LaTeX Templates

http://www.LaTeXTemplates.com

by VelNZ • 13 years ago

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hahainternet2• 13 years ago

If it was up an hour ago, it certainly isn't now.

VelNZ4• 13 years ago

Just increased the VPS RAM to 1.2Gb, up again now ;) Not used to this kind of traffic...

hahainternet2• 13 years ago

Seems pretty interesting. Definitely a useful bookmark.

jlukecarlson• 13 years ago

love the site and 'What is LaTeX' and 'Why' are really informative for a beginner like myself

alexholehouse• 13 years ago

I use LaTex for a lot of my note taking (for typesetting all equations certainly). When I first started using it, I remember the absolute horror of trying to get it to work with BibTex. The learning curve is relatively steep for non-programmers (I learnt it basically in parallel with learning to code) but it's certainly one of the most valuable tools I've learned and one I continually come back to for a huge range of projects. Certainly in an academic environment it continues to surprise me that everyone isn't taught LaTex in their first year of a PhD.

a_bonobo• 13 years ago

>Certainly in an academic environment it continues to surprise me that everyone isn't taught LaTex in their first year of a PhD.

I work in a academic environment as well, and I give it another 10-20 years until it will be widespread for everything - currently my supervisors want me to write everything in .doc as they don't know LaTeX and don't want to learn (no time, which I can understand).

It's not very widespread in the life sciences, I'm afraid.

joshuagross2• 13 years ago

I still haven't figured out if the general trend is up/down for LaTeX (I have a vested interest, CTO of SpanDeX.io, but I'm not sure).

My argument against "give it another 10-20 years" is that LaTeX has already been around forever. I know people even in math, physics, and CS that never use LaTeX (in favor of Word). Which I find silly and strange, but it is what it is.

Of course, I'm hoping that new online editors like SpanDeX.io and LaTeXTemplates are the adrenaline shot that LaTeX needs for wider adoption.

pseut8• 13 years ago

Quick comment on bibtex: if you use emacs, reftex mode is essential. My current setup is:

* A directory and git repo for each paper (use your own VCS as desired)

* A separate git repo for my global bibtex file and a few heavily used .tex files (i.e. tcilatex.tex for sciword coauthors); this repo is set up as a submodule for all of the individual papers and they refer to their local version of the bibtex file.

* Really short, memorable bibkeys in the bibtex file (I first saw this recommended on I think stack overflow, but can't find a link right now). For a single author, first three characters of the name and last two characters of the year: Engle (1982) becomes Eng82; (by example...) Engle and Granger (1987) becomes EnG87; Sargent, Williams and Zha (2006) becomes SWZ06; etc.

This way I can just type most of the citations I need off the top of my head. The few I can't remember, I'll forget the year and searching by the first author via reftex takes about 5 seconds.

But, more and more for personal and not-for publication notes, I find myself just typing in the unicode and sticking with a plain text file.

edit: I'd love to hear other people's setup too, it took me a while to converge to this one and I'm sure there are better approaches.

VelNZ4• 13 years ago

I'll describe my setup for writing academic publications in LaTeX.

I use Papers which is available for Windows and OS X. Their software is quite easy to use. Papers can export your library to BibTeX, so I simply export it to the directory of the document I'm writing, include it as usual.

Now the best part, for referencing as I'm writing... Papers comes with this overlay when you press Control+M in OS X. This overlay consists of just a box to type in, you type the title of the paper or author names and it comes up with a search result, select the paper you want and press enter, you can then press enter again to add a LaTeX citation into your document or add more papers to cite multiple papers at once. Since you've exported the library to BibTeX using Papers, the citekey matches. I can't imagine how any solution could be easier than this.

ovis• 13 years ago

I learned LaTeX the summer after my undergrad, and rely on it now. Nevertheless, I'm not surprised that few others in my department, outside of my group, use it. When work needs to be shared or collaborated on, the simplest, lowest common denominator (Word or LO) wins out.

olliesaunders• 13 years ago

What’s LO?

pseut8• 13 years ago

Check out pandoc (a markdown variant).

jahewson2• 13 years ago

Some days I feel like my PhD is in LaTeX, with some computer science on the side.

kmfrk• 13 years ago

It reminds me of when people were doing PowerPoint in school. People thought spending three hours in PowerPoint meant you actually did something productive, but all that time got you were some decent-looking presentations. You still had to write the actual content itself.

Keynote is great here, because the default settings are pretty great as it is, so you have fewer ways of deluding yourself into thinking you are being productive, when you are actually just procrastinating by rearranging the furniture on the Titanic.

einhverfr4• 13 years ago

One of the occasional arguments we've had in the LedgerSMB community is whether to ditch LaTeX. The arguments in favor have to do with UTF8 support and internationalization, and the fact that 'everybody knows alternatives!'

In the end we've opted to keep it because LaTeX is so good at doing what it does, and because our dependencies can be hacked to use XeTeX (for UTF-8 input) and so we are working to ensure that XeTeX support gets back upstream instead. Additionally for documentation LaTeX source is quite easy to read compared to the alternatives like DocBook, and LaTeX is also much more expressive.

