What is this?

A latex template for students like me who

• Need to write papers / thesises
• Dislike WYSIWYG and like the charm of the Latex system
• But are too lazy to remember the clumsy syntax, commands etc.
• Like markdown for it's simplicity

This little project aims to enable a simple workflow to just start

0. Install (see requirements)
1. Fork & clone or download
2. Set document information in Head.tex
3. Write your paper in Inhalt.md.txt using your favorite editor
4. Write / compile your bibliography to Literatur.bib
5. Run script/generate (in the project directory)
6. Et voila, your paper is there (Arbeit.pdf)

This is just how it works for me, not more.

Based on a template used at my university (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany) http://www.wi.uni-muenster.de/qm/studieren/LaTeXVorlage.html

Why markdown

I'm too lazy to remember LaTex commands, they're a pita to type and the extended markdown pandoc offers suits for me.

Requirements

1. A Unix environment (Tested under Ubuntu 10.04)
2. A Tex distribution (e.g. TeXLive) sudo apt-get install
3. pandoc
4. ruby

On Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install pandoc texlive texlive-doc-de texlive-latex-extra texlive-lang-german

Reading

• http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/LaTeX
• http://www.wi.uni-muenster.de/qm/studieren/LaTeXVorlage.html
• http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax

You might like

• pandoc: It offers way more convert options!
• Mendeley (citation manager)
• vim-markdown, a markdown plugin for vim, the most awesome text editor

ToDo

• Windows compatibility?
• Remove ruby dependence