mparticle and mpreport

The mparticle and mpreport LaTeX document classes are attempts at a more modern layout for articles and reports. See my dissertation or my master’s thesis for examples of documents formatted with mpreport.

The classes can be used as a direct replacement for the standard article and report classes. There are, however, some minor differences:

• mparticle and mpreport use A4 as default page format; if you want a different page format, add the appropriate option (e.g., letterpaper or a5paper).

• mparticle and mpreport place figure and table captions in the margin. To ensure the correct placement, \caption{} must be placed before the figure or table proper, for example:

  \begin{table}[!ht]
    \caption{This is the table caption}
    \begin{tabular}{|l|l|}
      .
      .
      .
    \end{tabular}
    \label{tab:terms}
  \end{table}
  

• mparticle and mpreport provide a \subtitle{} macro for specifying a subtitle.

• mpreport automatically loads the graphicx package, i.e., it is not necessary to specify \usepackage{graphicx}.

Source and Feedback

The source of this package is maintained at https://github.com/mxpiotrowski/mpreport. This site also allows you file issues in case you encounter problems with the package.

License

Copyright © 2020 by Michael Piotrowski

This package may be distributed under the terms of the LaTeX Project Public License, as described in lppl.txt in the base LaTeX distribution. Either version 1.3 or, at your option, any later version.