Sooner or later I expect we will factor out our invoice logic into document classes and packages and try to get that on CTAN. Maybe then it will be worth putting many of our templates on a site like this one (this site even)

fafner• 13 years ago

pdflatex can handle UTF8 as well:

    \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
    \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

einhverfr4• 13 years ago

We haven't had a lot of luck using that for utf8. Also the character set is relatively limited (can't do Korean characters for example that way).

joshuagross2• 13 years ago

I found LaTeXTemplates just a little over a year ago when I was looking for (shockingly) LaTeX templates, and it was /the only/ resource with decent usable templates (in terms of source readability and having actually-pretty templates). I'm the CTO of SpanDeX.io and we jumped on site integration shortly after we launched, because LaTeXTemplates is badass. I see many of you have hit our site after checking out LaTeXTemplates, so I'm glad some of you find the gallery & the integrations useful! Cheers.

pseut8• 13 years ago

Just a nitpick: I had to look at the source for "professional table" and was surprised to see the booktabs package used because, to quote their documentation

> You will not go far wrong if you remember two simple guidelines at all times:

> 1. Never, ever use vertical rules.

> 2. Never use double rules.

Violating half the 'nevers'!! But, more seriously, the documentation for some LaTeX packages is breathtakingly good (booktabs, amsmath, beamer, tikz, to name a few off the top of my head) and it would be really helpful if the site pointed newcomers to some of it. Especially in the case I mentioned, where the template is just a demonstration of one package.

Tyr42• 13 years ago

I keep clicking the orange text below the share buttons, trying to get more info. I think it should be a link, to the same place as the title of the template links to.

I love it and I'm going to use the code template for my next assignment.

You have anything to draw DFAs?

emillon• 13 years ago

tikz is awesome for this. I believe that DFAs are one of the examples described in the manual.

daemon13• 13 years ago

Is my understanding correct that LaTex can not handle UTF-8?

kleiba• 13 years ago

No, it isn't.

    \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

dfc• 13 years ago

Use lualatex

ninjin• 13 years ago

Or XeTeX for that matter, even though I suspect LuaTeX may very well be the future.

einhverfr4• 13 years ago

There are a number of ways to handle UTF-8 in LaTeX, but the methods are all somewhat irritating in various ways.

I haven't had a lot of luck with inputenc. My understanding is that it breaks things up into escape sequences internally which is neat but doesn't give you some things that would be nice because your default fonts don't support it.

I have used xetex a bit more and found it more helpful. However it has some other rough corners

Luatex also handles UTF8 natively. Answer is "it's complicated." And hence your solutions depend entirely on what you are trying to do.

rbkillea• 13 years ago

I find writelatex.com to be immensely useful.

primitur• 13 years ago

Wow, the Tufte template is an excellent resource .. I am going to print it and put it right alongside the real Tufte's, its that good! :)

This collection is definitely going to make me use LaTeX one of these days. Of course, I've been saying that for decades now.

swah• 13 years ago

I wonder though, where was the "real Tufte" typeset?

pessimism• 13 years ago

Permit me to be coarse for the sake of simplicity and tell you that the only LaTeX template you should spend your time and energy on is tufte-latex: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1572530.

It even has a snazzy guide for setting it up on Stack Exchange: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/6483/setting-up-a-lat....

It’s pretty much all you need, and configuring LaTeX can turn into a rabbit hole you will never get out of. Try writing your project in tufte-latex, and I am sure you’ll find that it fits the bill perfectly. I do recall something about having to install an additional package to colour the hyperlinks or something to that extent, though.

I have some old templates—even some boilerplate lying around—so you can drop me a tweet or something, if it isn’t working for you, and I’ll throw something up in a gist.

Semiapies• 13 years ago

Your suggestion seems direct and opinionated, even blunt, but I wouldn't call it "coarse". You're more polite and helpful here than a lot of people are.

foobarram• 13 years ago

For UK, I have used: http://www.gaussnewton.com/convert-word-to-latex-tex

rwhitman• 13 years ago

Is LaTeX only for academic papers?

I have a client who needs to put a large volume of brochure-ready technical specifications on both the web and rendered as attractive downloadable as PDFs, in a hopefully machine-readable format. Really curious if LaTeX is ever used as a solution in commercial applications where business users are most familiar with word - or is that the wrong application?

ppereira• 13 years ago

I once did this for a client that needed spec sheets with unit-specific test data from a database. LaTeX is great because it is easy to generate programmatically. Making nice PDFs is easy.

Exporting to HTML via htlatex is possible, but may require a lot of fine-tuning. Depending on the content, it may be easier to generate the LaTeX/PDF and HTML separately, or to generate only parts of the HTML using htlatex.

LaTeX special symbols are much easier to use than UTF8. It is easier to type -- and be sure that you have properly entered -- en-dashes, non-breaking spaces, fractions, degree symbols, directional quotation marks, and other non-keyboard characters.

InformalRelief• 13 years ago

It is certainly not only for academic papers. See [this thread](http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/40720/latex-in-indust...) for example. But it may not be suitable in the environment you describe, the learning curve could be too steep for "business users [...] familiar with word". It could work however if they only need to edit something you built and are at least capable of editing html.

e12e• 13 years ago

Always interesting to see some templates for LaTeX -- but if the "selection" made in the CV section is an indication of the overall thought that have gone into the rest of the site, I don't really see that it offer much over searching CTAN[1] and looking at the pdf-examples that are usually included with the useful packages/templates available there ?

As I've recently been looking at writing up a CV with LaTeX, I've seen quite a few rather awful templates -- and the site happens to list both examples of the worst and best I found after a quick search on CTAN...

For others that are interested -- the best resource I've found so far is actually a nice blog series on using the article-class for CV:

http://www.texdev.net/2011/11/05/writing-a-curriculum-vitae-...

Also worth a read (but cover much of the same):

http://texblog.org/2012/04/25/writing-a-cv-in-latex/

[1] http://www.ctan.org/

edit: typo, minor clarification

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