[Tex/LaTex] LaTeX template for typesetting a novel

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I'd like to use LaTeX to typeset a novel. Could you recommend me any template?

What I mean is a template (some .tex file) where I can include my chapterN.tex files (mainly plain text) and get a pretty good design with zero work 🙂

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Try the memoir class. Give the comprehensive manual a close review.

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[Tex/LaTex] How to generate a LaTeX template for a small college course

Well in my opinion such templates are only a source of problems. template.tex contains a lot code which is probably unnecessary or are simple design decisions. This makes it difficult for students to understand which package/what code is responsible for which effect and to make a minimal example when he/she runs into a problem.

Imho a template should only load babel, inputenc (or selinput), fontenc, microtype, perhaps amsmath, perhaps hyperref (without specific options), perhaps scrpage2 (ditto). Every other information should go in small examples: example-bibliography, example-tabulars, example-colorlinks etc. This will force the students to build their document in steps and so help them to understand the structure. It will also give them a collection of minimal examples they can use for tests (and questions).

Beside this here some problems in template.tex:

\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}: Not a good idea, better use one the of options of scrartcl.
\usepackage{geometry} /\newgeometry{margin=0.1cm}: This will overwrite the settings of typearea, so should be considered carefully. (And it shouldn't be done only for the titlepage).
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc} is missing.
backend=bibtex: Why not biber?

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