Boilerplate for LaTeX Projects
These are a good number of the things I usually end up with in LaTeX projects so I have thrown them together so I can fork this instead of starting from scratch each time.
Essentially, run make show to build and look at the PDF.
Dynamically-generated plots are in ./plots. The Makefile there controls
how they are built. If mklatex finds that some plot is missing, the rules to
create it are deferred to that Makefile from the main one.
There are also a few tools included to make editing a bit less awful. They are
generally intended to be used with Vim, but they are usable from the command
line as well. source env.sh to add them to the path. To use them from Vim,
start with -S as its last argument to have it parse Session.vim, which has
appropriate shortcuts defined.
bin/edit-in-lyx will allow editing some bit of LaTeX code in LyX. It's most
useful for graphical equation editing or manipulating more complex tables.
That is, highlighting a few lines in Vim, then pressing <leader>L (usually
\L) or <leader>l<return>will pop up LyX with those lines imported.
bin/texpreview will pop up an HTML preview of some arbitary bit of TeX. It
can be used to preview portions of the docunt in isolation. <leader>p to
access.
bin/gscholar will look up BibTeX references from Google Scholar. This one
might be easier to use interactively outside of Vim, but <leader>gX<return>
will replace the current line in vim with the first X results of that line
formatted for BibTeX.