Benjamin Mako Hill
c0406f157f
Drops the memoir class in favor of the standard article class so the
LaTeX tagging-project can produce fully tagged PDFs. The metadata-only
\\DeclareDocumentMetadata workaround is replaced by the full
\\DocumentMetadata{pdfstandard=ua-2} path with tagpdf activated.
text.tex is now built against cdsc-paper.sty (added in the previous
commit); cdsc-memoir.sty is removed. Other changes:
- pdftitle/pdfauthor are set explicitly in \\hypersetup. UA-2 strict
mode requires dc:title in the XMP packet, and pdfusetitle does not
propagate \\title{}/\\author{} into XMP under this setup.
- The memoir-only \\firmlists call is dropped (cdsc-paper.sty handles
list spacing via enumitem).
- The memoir-only \\prebibhook reference is removed from defbibheading.
verapdf --flavour ua2: 0 failures, 1723 passed rules.
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, assignments, and letters. 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 EB Garamond (provided by texlive-fonts-extra) and TeX Gyre
Heros.
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=== Accessibility ==============
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The letter and poster 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 assignment templates are based on the memoir class, which
is not yet compatible with the LaTeX tagged-PDF code. They load the
pdfmanagement-testphase layer for PDF metadata only. When memoir gains
tagging support upstream, the commented-out \DocumentMetadata and tagpdf
lines in each template can be re-enabled. See:
https://github.com/latex3/tagging-project/issues/910
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=== Branches ===================
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This repository has two main branches:
master Standard LaTeX templates (paper, assignment, letter)
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)
assignment LaTeX assignment 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_assignment → new_tex_document assignment
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, new_tex_assignment, 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_assignment mydir
New: new_tex_document assignment 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.