fliptanedo/flip-paper-template-2021

Flip's Paper Template, 2021 version

flip-paper-template 2021

A LaTeX paper template that I use for papers and notes. GitHub Location; replaces older version.

By Flip Tanedo (flip.tanedo@ucr.edu)

Uses Jacques Distler's utcaps.bst and AAS TeX's aas_macros.sty, included in this repository. Place figures in the \figures directory.

How to use this

For those, like me, are less competent with git and GitHub than we really aught to be.

1. Go to repo's page on GitHub.

2. Click on the green Code button just to the top-right of the list of files.

3. Copy the URL that pops up. It should be: https://github.com/fliptanedo/flip-paper-template.git

4. Locally (on your system) go to the parent directory of where you'd like to start a new LaTeX project and open a Terminal (command prompt) window there. Assuming you have git set up, you can simply type in

   git clone https://github.com/fliptanedo/flip-paper-template.git 
   

5. and press enter.

6. This should create a new folder flip-paper-template. Go ahead and rename it right away:

   mv flip-paper-template new-folder-name
   

7. Go ahead and start your new project.

8. If you'd like to put this new project on GitHub:

   1. Start a new GitHub repository through the web interface.

   2. Do not initialize with a README.md file.

   3. Follow the steps to push an existing repository. Except: there's one problem. Your copy of flip-paper-template (now renamed) is already connected to the paper template GitHub repository. This should be:

      git remote set-url origin [https://github.com/....git]
      git push -u origin master
      

      Where the first line is changed from git remote add origin. Note that master may be renamed to main.

   4. Alternately (in place of previous step), you can remove the obsolete remote and then add the new remote:

      git remote rm origin
      git remote add origin [https://github.com/....git]
      

That should do it.