jgbarah / collaborativenotebook

Collaborative Notebook

CollaborativeNotebook

Introduction

Collaborative Notebook for Economic Aspects Subject coursed in Master on Libre Software (Master Universitario en Software libre at Universidad Rey juan Carlos.

Goals

The goal of this project is to to create a collaborative notebook with the working class notes from students.

Requirements

1. LaTeX: LaTeX is a high-quality typesetting system.
2. git: Distributed version control system.

Note:

This document is only for Linux environments.

Install Git

Using your preferred package manager of your Linux distribution.

• Debian/Ubuntu:

  $ apt-get install git
  

• Fedora:

  $ yum install git
  

• Gentoo:

  $ emerge --ask --verbose dev-vcs/git
  

• Arch Linux:

  $ pacman -S git
  

• FreeBSD:

  $ cd /usr/ports/devel/git
  $ make install
  

• Solaris 11 Express:

  $ pkg install developer/versioning/git
  

• OpenBSD:

  $ pkg_add git
  

Install LaTeX

Here is the installation process using Ubuntu. In other Linux distributions you have to use your distro package manager.

How to install LaTeX in Ubuntu:

    $ sudo apt-get install texlive

The above command will install a basic subset of TeX Live’s functionality. To install all the packages in the LaTeX distribution, you have to run the following command:

    $ sudo apt-get install texlive-full

Files Description

Images Directory

Place the images in this directory:

    ├── img
        ├── by.png
        └── by-sa.png

Bibliography

Bibliography file to update with Lesson references:

    ├── MSWL_ECO.bib

Documentation files

Main LaTeX file from which all lesson files are linked:

    ├── MSWL_ECO_main.tex

Each file per Lesson:

    ├── MSWL_ECO_lesson1.tex
    ├── MSWL_ECO_lesson2.tex
    ├── MSWL_ECO_lesson3.tex
    ├── MSWL_ECO_lesson4.tex
    ├── MSWL_ECO_lesson5.tex

Description project file:

    ├── README.md

Generate pdf

Using the command pdflatex in repository's home directory with main file will generate whole notebook pdf:

    $ pdflatex MSWL_ECO_main.tex

And see output log for compiling errors.