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LaTeX preamble and associated scripts
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README

LaTeX Preamble

Created by Mark Eli Kalderon on 2008-07-30

Introduction

LaTeX preamble and associated files. Meant to be used as a submodule of a Git repository. The file, preamble.tex, needs to be included in the LaTeX document under version control. See the provided template. For more information about keeping your LaTeX preamble in a Git submodule see this blog post.

LaTeX Template

%!TEX TS-program = xelatex 
%!TEX TS-options = -synctex=1 -output-driver="xdvipdfmx -q -E"
%!TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
%
%  my_title
%
%  Created by my_name on date.
%  Copyright (c) year. All rights reserved.
%

\documentclass[12pt]{article} 

% Definitions
\newcommand\mykeywords{} 
\newcommand\myauthor{} 
\newcommand\mytitle{}
\newcommand\mybib{}

\include{preamble/preamble.tex}

%%% BEGIN DOCUMENT
\begin{document}

% Title Page
\maketitle
% \begin{abstract} % optional
% \noindent
% \end{abstract} 
\vskip 2em \hrule height 0.4pt \vskip 2em
% \epigraph{text of epigraph}{\textsc{author of epigraph}} % optional; make sure to uncomment \usepackage{epigraph}

% Layout Settings
\setlength{\parindent}{1em}

% Main Content



% Bibligography
\bibliographystyle{plainnat} 
\bibliography{\mybib} 

\end{document}

License

The files:

  • preamble.tex
  • README.markdown

are written by Mark Eli Kalderon eli@markelikalderon.com and are dedicated to the Public Domain.

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% Packages
\usepackage{geometry} \geometry{a4paper} 
\usepackage{url}
\usepackage{txfonts}
\usepackage{color}
\definecolor{gray}{rgb}{0.459,0.438,0.471}
% \usepackage{setspace}
% \doublespace % Uncomment for doublespacing if necessary
% \usepackage{epigraph} % optional
 
% XeTeX
\usepackage[cm-default]{fontspec}
\usepackage{xltxtra,xunicode}
\defaultfontfeatures{Scale=MatchLowercase,Mapping=tex-text}
\setmainfont{Hoefler Text}
\setsansfont{Gill Sans}
\setmonofont{Inconsolata}
 
% Section Formatting
\usepackage[]{titlesec}
\titleformat{\section}[hang]{\fontsize{14}{14}\scshape}{\S{\thesection}}{.5em}{}{}
\titleformat{\subsection}[hang]{\fontsize{12}{12}\scshape}{\S{\thesubsection}}{.5em}{}{}
\titleformat{\subsubsection}[hang]{\fontsize{12}{12}\scshape}{\S{\thesubsubsection}}{.5em}{}{}
 
% Headers and Footers
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\pagenumbering{arabic}
\lhead{\thepage}
\chead{}
\rhead{\itshape{\nouppercase{\leftmark}}}
 
% TODO List
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{index} % use index package to create indices
\newindex{todo}{tod}{tnd}{TODO List} % start todo list
\newindex{fixme}{fix}{fnd}{FIXME List} % start fixme list
\newcommand{\todo}[1]{\textcolor{blue}{TODO: #1}\index[todo]{#1}} % macro for todo entries
\newcommand{\fixme}[1]{\textcolor{red}{FIXME: #1}\index[fixme]{#1}} % macro for fixme entries
 
% Bibliography
\usepackage[round]{natbib} 
 
% Title Information
\title{\mytitle} % For thanks comment this line and uncomment the line below
%\title{\mytitle\thanks{}}% 
\author{\myauthor} 
% \date{} % Leave blank for no date, comment out for most recent date
 
% PDF Stuff
\usepackage[plainpages=false, pdfpagelabels, bookmarksnumbered, backref, pdftitle={\mytitle}, pagebackref, pdfauthor={\myauthor}, pdfkeywords={\mykeywords}, xetex, dvipdfmx, colorlinks=true, citecolor=gray, linkcolor=gray, urlcolor=gray]{hyperref}