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gbux
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frustrating formatting error

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so, this is like latex day 2. Im getting a good handle and having a blast doing it. I have an assignment for my prob and stats class to make an outline of chapter 2 and thought this was a great time to learn latex. Im doing fairly well, and making use of every search bar I can lol. im at a part that im having a lot of trouble with. I have my title and everything, and it shows up all nicey nice, but then the author name also shows up on top of page 2 (which i removed to protect my good name lol) and then the title shows up again on top of page 3. also the margins are weird on every other page. heres my code:

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Code, edit and compile here:
\documentclass[11pt]{amsart}
\usepackage{geometry} % See geometry.pdf to learn the layout options. There are lots.
\geometry{letterpaper} % ... or a4paper or a5paper or ...
%\geometry{landscape} % Activate for for rotated page geometry
%\usepackage[parfill]{parskip} % Activate to begin paragraphs with an empty line rather than an indent
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{epstopdf}
\usepackage{setspace}
\DeclareGraphicsRule{.tif}{png}{.png}{`convert #1 `dirname #1`/`basename #1 .tif`.png}
\huge
\title{{\Huge Chapter 2 Study Guide}}
\large
\author{}
%\date{} % Activate to display a given date or no date
\begin{document}
\begin{titlepage}
\end{titlepage}
\doublespace
\pagestyle{myheadings}
%\subsection{}\
\section*{\textbf{Section 2.3}}
\pagestyle{myheadings}
\textbf{Theorem 2.3.1-}
P($A^{C}$)=1-P(A)
\textbf{Theorem 2.3.2-}
P($\varnothing$)=0
\textbf{Theorem 2.3.3}
 
 
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Last edited by Stefan Kottwitz on Fri Mar 02, 2012 2:34 am, edited 1 time in total.

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frustrating formatting error

Post by Stefan Kottwitz »

Hi,

welcome to the board!

Very good for a 2nd day.

I would not use the amsart class, if you don't plan to publish it with AMS. It's a special AMS style.

Instead, I would use article (well, I prefer scrartcl) and load the amsmath package. This gives you all AMS math features without restrictions or their predefined style.

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\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
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gbux
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Re: frustrating formatting error

Post by gbux »

oh baby, you gone done fixed it! :D

hehe thanks for that, only thing, I have a title page then page one and so on, but page one wont show its page number any ideas? :?

also, while trying to do \ begin{center} and \end{center} on my tag labeled

\section*{ {\textbf{Practice Problems}}}

results in this untitled.tex:186L latex error:somethings wrong- perhaps a missed placed \item

i have center tags around other things.. just weird
Last edited by gbux on Fri Mar 02, 2012 1:33 pm, edited 1 time in total.
gbux
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frustrating formatting error

Post by gbux »

sorry forgot the code, but upon further investigation, page one is on the bottom of the title page, then the next page has no number, then the page after that is 2

oh yea and heres this

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Code, edit and compile here:
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{geometry} % See geometry.pdf to learn the layout options. There are lots.
\geometry{letterpaper} % ... or a4paper or a5paper or ...
%\geometry{landscape} % Activate for for rotated page geometry
%\usepackage[parfill]{parskip} % Activate to begin paragraphs with an empty line rather than an indent
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{epstopdf}
\usepackage{setspace}
\DeclareGraphicsRule{.tif}{png}{.png}{`convert #1 `dirname #1`/`basename #1 .tif`.png}
\huge
\title{{\Huge Chapter 2 Study Guide}}
\large
\author{gbux}
%\date{} % Activate to display a given date or no date
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\begin{titlepage}
\end{titlepage}
\doublespace
\pagestyle{myheadings}
%\subsection{}\
\begin{center}
\section*{\textbf{Theorems, Lemmas, and Axioms}}
\end{center}
\section*{\textbf{Section 2.3}}
\pagestyle{myheadings}
\textbf{Theorem 2.3.1-}
P($A^{C}$)=1-P(A)
\textbf{Theorem 2.3.2-}
P($\varnothing$)=0
 
 
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Last edited by Stefan Kottwitz on Fri Mar 02, 2012 1:28 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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frustrating formatting error

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\maketitle is sufficient. Remove \begin{titlepage}...\end{titlepage} because this ruins the desired page style, as it removed the page number since title pages commonly don't have page numbers. Then also the second page would be numbered.

Furthermore,

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Code, edit and compile here:
\begin{center}
\section*{\textbf{Theorems, Lemmas, and Axioms}}
\end{center}
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is bad because your sections are usually left aligned, not centered. I suggest make it consistently, remove the center environment. This would also not be a suitable way for getting centered headings.

You also don't need \textbf within a \section argument, as section headings are already bold. Generally, a good LaTeX document doesn't need \textbf and similar direct font commands within the text. Such commands are used for defining style macros in the preamble.

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