LaTeX template

A LaTeX template for scientific writing, with a focus on reproducibility and ease of use.

Usage instructions

Build PDF

Author changes in main.tex and references.bib as needed, and then compile to PDF with:

nix build

and look in the result directory for the PDF.

Interactive watch mode

Have latexmk continuously watch for changes and recompile the PDF:

nix develop
latexmk -interaction=nonstopmode -auxdir=.cache/latex -pdf -pvc main.tex

Reduce size of build environment

If you know you won't need all the LaTeX packages included with TeX Live, you can make the build environment smaller by replacing texliveFull in buildInputs with texlive.combine and including only what you need. For example:

(texlive.combine { inherit (texlive) latexmk scheme-basic biblatex biber; })

However, by doing this you'll need to find the corresponding Nix package in the nixpkgs repository, and add it to the environment manually whenever you want to include a new LaTeX package. For this reason, it can be easier during writing to just use texliveFull unless you have a specific need not to.