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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:
Does anybody have experience with apa.cls?
Harry
Last edited by cautha (2008-11-24 05:43:24)
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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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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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I haven't had to use block quotes or tables yet, incidentally, so I can't really make comments
However, someone suggested that the package booktabs produces better tables, so I thought I would document that here.
Thanks again
Harry
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