Compact Latex

Collection of starter sty, cls, tex, and bib examples.

Adding to MikTex

Most of these styles should be usable out of the box. The TEXMF root directory must be registered. If you are using MikTex, as I do on my Windows machine, you need to register it through the console. You only want to register the mytexmf folder.

Adding to Texlive

This is going to depend on your device specific distribution tree. A good guide can be found through the Arch Linux wiki.

There are a couple different ways you can do this.

• The first would be to copy all compact_latex directly into the texmf dir. This approach is good if you do not update often or if you are trying things.

  mkdir -p ~/texmf/tex/latex/compact_latex
  cp <path to the repo>/texmf/tex/latex/* ~/texmf/tex/latex/compact_latex/*
  

• The second would be to create symbolic link to the repo. This choice allows git pull to update the repo and update your tex path.

  mkdir -p ~/texmf/tex/latex/
  ln -s <path to the repo>/texmf/tex/latex/ ~/texmf/tex/latex/compact_latex
  

  This creates a (soft) symbolic link from the GitHub repo to compact_latex. Beware that if you move the repo, you will likely have to update where the symbolic links to. The easiest way to do this is to remove the link

  rm ~/texmf/tex/latex/compact_latex
  

  then update it with the same process as you did the first time.
• The third way is good if you want to rip only a single file for a project. Navigate to the .sty you wish to use from <path to the repo>/texmf/tex/latex/ and copy it to the current working dir of your tex project.

The best solution I currently have for Overleaf is to take the third strategy and copy it into the highest level directory of the Overleaf project.

TODO:

• Add Makefile direction
• Add Overleaf directions
• Add external links
  • List of LaTeX mathematical symbols
  • Latex Tutorial
  • A Not so Short Introduction to Latex
• Add comprehensive "Get Latex Running" section
• Add math examples
• Scour the internet for more styles
• Add poster examples
  • Better Poster
• Develop file hierarchy visual

LATEX notes

• add \tracinglostchars=3 to preamble
• draft toggle to document