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The {article} tag marks questions related to the article standard class and classes which are intended to act as a replacement for it.

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Regarding the `book`, `report`, and `article` document classes: what are the main differences?

What are the main differences between the book, report, and article document classes? I am interested in the following: visual differences in the final document; differences in the way the document ...
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\subtitle doesn't work in article document class

I'm relatively new to TeX but until now I used mostly the beamer class. There I did this: \documentclass{beamer} \title{title} \subtitle{subtitle} \author{name} \date{\today} \begin{document} ...
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Add affiliations to the authors' name in the article class

I am using the \documentclass{article} to write an article. how can I add the affiliation to the author's name like the following picture? And, this document class has a date under the names. Can I ...
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How can I get \maketitle to create a separate title page with the article class?

I am working on a maths assignment and new to using LaTeX. I have written the assignment up, but I would like the title page to be its own page. Currently my title page is a few lines generated by \...
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What does the titlepage environment do and what are its benefits?

I'm speaking about the article document class only, because report and book deal with titles in a different way. Obviously, the titlepage environment triggers a new page after it, and it resets the ...
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What is the name of LaTeX's default style and why was it chosen for LaTeX?

LaTeX has a unique style compared to other document formatting applications and style guides. What is the name of this and why was it chosen for LaTeX? Why was the particular Computer Modern font ...
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What is the advantage of using minimal over article when creating a standalone graphic?

What is the advantage of using minimal document class over article document class when creating a standalone graphic? Bonus question: Before I have time to make a test by myself, is there anybody ...
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Indent a code listing in LaTeX

For a little LaTeX document I am writing I would like to insert source code fields (in SQL) into my paper. I found out that I can use the listings package for this, which works well so far: \...
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Address and email in article class

How can I typeset email and address at the end of text (after References) in the article class just like in the amsart class? Does anyone know a macro for doing this?
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What's the benefit of using {standalone} instead of {article}?

When I change article to standalone the result shows no difference except that the edge around the picture turning gray. Then what's the benefit of using {standalone} compared to {article}? \...
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Creating Multiple Choice Questions Without using 'Exam' Class

I am working on a document with class article and I want to have multiple choice questions in it. Is this hard enough to do that I should change it to exam class? If not, how do I accomplish this? ...
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Left align abstract, title and authors

I would like to re-align my title, authors and abstract to the left of the document. The example in this question is basically the output I want, but I do not want to use the memoir environment. MWE: ...
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Redefining commands in LaTeX (\section in particular)

A few days ago I asked a question about how to redefine the \section command to be able to write content just after the head of the section with no line breaking: Redefining \section command (I ...
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Using \maketitle twice in the same article

I need to write a single, short PDF file that contains two distinct parts. I don't want to mess with PDF joins and hacks, as I need both parts to share page numbers, citations, etc. However, I want ...
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How to know the column width of a two column article?

I'm writing an article with 2 columns. If my document is this: \documentclass[10pt,a4paper, twocolumn]{article} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[ left=2.00cm, right=2....
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