HES-SO//Master Lab report LaTeX template

A LaTeX template for HES-SO//Master Computer Science Deepening Project (PA)

Authors:

Sylvain Julmy sylvain.julmy@master.hes-so.ch
Marc Demierre marc.demierre@master.hes-so.ch

Features

Nice title page with school logos and lab info
Header and footer with lab information
Code highlighting with minted
Nice default typography settings (by default the template uses lmodern fonts, but you can easily change the fonts in the preamble if needed)

Dependencies and setup

Dependencies

A recent LaTeX distribution
Biblatex with biber backend
Python 2.7+ or 3+ and pygments (for the minted code highlighting package)

Setup on OSX

Install a LaTeX distribution, like MacTex (https://tug.org/mactex/). Make sure the bin directory is in your PATH.
Upgrade your LaTeX distribution. With MacTex, this can be done using the built-in "TeXLive Utility" software.
Python is provided by default on OSX (we recommend using homebrew to get the latest version though), you just need to install the pygments package:
```
 pip install pygments
```

Setup on Windows

Install a LaTeX distribution, like MiKTeX (http://miktex.org/). Make sure the bin directory is in your PATH.
Install the biber package
Install Python from https://www.python.org/downloads/windows/. Be sure to check the PATH option in the installer.
Install the pygments package
```
 pip install pygments
```

Setup on Linux

If you use Linux, you're used to not having precise instructions. Just do it!

More seriously, the only pain point is probably the old package versions if you use an inferior distribution whose repository has an old version of TeXLive. We recommend to install TexLive manually in this case, or to use Arch.

For Archlinux :

    yaourt -S texlive-bin
    yaourt -S texlive-core
    yaourt -S texlive-latexextra
    yaourt -S texlive-bibtexextra

For Ubuntu 12.04+ users, this repository might be useful:

https://github.com/scottkosty/install-tl-ubuntu/

Getting started

General steps

Install the dependencies (see previous section)
Clone this repository, go to the directory where you want to create a report and use the getreport.py script to generate it.
Write your report
Build the PDF (see below)

Building using the command line

A Makefile is provided so you can just use make to build the PDF. A make clean command will delete all the pdflatex build files exept the pdf and the make clean_all will delete all of them.

Building using the Texmaker IDE

Use this configuration for the quick build:

pdflatex -shell-escape -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode %.tex|pdflatex -shell-escape -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode %.tex

Contributing

Do not hesitate to make a pull request if you have useful additions/corrections for this template. You can also post an issue if you find a bug or want to suggest an improvement.

The followin contributions would be welcome:

Separation in several files (WIP):
- preamble.tex: package imports and configuration
- (done) report.tex: title page and content

SnipyJulmy / hesso-latextemplate-pa