The LaTeX Template Generator

This talk presents the idea behing the "LaTeX Template Generator" (LTG). The LTG generates LaTeX templates based on "best practices" in package usage. It is available at https://github.com/latextemplates/generator-latex-template.

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1. The LaTeX Template Generator Dr. Oliver Kopp JabRef Maintainer https://github.com/koppor/
2. 2 About Me  LaTeX since beginning of 2000  JabRef developer since 2011  Maintainer of JabRef  Maintainer of LaTeX templates
3. 3 Scientific Thesis Template http://latextemplates.github.io/scientific-thesis-template/
4. 4 LNCS Template https://latextemplates.github.io/LNCS/
5. 5 IEEE https://latextemplates.github.io/IEEE/
6. 6 University of Stuttgart Dissertation Template
7. 7 University of Applied Sciences Esslingen
8. 8 Template Confusion https://github.com/johannesbottcher/templateConfusion
9. 9 Creative CV Template
10. 10 What about minimal working examples for each package?
11. 11 Proposed Solution
12. 12 Roles and Artifacts of Proposed Solution microtype hyperref cmap selnolig babel hypcap LNCS IEEE Master Thesis Dissertation main.tex README.md .latexmkrc .gitignore package expert tooling expert template expert content expert latexmk
13. 14 User Experience
14. 15 Installation  Install NodeJS  Windows with Chocolatey: choco install nodejs  npm install -g yo generator-latex-template
15. 16 User experience: Start generator
16. 17 User experience: Choice of LaTeX Compiler
17. 18 User experience: Choice of BibTeX tool
18. 19 User experience: Document language
19. 20 User experience: Use Cleveref?
20. 21 User experience: File generation
21. 22 LaTeX Compilation
22. 23 Implementation How to Contriute?
23. 24 Technical Details: Use Yeoman As Template Generator Context and Problem Statement We want to generate the template automatically Considered Options  Yeoman - proposed by @miwurster. Currently in use in different projects  Andi-Lo/generator-latex  LeoColomb/generator-latex  Jinja2 - recommended by @mfa, also because of http://eosrei.net/articles/2015/11/latex-templates-python-and-jinja2-generate-pdfs  Cheetah - recommended at tex.stackexchange.com/q/41875/9075  Apache Velocity - recommended by http://tex-talk.net/2012/03/generating-latex-code- with-a-template-engine  lualatex - recommended by @Stefan-Kottwitz at http://tex- talk.net/2012/03/generating-latex-code-with-a-template-engine/#comment-231 Decision Outcome Chosen option: “Yeoman”, because it seems to be the most easy to use generator.
24. 25 Templates for README.md README.en.md README.de.md Template syntax: https://ejs.co/
25. 26 Template for main.tex
26. 27 Template: cleveref.en.preamble.tex
27. 28 Template: figure.en.example.tex
28. 29 Questions: Listed in index.js
29. 30 Result: main.tex
30. 31 Summary and Outlook
31. 32 Roles and Artifacts of Proposed Solution microtype hyperref cmap selnolig babel hypcap LNCS IEEE Master Thesis Dissertation main.tex README.md .latexmkrc .gitignore package expert tooling expert template expert content expert latexmk
32. 33 Summary and Outlook https://github.com/latextemplates/generator-latex-template | https://github.com/koppor/
33. 34 Summary and Outlook https://github.com/latextemplates/generator-latex-template | https://github.com/koppor/ • First MVP • Release on npm • Support • LNCS • IEEE • LNI • Dissertation • Scientific Thesis Template