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https://github.com/shenzhouhong/latex-essay
A simple LaTeX essay template for humanities-oriented essays, with a biblatex setup.
https://github.com/shenzhouhong/latex-essay
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A simple LaTeX essay template for humanities-oriented essays, with a biblatex setup.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/shenzhouhong/latex-essay
- Owner: ShenZhouHong
- License: gpl-3.0
- Created: 2017-11-22T10:40:25.000Z (about 7 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2023-09-22T11:25:47.000Z (over 1 year ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-10-11T21:41:24.713Z (3 months ago)
- Topics: latex, latex-document, latex-essay-template, latex-examples, latex-template, latexmk, lualatex, tex
- Language: TeX
- Homepage:
- Size: 1.79 MB
- Stars: 31
- Watchers: 3
- Forks: 1
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE.md
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README
# Shen's LaTeX Essay Template
This is my LaTeX Essay Template. It is a best-in-class LuaLaTeX template for writing essays, dissertations, documents, and papers in the academic humanities. It includes a custom LaTeX `documentclass` called `humanize`, which is based off the `article` class, and contains all of the custom styling and configuration.
## Features
This template uses a number of advanced LaTeX features.
* Complete **PDF/A-3u Compatibility**, for Archival Grade Documents.
* **Fully Reproducible Builds** for PDF Compilation, using Makefile.
* **Custom Microtype Protrusion** Settings for Hanging Punctuation.
* **Typography Tweaks**, Adjustments, and Custom Headers and Footers.
* **BibLaTeX Integration** for Citation Management
## Quickstart
This git repository is set as a template. Simply clone the template, and begin. The root document is located at `./latex/paper.tex`. The `documentclass`, `\Title`, `\Author`, and `\Date` fields can be modified there.
To compile the document, simply run `make`:
```
make
```
## Documentation
This template is broadly organized into two directories. `sections` contain the body of the text. `figures` contains additional templates for figures, diagrams, and graphs.
```
.
├── collage-4.jpg
├── latex
│ ├── figures
│ │ └── template-*.tex
│ ├── humanize.cls
│ ├── betterprotrusionboundary.lua
│ ├── configuration.tex
│ ├── mt-protrusion.cfg
│ ├── citations.bib
│ ├── paper.pdf
│ ├── paper.tex
│ ├── paper.xmpdata
│ ├── makefile
│ └── sections
│ ├── body.tex
│ └── endpage.tex
├── LICENSE.md
├── makefile
└── README.md
```
The body of the text is meant to be included in the `./latex/sections` directory. Begin writing in `./latex/sections/body.tex`, and add additional sections within that directory (e.g. `./latex/sections/introduction.tex`).
Metadata for the PDF must be configured in the `./latex/paper.xmpdata` file. This file is read by the `pdfx` package, and information within is used to generate a valid, standard-conformant PDF/A-3u document.
The header, footer, and additional packages can be configured in `./latex/configurations.tex`. Biblatex, as well as a set of commonly used packages for mathematics and sciences are included as comments.
## Dependencies
This template depends on the following programs:
* GNU Make: Used for the makefile for compiling the PDF document
* Latexmk: Tool used with Make to run LaTeX for the correct number of runs.
* LuaLaTeX: The default typesetting engine used.
* Microtype version >= `3.0`. This template uses advanced protrusion features only available in recent versions of microtype.
## Related documentation
For an overview of how to populate biblatex `citations.bib` files, visit the
biblatex-mla manual at CTAN.
* https://www.ctan.org/pkg/biblatex-mla
## GPLv3 License
The raw template itself is licensed under the terms of the GPL (version 3). A
full copy of the license is attached in `LICENSE.md`. Naturally, any works
that you create using this template (i.e. any actual essays you write using
it) will be your own intellectual property.