center}
{\bf 5. CONCLUSIONS}
\end{center}
See \cite{Clarke}.
\def\section*#1{\begin{center}\bfseries\MakeUppercase{#1}\end{center}}
\begin{thebibliography}{9}
\bibitem{Clarke}
F. H. Clarke,
\newblock {\em Optimization and Nonsmooth Analysis},
SIAM, Classics in Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, 1990.
\end{thebibliography}
\end{document}

Stefan

The extra space ocurred when I use
\begin{center}
{\bf 6. REFERENCES}
\end{center}

\begin{itemize}
\item[[1]] F. H. Clarke, {\bf Optimization and Nonsmooth Analysis},
SIAM, Classics in Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, 1990.
\end{itemize}

How can I number the heading references, 6. REFERENCES?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Humberto,

The extra space ocurred when I use

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\begin{itemize}
  \item[[1]] F. H. Clarke, {\bf Optimization and Nonsmooth Analysis},
SIAM, Classics in Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, 1990.
\end{itemize}

If you use thebibliography and \bibitem again, then it should go away.

How can I number the heading references, 6. REFERENCES?

the quick way:

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\renewcommand*\refname{6. REFERENCES}

In general it's not good LaTeX style to number manually etc. instead of using \section etc. If you want to customize your sectioning titles like centering the titlesec package helps.

Stefan

[Humberto Munoz]

Hi Humberto,

The extra space ocurred when I use

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\begin{itemize}
  \item[[1]] F. H. Clarke, {\bf Optimization and Nonsmooth Analysis},
SIAM, Classics in Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, 1990.
\end{itemize}

If you use thebibliography and \bibitem again, then it should go away.

How can I number the heading references, 6. REFERENCES?

the quick way:

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\renewcommand*\refname{6. REFERENCES}

In general it's not good LaTeX style to number manually etc. instead of using \section etc. If you want to customize your sectioning titles like centering the titlesec package helps.

Stefan

Stefan,
It works. You have helped me a lot to finish my paper specifications. I will use your advices to improve my LaTex style.
Thanks so much
Humberto

[Stefan Kottwitz]

No problem, I understand if you have to finish your work and perhaps you have not yet enough time to read through a lot of documentation, but that will come. I just had to recommend titlesec - if I don't do it then somebody else would probably.

After including titlesec the sectioning format can be changed with one line, for example:

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\titleformat*{\section}{\centering\large\bfseries\scshape}

For illustration one complete example follows. Not perfect, just illustrating titlesec.

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\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{titlesec,bold-extra,blindtext}
\titleformat*{\section}{\centering\large\bfseries\scshape}
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\section{Introduction} \blindtext
\section{More} \blindtext
\section{And More} \blindtext
\section{Still More} \blindtext
\section{Conclusions} \blindtext
See \cite{Clarke}.
\let\stdsection\section% workaround for numbering:
\def\section*#1{\stdsection{#1}}
\begin{thebibliography}{9}
\bibitem{Clarke}
F. H. Clarke,
\newblock {\em Optimization and Nonsmooth Analysis},
SIAM, Classics in Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, 1990.
\end{thebibliography}
\end{document}

Just in case you don't have bold-extra or blindtext yet etc. I will attach a pdf file for demonstration and remove it later.

Stefan