adding a template for homework assignments

assignment_template/text.tex

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+\documentclass[12pt]{memoir}
+
+% article-1 and article-2 styles were originally based on kieran healy's
+% templates
+\usepackage{mako-mem}
+\chapterstyle{article-2}
+
+% with article-3 \chapterstyle, change to: \pagestyle{memo}
+\pagestyle{mako-mem}
+
+\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
+
+\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
+\usepackage{textcomp}
+\usepackage[garamond]{mathdesign}
+
+\usepackage[letterpaper,left=1.65in,right=1.65in,top=1.3in,bottom=1.2in]{geometry}
+
+% packages i use in essentially every document
+\usepackage{graphicx}
+\usepackage{enumerate}
+
+% packages i use in many documents but leave off by default
+% \usepackage{amsmath, amsthm, amssymb}
+% \usepackage{dcolumn}
+% \usepackage{endfloat}
+
+% import and customize urls
+\usepackage[usenames,dvipsnames]{color}
+\usepackage[breaklinks]{hyperref}
+
+\hypersetup{colorlinks=true, linkcolor=Black, citecolor=Black, filecolor=Blue,
+    urlcolor=Blue, unicode=true}
+
+% add bibliographic stuff 
+% memoir function to take out of the space out of the whitespace lists
+\firmlists
+
+% LATEX NOTE: these lines will import vc stuff after running `make vc` which
+% will add version control information to the bottom of each page. This can be
+% useful for keeping track of which version of a document somebody has:
+% \input{vc}
+% \pagestyle{mako-mem-git}
+
+\begin{document}
+
+\setlength{\parskip}{4.5pt}
+% LATEX NOTE: Ideal linespacing is usually said to be between 120-140% the
+% typeface size. So, for 12pt (default in this document, we're looking for
+% somewhere between a 14.4-17.4pt \baselineskip.  Single; 1.5 lines; and Double
+% in MSWord are equivalent to ~117%, 175%, and 233%.
+
+\baselineskip 16pt
+
+\title{Title}
+\author{Nathan TeGrotenhuis\\
+        \href{mailto:nathante@uw.edu}{nathante@uw.edu}}
+\date{\today}
+
+\maketitle
+
+\section{Section}
+
+
+\end{document}
+
+%  LocalWords: