LaTeX Templates

A collection of personal LaTeX templates, used for rewriting notes, writing homework solutions, and writing lab reports.

Packages

The base *.tex files include as few packages as possible, with the idea that each class will require a different set of packages. The included packages are the only packages needed to compile the base document.

Notes

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• Boxed and formatted expressions using mdframed

  Colored boxes for highlighting in question, answer, and result environments

• Automatic lecture numbering, with optional skips

  \lecture \lecture[3] \lecture → Lecture #1 Lecture #3 Lecture #4

• Seperate .tex files per lecture using standalone

  For modularity, each lecture occupies its own .tex file which is imported into the main Notes.tex file. All packages and defined functions/environments are imported from Notes.tex into the individual lecture files, so each lecture's file is very clean and easy to navigate.

  For some editors (vim+vimtex), compiling the lecture files is functionally equivalent to compiling the whole Notes.tex file. However, I haven't been able to replicate this in Texmaker where a preview is only rendered correctly when compiling from Notes.tex.

  An included newlec.sh script automates the process of adding a new lecture. A new lecture file is created and appropriately imported in the Notes.tex file. I use this script with keybindings for each class, so I can begin editing a new lecture instantly. With this, the minimal setup to start a new class is only

  $ cp -r Notes CLASS && cd CLASS
  $ ./newlec.sh
  

Homework

• Page-dependent fancyhdr header/footer

  Header/footer can change depending on page using ifthenelse, defaults to a more detailed header on the first page and simpler header on the following pages.

• Automatic problem numbering, with optional skips

  \problem \problem[3] \problem → Problem 1 Problem 3 Problem 4

• Automatic part numbering, with optional skips

  Setting \parttype to \alph,

  \ppart \ppart[3] \ppart → Part a Part c Part d

• question environment

  Italic gray text indented by a vertical line. Used if it is helpful to restate a question.

Labs

Labs unfortunately mostly change format per professor. This means a 'common ancestor' template is very bare-bones, with the specific requirements added later on a class-by-class basis.