heavyimage / latex-base

An example of my preferred use of LaTeX + git.

latex-base

An example of my preferred use of LaTeX + git.

For more information, clone and make. master.pdf explains what's going on here.

A template repository for LaTeX documents

GitHub introduced repository templates, which is exactly the use case of this repo. If you look at the main repository page next to the familiar clone or download button you should see a bright green "Use this template" button. Clicking it will allow you to start your own fresh repo (not a fork) with a fresh name in any organization you have repo creation privileges in.

You can also navigate to the /generate endpoint of this repo to achieve the same effect.

A base for other documents

You can still use this method, but consider using this repository as a template repository instead, as explained above.

Rather than forking this repository, it probably makes sense to use it as a base to import. You can import a repo on GitHub and give it an independent history without keeping it tied to the original repo forever.

Dependencies

Mandatory:

• git
• make
• A LaTeX installation, including the REVTeX macros.

Optional:

• watchman, for continuous TeX recompilation.
• git latexdiff, for producing PDFs with diff highlighting.