lectures

A LaTeX documentclass for lecture notes.

Usage

Including the document class

You can include the document class lectures as follows:

\documentclass{lectures}

To specify a particular language (currently supported just italian and english) you can do the following:

\documentclass[italian]{lectures}

Title page

One of the main features of the library is the provided title page. You can create it as follows:

\documentclass{lectures}
\begin{document}
    \maketitle{
      Your title
    }{
      First author name,Second author name
    }{
      First professor name,Second professor name
    }{
      Parlo Parloni,Parletti Parini
    }{
      Year
    }{
      CFU of the course
    }{
      Informatica
    }{
      University name
    }{
      Country
    }

\end{document}

Features

Silenced useless warnings

Using the package silence the library silences the following warnings:

• latex
  • You have requested package
    • There were undefined references
    • Command
• latexfont
  • Size substitutions with differences
    • Font shape
• biblatex
  • Using fall-back BibTeX(8)
    • Please (re)run BibTeX on the file(s)
• auxhook
  • Cannot patch
• glossaries
  • No printglossary or printglossaries found.

Float related gimmicks

All floating objects are automatically centered and set to H as position with other objects.

Table related gimmicks

L

A new column type is given L, that allows for automatic mathmode in column.

TODO: Add usage example!

Theorems related gimmicks

All theorems are in definition style, meaning that they are not in italic.

Proofs are treated as theorem environments.

The following theorem-like environments are provided:

• theorem
• corollary
• lemma
• proposition
• observation
• definition
• complexity
• property
• problem
• proof

Lists related gimmicks

• Lists are built to be more compact and leave less blank space.
• Using the environment todolist it is possible to create checklists.

TODO: Add todolist example.

Additional gimmicks

• When a page is empty, Latex won't generate page number or other page elements.
• When you want to leave a blank line you can just leave a blank line, without adding \\.
• If you'd like to use roman numerals there a command for that: \rom{your number goes here}.