[Tex/LaTex] Best LaTeX Templates for books and lecture notes

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I have written and submitted a lectures series in mathematics in arXiv, arXiv:1211.3404. Its format is book, but I have some difficulties with it. For example for page numbering, indexing, etc. I am going to extend my lecture notes in the form of a relatively long book, so I need to choose a better template for my work.

I am looking for an easy to use and perfect book template in Latex. I need a template that allows indexing, adding appendices, different page numbering for introduction and content, different numbering for exercises.

It is also favorable if the template (preferably) does not use so many user packages.

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I use my own easy template for the memoir class for my lecture notes. For more easy templates, take a look at a painless template for the memoir class.

You can see some of my lectures notes in algebra.

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[Tex/LaTex] Splitting one volume into two

I will describe a way to go with the book class using etoc. The code sample is minimal but you should be able to transfer the relevant parts to your real use case.

see update below in response to question asked in comment

Here are the two tables of contents (with correct hyperlinks):

Code:

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{etoc}

\newcommand{\TableOfContents}{%
 \centerline{\LARGE\scshape Thesis Contents}
 \vspace{0.5cm}
 \markboth{\MakeUppercase\contentsname}{\MakeUppercase\contentsname}
 \phantomsection
 \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Thesis contents}
 \etocsettagdepth {VolumeOne}{all}
 \etocsettagdepth {VolumeTwo}{none}
 \etocsettocstyle {\section*{Volume One}}{\bigskip}
 \tableofcontents
 \etocsettagdepth {VolumeOne}{none}
 \etocsettagdepth {VolumeTwo}{all}
 \etocsettocstyle {\section*{Volume Two}}{\cleardoublepage}
 \tableofcontents
}


\begin{document}
\etocdepthtag.toc {VolumeOne}

\frontmatter
\vspace*{1cm}
\begin{center}
\huge\bfseries Volume One:\\ Oscillation Theory and Beyond
\end{center}
\vspace{2cm}
\TableOfContents

\mainmatter
\chapter{Foo}
\blindtext
\chapter{Bar}
\blindtext

\backmatter 
\etocdepthtag.toc {VolumeTwo}

\vspace*{1cm}
\begin{center}
\huge\bfseries Volume Two:\\ Appendices
\end{center}
\vspace{2cm}
\TableOfContents

\chapter{Appendix}
\blindtext
\chapter{Another appendix}
\blindtext

\end{document}

Here is now a variant where the TOC in the Volume Two only lists the appendices. Also the page numbering is restarted for Volume Two.

split in two C

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{etoc}

\newcommand{\TableOfContents}{%
 \centerline{\LARGE\scshape Thesis Contents}
 \vspace{0.5cm}
 \markboth{\MakeUppercase\contentsname}{\MakeUppercase\contentsname}
 \phantomsection
 \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Thesis contents}
 \etocsettagdepth {VolumeOne}{all}
 \etocsettagdepth {VolumeTwo}{none}
 \etocsettocstyle {\section*{Volume One}}{\bigskip}
 \tableofcontents
 \etocsettagdepth {VolumeOne}{none}
 \etocsettagdepth {VolumeTwo}{all}
 \etocsettocstyle {\section*{Volume Two}}{\cleardoublepage}
 \tableofcontents
}


\begin{document}
\etocdepthtag.toc {VolumeOne}

\frontmatter
\vspace*{1cm}
\begin{center}
\huge\bfseries Volume One:\\ Oscillation Theory and Beyond
\end{center}
\vspace{2cm}
\TableOfContents

\mainmatter
\chapter{Foo}
\blindtext
\chapter{Bar}
\blindtext

\mainmatter % to restart page numbering
\backmatter 
\etocdepthtag.toc {VolumeTwo}

\vspace*{1cm}
\begin{center}
\huge\bfseries Volume Two:\\ Appendices
\end{center}
\vspace{2cm}
\etocsettagdepth {VolumeOne}{none}
\etocsettagdepth {VolumeTwo}{all}
\etocsettocstyle {\section*{\contentsname}\phantomsection
                  \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{\contentsname}}
                 {\cleardoublepage}
 \markboth{\MakeUppercase\contentsname}{\MakeUppercase\contentsname}
\tableofcontents

\chapter{Appendix}
\blindtext
\chapter{Another appendix}
\blindtext

\end{document}

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