`classnotes`

latex for lectures. examples here.

about

this is a pdfLaTeX package which is effectively a template for making pretty notes. it comes with preloaded packages/environments/shorthands for things that i do (e.g. math, linguistics, cs, chem) and is primarily built to make writing LaTeX notes in lecture significantly faster & easier.

basic functionality

style

there are seven(!!) font options which you can pass as you load the package: human, gara, transitional, dido, mech, sans, and cms. you can also pass in the mathfont option to have the math font match the rest of the text, i personally think this looks worse but you do you.

if you want slightly more exciting notes you can use the colors option, which just redefines the colors of the theorem environments.

theorems

you can create a theorem-like environment by writing

\begin{thrm}[Title]
	Content.
\end{thrm}

you can create quite a few different environments with this, incl. eqn, lemma, corr, algo, defn, example, remark, claim, and a substantial amount more. you can also write a solution or a two-column proof in a similar way.

special commands

the package preloads like every standard math + cs + linguistics + physics/chem package. i've defined a reasonable amount of common shorthands which you can find via going through the package; some of these are just things that i prefer (e.g. \eps = \varepsilon). i also include auto-sized delimiters like \p{} and \floor{}.

for linguistics i use forest rather than gb4e. there are a couple fun shorthands like \phonss and \denot[]{}.