Benjamin Mako Hill
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EB Garamond's bold weight ships with only 127 cmapped glyphs --- no
Latin Extended-A, no Vietnamese, no Greek, no Cyrillic, no fi/fl
ligatures --- so any bold text containing accented characters
(Polish, Czech, Vietnamese, etc., as well as bold author names in
citations) renders as tofu boxes or font-fallback substitutions.
Switch the default body font in paper_template, memo_template, and
letter_template to Libertinus Serif. It ships in texlive-fonts-extra,
has comprehensive Latin / Vietnamese / Greek / Cyrillic coverage in
every weight, and includes all the standard f-ligatures explicitly.
Each template also picks up a commented-out
\\setmainfont{Garamond Premier Pro} block plus a short note: Adobe
Garamond Premier Pro is Mako's preferred body font but is commercial
and not redistributable, so the public templates default to
Libertinus and CDSC members can swap in once they have the font
installed (e.g., in ~/.fonts/).
README updated to match.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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=== CDSC LaTeX Templates =======
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Copyright (c) 2009-2026 Benjamin Mako Hill <mako@atdot.cc> / <makohill@uw.edu>
This repository contains LaTeX configuration files and templates used to
format papers, memos, letters, and posters. All files are released under
the GNU GPL version 3 or later.
The latest version can be found in git at:
https://gitea.communitydata.science/collective/cdsc_tex
You can check out the latest version with:
git clone https://gitea.communitydata.science/collective/cdsc_tex.git
Bug reports, comments, questions, and patches can be directed to:
Benjamin Mako Hill <makohill@uw.edu> [work]
Benjamin Mako Hill <mako@atdot.cc> [personal]
To submit a patch, clone the repository, make your changes, and use
git format-patch to generate patch files to send by email:
git format-patch origin/master
git send-email *.patch
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=== Dependencies ===============
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On Debian or Ubuntu, install the following packages:
* latexmk
* texlive-luatex
* texlive-latex-recommended
* texlive-fonts-extra
* texlive-fonts-recommended
* texlive-bibtex-extra
apt install latexmk texlive-luatex texlive-latex-recommended \
texlive-fonts-extra texlive-fonts-recommended \
texlive-bibtex-extra
On other systems, installing a full TeX Live distribution should provide
everything needed.
All four templates build with LuaLaTeX (via latexmk -lualatex). The text
fonts are Libertinus Serif and TeX Gyre Heros, both provided by
texlive-fonts-extra.
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=== Accessibility ==============
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All four templates produce PDF/UA-2 compliant tagged PDFs via the
LaTeX tagging project (\DocumentMetadata + tagpdf). You can verify
compliance with verapdf: https://verapdf.org/
The paper and memo templates were originally built on the memoir
class, which is incompatible with the LaTeX tagged-PDF code. They now
use the standard article class with custom styling (cdsc-paper.sty
and cdsc-memo.sty) to keep their previous look while supporting full
tagging.
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=== Branches ===================
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This repository has two main branches:
master Standard LaTeX templates (paper, memo, letter, poster)
knitr Knitr/R template for reproducible research documents
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=== Scripts ====================
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new_tex_document
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Creates a new document directory from a template. Takes a document type
and destination directory as arguments:
new_tex_document <type> <directory>
Available types:
paper LaTeX paper template (master branch)
memo LaTeX memo template (master branch)
knitr Knitr/R paper template (knitr branch)
letter LaTeX letter template (master branch)
Example:
new_tex_document paper my-new-paper
This creates my-new-paper/ populated with the template files, with the
main source file renamed to my-new-paper.tex (or .Rtex for knitr).
rename_tex_to_dirname
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Renames the single .tex file in the current directory to match the
directory name. Useful for cleaning up a template that was set up
manually:
cd my-paper && rename_tex_to_dirname
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=== Shell Aliases ==============
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The file cdsc_tex_aliases.sh provides aliases for the old individual
script names, for convenience or backwards compatibility. Add the
following to your .bashrc or .zshrc:
[[ -f ~/tex/cdsc_tex/cdsc_tex_aliases.sh ]] && \
source ~/tex/cdsc_tex/cdsc_tex_aliases.sh
This defines the following aliases (only if new_tex_document is in PATH):
new_tex_memo → new_tex_document memo
new_knitr_document → new_tex_document knitr
new_tex_letter → new_tex_document letter
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=== Migration ==================
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The individual scripts new_knitr_document and new_tex_letter have
been consolidated into new_tex_document. The old scripts remain in
the repository but are superseded.
To migrate, replace calls to the old scripts with new_tex_document:
Old: new_knitr_document mydir
New: new_tex_document knitr mydir
Old: new_tex_letter mydir
New: new_tex_document letter mydir
Alternatively, source cdsc_tex_aliases.sh (see above) to keep using the
old names without changing your workflow.