Latex starter document

latex-starter.md

Latex starter document

A neat document to use each time you're about to start writing a new LaTeX document.

template.tex

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\pdfoutput=1

%%
%% This huge block of usepackages does a lot of things.
%% It makes the text pritty on screens and ensures that you can use some common
%% tools.
%%

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
% change language to whatever you write in
\usepackage[swedish]{babel}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage{listings}
\usepackage{units}
\usepackage{icomma}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{multicol,caption}
\usepackage{bbm}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{xfrac}
\newcommand{\N}{\ensuremath{\mathbbm{N}}}
\newcommand{\Z}{\ensuremath{\mathbbm{Z}}}
\newcommand{\Q}{\ensuremath{\mathbbm{Q}}}
\newcommand{\R}{\ensuremath{\mathbbm{R}}}
\newcommand{\C}{\ensuremath{\mathbbm{C}}}
\newcommand{\rd}{\ensuremath{\mathrm{d}}}
\newcommand{\id}{\ensuremath{\,\rd}}

%  if you want a page header/footer, use this!
% \usepackage{fancyhdr}
% \pagestyle{fancy}
% \lhead{Left in the header}
% \rhead{Right in the header: \today}

% This creates a nice figure environment that puts the image where you use it,
% and not where LaTeX wants it to be.
\newenvironment{Figure}
  {\par\medskip\noindent\minipage{\linewidth}}
  {\endminipage\par\medskip}

% neat horizontal line
\newcommand{\HRule}{\rule{\linewidth}{0.5mm}}

\begin{document}

\title{The title}
\author{The author}
\date{\today}

%%
%% Use one of these title methods
%%
% \maketitle % simple latex title
\input{./titlepage.tex} % pretty title page, see titlepage.tex in this gist

% empty page after title page, ignore this page in the numbering
\newpage\null\thispagestyle{empty}\pagenumbering{gobble}\newpage

\newpage\pagenumbering{arabic} % Arabic page numbers (and reset to 1)

% optional abstract!
\begin{abstract}
  This is an abstract.
\end{abstract}

\newpage

% fairly self-explenatory
\tableofcontents

\newpage

\section{First section}

This is the first paragraph, see \emph{figure \ref{fig:figureref}}.

\subsection{The first subsection}

First paragraph of the first subsection.

% the neat figure
\begin{Figure}
  % center it!
  \centering
    % adjust width as you like, include image from optional folder
    \includegraphics[width=0.7\linewidth]{./images/myimg.png}
    % caption! change the label ref to what you want
    \captionof{figure}{\emph{Figure text..}\label{fig:figureref}}
\end{Figure}

\section*{This section has no number}

Also, it is ignored by the table of contents.

% optional bibliography
\begin{thebibliography}{99}

\end{thebibliography}

\end{document}

titlepage.tex

\begin{titlepage}
\begin{center}

% Pre-title
\textsc{\Large Pre title}\\[0.5cm]

% Title
\HRule \\[0.4cm]
{ \huge \bfseries Write a title here \\[0.4cm] }

\HRule \\[1.5cm]

% Author and supervisor
\begin{minipage}{0.4\textwidth}
\begin{flushleft} \large
% Author
Name\\
\emph{email@example.com}
\end{flushleft}
\end{minipage}
\begin{minipage}{0.4\textwidth}
\begin{flushright} \large
% supervisor
Supervisor\\
Supervisor name
\emph{supervisor@example.com}
\end{flushright}
\end{minipage}

\vfill

% Bottom of the page
{\large \today}

\end{center}
\end{titlepage}