Templar is a project templating engine. If you find yourself regularly
creating new projects by cp -r old-project new-project, then this may be
the tool for you. It is great for simple one-off test projects where you just
need to setup a bare bones program structure, but it’s also great as a tool to
create LaTeX projects from templates.
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'templar'
And then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install templar
Getting a new article started could be as simple as:
templar -t article my-latest-article
You can specify your default attributes in a templar config file like this:
--- !Templar
author: True Grit
department: Department of Information Systems
affiliation: University of Maryland, Baltimore County
city: Baltimore, MD, USA
email: example@umbc.edu
webpage: http://www.umbc.edu
These attributes would then be available to all templates used by Templar.
- Fork it
- Create your feature branch (
git checkout -b my-new-feature) - Commit your changes (
git commit -am 'Add some feature') - Push to the branch (
git push origin my-new-feature) - Create new Pull Request
It would be great to be able to provide a file to replace one of the files provided in the template at run time. For example, doing something like this:
templar -t latex_article --replace bib/bibliography.bib=$HOME/Documents/my-pubs.bib
...should be possible. I’m not sure if that’s the sort of syntax I like, but something along those lines would be nice.