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#1 2008-11-22 22:27:35

cautha
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LaTeX strikes again: possible to modify apa.cls? (Solved)

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The math assignment worked out beautifully; I'm determined to figure this out.

The following is the title page of an essay I'm writing:

\documentclass[man,12pt,nobf]{apa}
\pdfpagewidth 8.5in
\pdfpageheight 11in 
\title{Borderline Personality Disorder: Key Features and Their Impact on Social \& Emotional Well-Being}
\author{Name}
\rightheader{Impact of Borderline Personality Disorder}
\shorttitle{Borderline Personality Disorder}
\affiliation{Instructor: \\ \today}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\end{document}

There are a couple things about it I need to change, somehow. The output needs to look as close to this file as possible. However, this is what I've got at the moment:

http://ifile.it/z1gnc4f

Does anybody have experience with apa.cls?

Harry

Last edited by cautha (2008-11-24 05:43:24)

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#2 2008-11-23 14:42:23

bt
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Re: LaTeX strikes again: possible to modify apa.cls? (Solved)

My simple solutions:
THIS IS IN THE PREAMBLE
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestype{fancy}
\lhead{}
\chead{}
\rhead{APA Sample \hspace{xxpt]\thepage}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}

Page 5 indentations. I think there are verb packages or quote packages for the 1/2 inch ident. Or you can use the pgf package by putting \usepackage{tikz} in the preamble and then running the following in the body of the report:
\hspace*{.5in} \begin{tikzpicture}
\node at (0,0) [text width=xxin, text ragged]{text with proper spacing};
\end{tikzpicture}

Last page: try eqparbox. I find it solves a lot of table problems.

Hope this helps.

Last edited by bt (2008-11-23 18:31:26)

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#3 2008-11-24 04:36:35

cautha
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From: Kingston, Ontario
Registered: 2008-06-02
Posts: 115
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Re: LaTeX strikes again: possible to modify apa.cls? (Solved)

Not sure about your other suggestions, because I haven't gotten there yet, but I'm pretty sure that calling fancyhdr by itself screws with the setup apa.cls already has built-in. I'm thinking about ditching apa.cls, and just doing something like this, manually:

\documentclass[letterpaper,12pt]{report}
\usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\fancyhead[R]{Borderline Personality Disorder\hspace{1em}\thepage}
\fancyfoot{}
\usepackage{setspace}
\begin{document}
\vspace*{\fill}
\doublespacing
\begin{center}
Borderline Personality Disorder: Key Features and Their Impact on\\
the Social \& Emotional Well-Being of Patients and Others\\
Name\\ 
Course\\ 
Instructor: Name\\ 
\today \\
\end{center}
\vspace*{\fill}
\end{document}

If I do this instead of relying on apa.cls to do it for me, how would I achieve a running head in the necessary spot? (see the sample PDF)

Harry

EDIT: I'm actually going to make a new thread about the macro stuff I was talking about in my edits here; I'll link it in a sec. I'm going to mark this one as (Solved), because although I haven't had a chance to try everything that was suggested, my original problem is moot, since I'm not using apa.cls any more. When I get further with typesetting the essay, I'll come back here and make comments.

Last edited by cautha (2008-11-24 05:42:51)

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#4 2008-12-08 13:17:27

cautha
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From: Kingston, Ontario
Registered: 2008-06-02
Posts: 115
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Re: LaTeX strikes again: possible to modify apa.cls? (Solved)

I haven't had to use block quotes or tables yet, incidentally, so I can't really make comments hmm

However, someone suggested that the package booktabs produces better tables, so I thought I would document that here.

Thanks again smile

Harry

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