CommunityData:TeX

In order to write LaTeX documents, there are two main options. The first is to do everything in Overleaf. The second option, which is explained in this document, is to install software on your local machine which will compile LaTeX documents. This document explains how to use our lab-created templates. Using other templates may require other steps.

Debian/Ubuntu Installation Instructions
First, you'll want to install the following packages:


 * rubber
 * latexmk
 * texlive-latex-recommended
 * texlive-latex-extra
 * texlive-fonts-extra
 * texlive-fonts-recommended
 * texlive-bibtex-extra
 * moreutils
 * gawk

Also, to install Garamond grab and install the font from here through the following complicated process:


 * Download the file
 * Create ~/texmf if it does not exist yet
 * Unzip the file ugm.zip from the garamond.zip file into that ~/texmf/
 * Copy the other font files in the root directory of garamond.zip into ~/texmf/fonts/type1/
 * Run "texhash ~/texmf

Alternatively, if you want to install them system wide and have root credentials, you can also place them in /usr/local/share/texmf instead.

Using MacTeX on OSX
To install with MacTeX, you need to install the font:

wget http://tug.org/fonts/getnonfreefonts/install-getnonfreefonts texlua install-getnonfreefonts sudo getnonfreefonts-sys garamond

Getting/Installing Templates
You can find the latest version of the templates here.

To clone the public repository, you can do:

git clone git://code.communitydata.science/cdsc_tex

If you can clone them into the directory  (e.g., by doing   before running the clone command above) it will make things a bit easier.

This code includes a bunch of bash scripts which are used to quickly create a new project. If you want, you can copy the files into your path (e.g., ); this will allow you to run, for example,   to create a new knitr document from the template.

Using the Templates
There are quite a number of useful instructions sprinkled throughout the TeX source file in comments. You should pay particular attention to the comments that begin with:

% LATEX NOTE:

There are two styles that come with the package with two basic layouts that are defined. To switch between them, you just edit the following line:

\chapterstyle{cdsc-article}

The first style  is great for papers (a perhaps dated example).

The second style  is more for shorter pieces and memos (a perhaps dated example).

If you want to use the style, you might want to consider switching the  line mentioned above   to   by editing the following line.

If you want to include git commit IDs and datestamp on each page of the paper, you can uncomment the following lines which will import version control information after running make vc

\input{vc} \pagestyle{cdsc-page-git}

One problem is that that this can be tricky to get to work on Overleaf. This alternative line will just input a timestamp at the build process:

\pagestyle{cdsc-page-overleaf}

Either approach can be useful for keeping track of which version of a document somebody has.

The templates themselves use the LaTeX Memoir Class (warning that link is a ~1000 page PDF and the documentation).

Sending Patches
If you want to send patches, these currently should be sent over email to mako. Details on how to do this with the  command are online here: https://code.communitydata.science/