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https://github.com/dustinvtran/latex-templates
A collection of LaTeX templates used for research, courses, and miscellanea.
https://github.com/dustinvtran/latex-templates
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A collection of LaTeX templates used for research, courses, and miscellanea.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/dustinvtran/latex-templates
- Owner: dustinvtran
- Created: 2014-09-27T21:13:32.000Z (almost 10 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2021-05-28T19:39:05.000Z (over 3 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-04-21T04:33:39.205Z (5 months ago)
- Topics: latex, research
- Language: TeX
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- Size: 1.59 MB
- Stars: 736
- Watchers: 20
- Forks: 154
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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README
# LaTeX
When writing a new document, I begin from one of these templates. I
have found these fundamental to my workflow.
## Setup
Your preferences may vary.
Use [`latexmk`](https://www.ctan.org/pkg/latexmk/?lang=en). It's
powerful. My day-to-day use is: 1. write text in Vim; 2. run `latexmk -C`
and `latexmk -pdf main` in the terminal; 3. ??? profit.
In terms of packages:
+ I use MacTeX.
+ I use additional LaTeX packages listed
[here](https://github.com/dustinvtran/dotfiles/tree/laptop-mac/Library/texmf/tex/latex).
+ I use mtpro2 as a default font. It is proprietary and requires
manual installation.
## Curriculum Vitae
## Papers
## Lectures
## Problem Sets
## Other Examples
I use the `minted` package for code snippets.
I'm a big fan of a custom `\draftdisclaimer` command when distributing
paper drafts to colleagues. See `papers/preamble/preamble.tex` for its
code.
Style nits:
+ Don't write the extension to filenames. It's unnecessarily explicit
and less readable: use
`\input{preamble}` instead of
`\input{preamble.tex}`, and
`\includegraphics{figures/edward_calibration}` instead of
`\includegraphics{figures/edward_calibration.pdf}`.
+ Use PDF-rendered figures, not PNG, so that the text scales with the
paper format. You can even go a step further with TiKZ to make plots
in LaTeX.
+ Use author names in your citation style, not numbers: `(MacKay,
1992)` instead of `[12]`. Numbers save space but make it impossible
to know what the citation is without tediously crawling
back-and-forth. With author names, the citation is part of the
sentence, helping substantiate its statement:
> Weakly informative priors such as the Cauchy are often preferred
> for robustness as they concentrate less probability at the mean
> thanks to heavier tails (Gelman et al., 2006).
+ For notation, take advantage of
[_emphasis_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emphasis_(typography)),
not just Greek alphabet for extra symbols. For example, plain can
represent a scalar and boldface (`\mathbf`) can represent a matrix
or vector. I often leave capital letters to represent the event
space such as `a\in A` or constants: number of datapoints `N`.
I made a
[rant on Twitter in May 2021](https://twitter.com/dustinvtran/status/1398129705660805121).
Other nits and style tips are noted there.