latexer

[machinebacon]

Creates a LaTeX template for articles, with different sections.

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#!/bin/bash

# for document classes, see http://texcatalogue.ctan.org/bytopic.html#classes

# set defaults
DOCCLASS_DEF=article
FONTSIZE_DEF=10
AUTHORNAME_DEF=(`whoami`)
TITLE_DEF=none
DOCDATE_DEF=today

# ask for user input
read -p "Font size in pt (default: $FONTSIZE_DEF) > " FONTSIZE
read -p "Document class (default: $DOCCLASS_DEF) > " DOCCLASS
read -p "Author's name (default: $AUTHORNAME_DEF) > " AUTHORNAME
read -p "Title (default: $TITLE_DEF) > " TITLE

# check if defaults are changed
FONTSIZE="${FONTSIZE:-$FONTSIZE_DEF}"
DOCCLASS="${DOCCLASS:-$DOCCLASS_DEF}"
AUTHORNAME="${AUTHORNAME:-$AUTHORNAME_DEF}"
TITLE="${TITLE:-$TITLE_DEF}"

# Summary
echo Creating $DOCCLASS template named $TITLE with font size of $FONTSIZE pt written by $AUTHORNAME.

# add pt without space
PT="pt"
FONTSIZEPT=`echo $FONTSIZE$PT`
read -p "Save template in /home/$USER as > " TEMPLATE

# create heredoc
cat > /home/$USER/$TEMPLATE <<EOF

\title{$TITLE}
\author{$AUTHORNAME}
\date{\today}

\documentclass[$FONTSIZEPT]{$DOCCLASS}

\begin{document}
\maketitle

\begin{abstract}
Abstract here...
\end{abstract}

\section{Introduction}
This is the introduction

\paragraph{Outline}
This is the outline
\bibliographystyle{abbrv}
\bibliography{main}

\end{document}
EOF

# start Emacs - switch to whizzytex for live preview
emacs -nw /home/$USER/$TEMPLATE

[GekkoP]

Nice, very nice. Time put some LaTeX on Emacs now. ;)

[machinebacon]

Just get whizzytex, that should be enough :)

(lol, I just wanted to press C-x C-c to send the message...)

[GekkoP]

^ oh cool, thanks for the tip. And yeah, those wacky escape sequences...

[wei2912]

This is incredibly useful :D