e61 Institute Micronote LaTeX template

This Github repo hosts the LaTeX template for e61 Institute Micronotes.

If you are looking for the research note template, click here.

How to load the template into your Overleaf

1. Download a copy of the template by clicking here (or by clicking on the green "Code" button, then "Download ZIP").
2. On the Overleaf website, click on "New Project", then "Upload Project".
3. Drag and drop the downloaded Zip file as per the instructions.
4. Change the LaTeX compiler to XeLaTeX, otherwise nothing will compile: click on "Menu" in the top-left corner, go to the "Settings" section, click the drop-down box next to "Compiler", select "XeLaTeX".

Separating out the main note from the appendices

You should generate separate PDFs for the main body of the micronote and the appendices. This can be done using the pagesel package that is conveniently commented out in the template. This package allows you to select which pages of a document to render as a PDF.

How to use:

1. Uncomment the line of the code containing the package \usepackage[3-6]{pagesel}.
2. Render the PDF for the main text by selecting the pages, e.g. render pages 1-2 by setting the option \usepackage[1-2]{pagesel}.
3. Render the PDF for the appendix by selecting the remaining pages, e.g. \usepackage[3-6]{pagesel}.

Helpful links

Overleaf has a very large library of user guides and documentation for the LaTeX novice.

• Learn LaTeX

References lists

LaTeX uses .bib files to store references (see here for more). These can be prepared manually, but why do things manually when you could automate them.

If you like, we have access to Mendeley, which is a reference manager. It is very good. Your Mendeley reference library can then be automatically synced with your Overleaf references for a particular document by following the instructions here.