latex-napkin

Powered by Cookiecutter, latex-napkin is a LaTeX template with a custom style inspired by the nice book An infinitly large napkin by Evan Chen and with a few extra features that I find useful.

Features

• A .latexmkrc file that automatically compiles the document with latexmk and, if needed, with pythontex.
• Custom document title, section styles and headers.
• Useful math environments and macros.

Usage

To use this template, you need to have Python and Cookiecutter installed. Refer to the Cookiecutter documentation for more information.

Then, run the following command:

cookiecutter gh:mariovagomarzal/latex-napkin

You will be prompted to enter a few values:

  [1/11] project_slug (latex-napkin):
  [2/11] author (Your Name):
  [3/11] title (Title):
  [4/11] date (\today):
  [5/11] Select documentclass
    1 - article
    2 - report
    3 - book
    Choose from [1/2/3] (1):
  [6/11] documentoptions (a4paper, 11pt):
  [7/11] Select language
    1 - english
    2 - spanish
    3 - catalan
    Choose from [1/2/3] (1):
  [8/11] Select math_numeration
    1 - section
    2 - chapter
    3 - plain
    Choose from [1/2/3] (1):
  [9/11] Select twoside
    1 - True
    2 - False
    Choose from [1/2] (1):
  [10/11] Select minted
    1 - True
    2 - False
    Choose from [1/2] (1):
  [11/11] Select pythontex
    1 - True
    2 - False
    Choose from [1/2] (1):

The template will be downloaded and the files will be generated in the current directory with the following structure:

latex-napkin/
├── .gitignore
├── .latexmkrc
├── README.md
├── main.tex
├── requirements.txt
└── tex
    ├── macros.tex
    └── preamble.tex

Then, you can compile the document with latexmk:

latexmk main.tex

Template options

• project_slug: The name of the directory where the files will be generated.
• author: The author of the document.
• title: The title of the document.
• date: The date of the document.
• documentclass: The document class. It can be article, report or book.
• documentoptions: The options of the document class.
• language: The language of the document. It can be english, spanish or catalan.
• math_numeration: The numeration of the math environments. It can be section, chapter or plain.
• twoside: Whether the document is twoside or oneside.
• minted: Whether the document uses minted or not.
• pythontex: Whether the document uses pythontex or not.

License

This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT license by Mario Vago Marzal.