LaTeX Templates

A collection of LaTeX templates and style files, all meant for use with the LuaTeX engine.

LuaTeX is used because of its Unicode and font support (via fontspec and unicode-math), and preferred over XeTeX because of the more advanced features available in the microtype package.

git clone --recurse-submodules \
    https://github.com/sharrison5/LaTeX_Templates.git

# To use the provided Makefile
make -f LaTeX_Templates/Makefile
make -f LaTeX_Templates/Makefile pdf file=<document.tex>
make -f LaTeX_Templates/Makefile pdf [TEXTRAS="[-g|-gg] [-pv]"] file=<document.tex>
make clean[er] file=<document.tex>

# To compile the examples
cd LateX_Templates/Examples/
./make_examples.sh

The simplest way to get started is to copy one of the files from Templates/, or to have a look in Examples/.

Note that to use the templates we need to set the TEXINPUTS variable so that the classes and style files can actually be found. This is done automatically when using make. For more information see here and here.

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Alternative formats

Using a stripped down article format, it is possible to produce either .docx files via pandoc (version >= 2.11, along with pandoc-crossref), or HTML via TeX4ht.

A complete example can be found in Examples/MinimalArticle.tex. In short, the simplified preamble should be something like the following:

\documentclass[a4paper, 11pt]{article}
\usepackage{lt_minimal}
\usepackage{lt_bib}
\usepackage{lt_maths}
\newcommand*{\printAffiliations}{}

% Note \affiliation, \corresponding, and \header should be left unset
% Can only be one instance of \author (as per the original command)

It should now be possible to use make as per the following:

make pdf TEXENGINE="-pdf" file=<document.tex>  # latexmk option for pdflatex
make html file=<document.tex>
make docx file=<document.tex> bibliography=<document.bib>

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Installing extra fonts

The getnonfreefonts script can be used to install some extra fonts which cannot be bundled with TeX Live (e.g. Garamond No. 8). To do this use the following:

# From https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/47504

# Install script
curl -O http://tug.org/fonts/getnonfreefonts/install-getnonfreefonts
sudo texlua install-getnonfreefonts
rm install-getnonfreefonts

# And add fonts
getnonfreefonts --help
sudo getnonfreefonts --sys --lsfonts
sudo getnonfreefonts --sys <font>|--all

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Compressing generated PDFs

The easiest way to do this is to use Ghostscript. The command is:

gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dPDFSETTINGS=<quality> -o <output.pdf> <input.pdf>

Where the <quality> setting can be any of /screen, /ebook, /printer or /prepress. The forward slash is important!

For more information see e.g. here.

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Sam Harrison, 2018, MIT License. A full version of the license is included in the LICENSE file.

Written in Markown (CommonMark) using the live testing tool.