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Eisvogel: A clean pandoc LaTeX template with a focus on computer science

by gvand on 4/6/19, 8:13 AM with 20 comments

• by mig4ng on 4/6/19, 3:40 PM

  Very interesting not only for professors but also for students as myself. I had a similar workflow for my assignments using Markdown and pandoc but this template is better in so many ways that I may change my workflow.

  For those that want to try this without the manual and painful installation process I found that pandocker[1] supports this template.

  [1] https://github.com/dalibo/pandocker

• by SebiH on 4/6/19, 2:25 PM

  While I really like the colours (reminds me of Nord[0]), wouldn't it be better to use a serif font? Most researchers I know still read research papers on actual paper, where serif fonts seem to be preferred.

  [0]: https://github.com/arcticicestudio/nord

• by Eugeleo on 4/6/19, 8:28 PM

  I'd like to do my notes in markdown, but as a maths/cs student there's a lot of structure in the data (proofs, lemmas, intermezzos, sidenotes) that would be lost should I go down (eheh) the markdown route. I've been using Pollen [1] (you can think of it as LaTeX for web programmable in Racket and without cool typesetting, so yeah, not like LaTeX at all), but I wouldn't mind something more elegant and readable in plain text.

  How do you (would you, did you) take your notes in college?

  [1] http://pollenpub.com

• by asicsp on 4/6/19, 2:54 PM

  looks nice, will try it out

  For my usecase, I started from default pandoc+xelatex output and customized step by step searching on stackoverflow/tex.stackexchange for things like font, page size, link color, styling inline code, chapter breaks, bullet styling, pdf properties, etc [1]

  [1] https://learnbyexample.github.io/tutorial/ebook-generation/c...

• by y4mi on 4/6/19, 7:50 PM

  looks good, but the licence is a strange pick for a template... as i understand the wording, you'll have to add the licence even if you make a PDF.

  > Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

  > [...]

  > Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice,

• by amelius on 4/6/19, 6:29 PM

  Nice, but how well does it deal with corner cases, e.g. listings that run over multiple pages, or lines that are too long?

• by _emacsomancer_ on 4/6/19, 2:29 PM

  Tangentially (looking at the example), have people created Lorem Ipsum generators for code?

• by mhd on 4/6/19, 11:02 PM

  I’ve been using this for internal work documents for quite a while, and I’ve been very happy with the workflow, and the look of the docs has been well received.

• by PaulHoule on 4/6/19, 2:23 PM

  Beautiful!