Note: This package was previously called jamhomework.

Handwritten notes and homework can get lost or ruined, which makes it hard to use them as a reference months or years after they were written. LaTeX is a wonderful tool for typesetting documents—especially when a lot of math is involved—but none of the existing templates were up to my standards. Hence, JAMwork was born! JAMwork is a LaTeX Template for homework and note taking, with predefined macros for common academic needs.

For example,

\documentclass{jamwork}

\author{My Name}
\email{myemail@school.edu}
\course{Intro to Proofs}
\assignment{Homework Set No.\ 1}
\date{September 1}

\begin{document}

\maketitle

...

will fill in your homework details, whereas

\begin{problem}[10 pts.]
Prove the Pythagorean theorem.
\end{problem}

will create a nicely formatted problem statement box.

Installation

As described in the "Where to put files from packages" table here, you need to place the JAMwork directory under tex/latex/base, which itself should be under texmf/ or texmf-local/. On my Mac with MacTeX, this involves first executing

cd ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex/base

in the terminal and then

git clone https://github.com/jordan-melendez/jamwork.git

This should let LaTeX should know about JAMwork.

Contributing

Feel free to submit a pull request or raise an issue!

What's with the name?

JAM happens to be my initials, and that's about all there is to it.