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This repository provides LaTeX classes for creating structured academic documents, including lectures, exercises, and exams. The template is designed to standardize and simplify document creation for courses, with built-in formatting and styling.
Provides a clean and professional layout for lecture notes, with support for:
- Author information
- Titles
- Footnotes
- A consistent structure for academic content
Designed for exercise sheets, this class enables easy structuring of:
- Problems
- Solutions
- Formatting features such as sectioning and problem numbering
This class assists in the formatting of exams by providing:
- Automatic question numbering
- Consistent spacing
- Header formatting for exam information
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Clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/IAS-Uni-Siegen/course_template.git
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Use the LaTeX
.clsfiles in your documents:\documentclass{lectureClass} % or exerciseClass, examClass
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Compile your
.texfiles as usual withpdflatex,xelatex, or your preferred LaTeX compiler.
To integrate this repository into your existing project as a submodule, follow these steps:
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Navigate to your project directory in the terminal.
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Add the course template repository as a submodule:
git submodule add https://github.com/IAS-Uni-Siegen/course_template.git
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Initialize and update the submodule to ensure it is ready for use:
git submodule init git submodule update
This allows you to use the LaTeX classes provided in the course template repository directly within your project.
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Default theme is
unisiegen-IAS -
General color palette and pdfdata options are defined in
.styfiles intheme/which can be modified as necessary -
In
themefolder, you can create your own theme asyourtheme.styand load it updating class option inmain.tex:\documentclass[s 7492 olution, yourtheme]{../course_template/exerciseClass}
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For the repository to work out-of-the-box with custom theme, it must have
defaultcoloranddefaultlightcolordefined in your custom theme file -
As additional examples,
unisiegenandunipaderbornthemes are provided -
For advanced customization, files in
stylefolder can be modified
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Depending on how you include the
.clsfiles in your project, it is possible that latex might generate following warning:LaTeX: You have requested document class '../course_template/exerciseClass', but the document class provides 'exerciseClass'.
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Although, this warning does not affect document generation and can be ignored here, it can be resolved by updating TEXINPUTS environment variable. If you are using VSCode with LaTeX-Workshop extension, procedure to update environment variable is available at LaTeX-Workshop wiki.
- All example themes contain a six-color palette designed to provide improved readability and accessibility for generated documents
- This color palette is taken from "Communicating Effectively in Color" by J. W. Kimball in IEEE Power Electronics Magazine.