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Latex Starter (beta)

Latex starter - dont't wait.. start your master thesis in latex today and keep nice structure of project.

Features

  • structure prepared even for big thesis

  • cross platform (Mac OSX, Windows, Linux)

  • build with shortcut in Visual Studio Code:

    • ctrl + shift + b Windows, Linux
    • cmd + shift + b MacOS
  • Bibtex - keep bibliography in source.bib

  • Glossaries - list of acronmyms and glocaries

  • Poslish characters supported (ąęółźźńć)

Requirements

All platforms:

  1. Mitex 2.9 - (https://miktex.org/download
  2. Git for Windows, MacOSX, Linux
  3. Visual Studio Code
  4. Perl for Windows, MacOSX, Linux
  5. Python 2.7 for Windows, Mac OSX, Linux

How to run project ?

  1. Clone project: git clone https://github.com/darekf77/latex-starter.git
  2. Open latex-starter forlder with Visual Studio Code.
  3. (optional step) Go to Extensions / Show Workspace Recommended Extensions and click install for all of them.
  4. Build sample project:
    • ctrl + shift + b Windows, Linux
    • cmd + shift + b MacOS

Known bugs

Windows

  • before build open latex pdf reader TexWorks
    (you can do this from powershell: start C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin\x64\texworks.exe or from start menu) and then use shortcut to do builds

Questions

- Why I can't see files like .gitignore ?

  • open file .vscode/settings.json and edit "files.exclude":