My personal environment to start writing things in LaTeX
Required installation before this will work (I hope you are on linux, that makes live easier...):
- LaTeX (obviously), including all packages in your docunent.
- Latex-mk
- LuaLatex, for handling the tex files
- Biber, for reference handling
- Write the LaTeX document.
- Go to the working directory in the terminal
- Run
make COMMAND
to get the pdf file. The interesting commands are (checkMakefile
for details):full
: boring standard thing that generates your pdfdebug
: iffull
gives you errors, debug will tell you what they areclean
: does not generate pdf, but cleans up all auxillary files (.aux
,.bbl
, etc., etc.).final
: throw away all auxillary files and start compiling from scratch, probably smart to check if it REALLY works before sending to someone important.- The rest you will not need unless you want to show off.