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book templateThis is a more elaborate template for a book. It has
\frontmatter, \mainmatter, and \backmatter to
control the typography of the three main areas of a book
(see \frontmatter & \mainmatter & \backmatter). The book has a
bibliography and an index.
Notable is that it uses \include and \includeonly
(see Splitting the input). While you are working on a chapter you
can comment out all the other chapter entries from the argument to
\includeonly. That will speed up compilation without losing any
information such as cross-references. (Material that does not need to
come on a new page is brought in with \input instead of
\include. You don’t get the cross-reference benefit this way.)
\documentclass[titlepage]{book}
\usepackage{makeidx}\makeindex
\title{Book Class Template}
\author{Alex Author}
\includeonly{%
frontcover,
preface,
chap1,
...
}
\begin{document}
\frontmatter
\include{frontcover}
% maybe comment out while drafting:
\maketitle \input{dedication} \input{copyright}
\tableofcontents
\include{preface}
\mainmatter
\include{chap1}
...
\appendix
\include{appena}
...
\backmatter
\bibliographystyle{apalike}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Bibliography}
\bibliography
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Index}
\printindex
\include{backcover}
\end{document}