appendixsectioningtitles
Currently I use \usepackage{appendix}. After command \appendix, each \section{Section Name} will be shown as "Appendix A. Section Name".
I wish to have a title page for the appendix. Specifically, I want to let the appendix begin with title "Appendix for My Paper XXX" and some description paragraphs, and then start with each section. Is it possible in LaTex?
I can only guess what is inside the files. Following a minimal working example that achieves what you want. You can redefine the layout of chapter titles as often as you want, so you can do the redefinition right after switching to the appendix. But remember, consistency is often better.
\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{appendix}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\titleformat{\chapter}[display]
{\Huge\bfseries\filcenter}
{{\fontsize{50pt}{1em}\vspace{-4.2ex}\selectfont
\textnormal{\thechapter}}}{1ex}{}[]
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\chapter{Wombat}
\begin{appendices}
\titleformat{\chapter}[display]
{\Huge\bfseries\filcenter}
{{\fontsize{50pt}{1em}\vspace{-4.2ex}\selectfont
\textnormal{Appendix~\thechapter}}}{1ex}{}[]
\chapter{Capybara}
\end{appendices}
\end{document}
This solution uses the command \shortpage to switch between \twocolumn and \onecolumn at a natural page boundary. It puts the formatted text into a savebox and dumps it all in one go. Whatever is left at the end of the page is processed using multicols.
\afterpage executes at the start of the next page, where \onecolumn will not create a new page. It also saves the remaining text from the previous page into \AP@partial.
\documentclass[conference,10pt]{IEEEtran}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{balance}
\usepackage{afterpage}
\usepackage{multicol}
\newsavebox{\shortpagebox}
\makeatletter
\newcommand{\shortpage}[1]% #1= \twocolumn text to wrap into \onecolumn page
{\par
\setbox\shortpagebox=\vbox{\strut #1\par}%
\afterpage{\onecolumn
\begin{multicols}{2}
\unvbox\AP@partial
\end{multicols}}%
\unvbox\shortpagebox
\par}
\makeatother
\IEEEoverridecommandlockouts
\title{\LARGE \bf A long title comes here about lets say whales}
\author{\IEEEauthorblockN{
Author First\IEEEauthorrefmark{1},
Author Second\IEEEauthorrefmark{1},
Author Third\IEEEauthorrefmark{1},
Author Fourth \IEEEauthorrefmark{2} and
Author Fifth \IEEEauthorrefmark{1}}
\IEEEauthorblockA{\IEEEauthorrefmark{1}A University, City, State\\
Email: \{first, second, third, fifth\}@city.edu}
\IEEEauthorblockA{\IEEEauthorrefmark{2}Another University, City, State\\
Email: fourth@city.edu}}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\thispagestyle{empty}
\pagestyle{empty}
\begin{abstract}
\blindtext
\end{abstract}
\section{Conclusion}
\Blindtext
\shortpage{\Blindtext}
\section*{Appendix}
\Blindtext
\end{document}
Best Answer
As you haven't given an MWE I don't know what you have done but as you mention
\sectionI assume you are using thearticleclass.Check the documentation (
> texdoc appendix) for details.