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The basic formatting of a document is discussed in detail in Hour 3. Some advanced formatting, including default as well as user-defined settings, are discussed in this Hour, like foot note, multiple columns, mini page, marginal note, modified sectional unit, etc.
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The default printing styles of sectional units can be altered by redefining some commands, such as \chaptername, \thechapter, \thesection, \thesubsection, and \thesubsubsection.
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The default starting of numbering of a sectional unit from unity can be altered to start from the intermediate number n+1 by inserting \setcounter{ asec } { n }, where asec is the name of the sectional unit like chapter or section.
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The multicols environment, defined in the multicol package, can be used for producing any number of columns (up to ten) even on a single-column page.
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The minipage environment can be used for dividing a portion of a page into a number of width-wise parts, usually for presenting related materials side-by-side, e.g., two tables for comparison purpose, or a picture and its description.
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Like other numbered items, a foot note generated through \footnote{ } can also be labeled and referred using \label{ } and \ref{ }, respectively.
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LaTeX provides \footnotemark and \footnotetext{ } for generating foot notes in mini pages, similar to those in main pages generated through \footnote{ }.
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Datta, D. (2017). Formatting Texts II. In: LaTeX in 24 Hours. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47831-9_4
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