inarts / paper-template

The template I use for starting a new paper

Template for papers

This is my personal paper template. I developed it when writing my PhD thesis and it has proven useful in many occasions (project proposals, papers, technical reports etc.)

The Makefile copies Latex files from the latex directory and figures from the figure directory to the build directory, where it runs the pdflatex command. The following transformations are automatically applied to the figures in order to convert them to PDF files, suitable for use by pdflatex:

• .eps files are converted to PDF using the epstopdf program
• .dot files are converted to PDF using the Graphiz program.
• .dat files are combined with .plot files and fed to Gnuplot to produce .eps files. Both files must have the same suffix. By convention, data are stored in .dat files while plotting instructions are stored in .plot files.

Bibliography is handled as follows:

• An .aux file is generated by running pdflatex on the input file
• If the .bib file is supplied by the author in the latex directory, it is used as input.
• Otherwise, the bibliography is collected from a list of .bib files generated by recursively searching the directory specified in the specified PAPERPATH.

If no references exist in the input .tex file, the compilation process will fail.

License

2-clause BSD