LaTeX - Preamble and Examples

This small repository contains a LaTeX Preamble with settings for Computer Science handins together with a document with examples of use of all the different packages in the preamble together with a template to get a new document started quicker.

Table of Contents

• LaTeX - Preamble and Examples
  • Branches
  • Example and Template Documents
    • Templates
    • Examples
  • How to use the preamble in your project
    • Step 1: Installation
      • Local Machine
      • Git Project
      • Overleaf / ShareLaTeX
    • Step 2: Link your document to the preamble

Branches

The project is distributed across three "official" branches.

Branch	Purpose
main	Latest stable version of the preamble together with the documents
preamble-only	Latest stable version of the preamble (i.e. without the documents)
develop	Nightly builds. Expect force pushes! You may need to git reset --hard origin/develop

To compile your old documents prior to the rewrite in early 2020 you most likely need to use the old version. This one can be found on the unmaintained main-v1 branch.

Example and Template Documents

In the documents folder you can find multiple documents of the form template_*.tex and example_*.tex.. The compiled version of all files are also immediately provided, such that you can cross-compare the code and the output without having to compile yourself.

Templates

File	Purpose
template_blank.tex	Smallest template provided, useful for handins
template_dissertation.tex	Template for your dissertations
template_report.tex	Template for longer reports and papers

Examples

The examples provide explanations and examples of how to use the various packages in the preamble. They are all made with the intent to be reverse engineerable.

File	Purpose
example_article.tex	Example document for handins, reports, and dissertations
example_beamer.tex	Example document for slideshows

How to use the preamble in your project

The purpose of a preamble is to have a single source of all your LaTeX settings. This can work elegantly when the document source is on your machine.

Step 1: Installation

Before you can include the preamble in your project you first need a copy of the preamble.

Local Machine

For a simple project on your local machine you can simply clone this repository somewhere on your machine.

git clone git@github.com:SSoelvsten/LaTeX-Preamble_and_Examples.git

If you don't need the examples document, you can choose to only clone the preamble-only branch.

git clone -b preamble-only git@github.com:SSoelvsten/LaTeX-Preamble_and_Examples.git

Git Project

In a Git repository you may want to directly include this as a subrepository such that everyone has the same version and the relative path is always the same. To keep the footprint small, you only need to clone the preamble-only branch which contains the newest version of all the files in the preamble/ folder.

To do this run the following commands

git submodule add -b preamble-only git@github.com:SSoelvsten/LaTeX-Preamble_and_Examples.git preamble
git commit -m "Add preamble submodule"

This registers the subrepository in your project as a submodule and places the preamble files in the preamble/ folder.

When you then clone your Git project, then either clone it with the --recursive option or run the following two commands in an already cloned repository.

git submodules init
git submodules update

Overleaf / ShareLaTeX

In the Releases section you can find .zip files that you can directly drag and drop into your project with the whole preamble.

Step 2: Link your document to the preamble

The preamble is made in two parts, with the intent to divide the settings between the general and the localisation specific settings. This is only of value, should you write your .tex document in various languages.

• base_p1, base_p2: Packages and most settings (the second part is to be executed after localisation)
• dk/en: Settings specifically for localisation to danish (dk) or english (en**. The underlying preamble

When importing the preamble you have to only import the localised .tex file, since there's already a call to the base settings within both. How you import it depends on where you have the preamble files located compared to your document.

Case: Same folder

\documentclass[english]{article}
\input{preamble_en.tex}

Case: Relative path

\documentclass[english]{article}
\usepackage{import}
\subimport{../preamble/}{preamble_en.tex}

Case: Absolute path

On Windows

\documentclass[english]{article}
\usepackage{import}
\import{C:/GitHub/LaTeX-Preamble_and_Examples/preamble/}{preamble_en.tex}

On Unix

\documentclass[english]{article}
\usepackage{import}
\import{/home/username/Documents/LaTeX-Preamble_and_Examples/preamble/}{preamble_en.tex}

Notice, that the paths above is a bit different if you choose to only clone the preamble-only branch.