lazyWeave (version 2.1.4)

lazy.file.start: Start LaTeX Documents

Description

Write code to open a new LaTeX document with packages, classes, a title, and page settings.

Usage

lazy.file.start(docClass = "article", packages = NULL, 
  counters = NULL, layout="", page = "arabic", 
  ligatures = TRUE, title = NULL, author = NULL, date="")

Arguments

docClass

a character string giving a valid LaTeX document class. For example, article, slide, report, book.

layout

LaTeX code for page layout. Remember to escape backslashes!

packages

A character vector of additional LaTeX packages to use.

counters

A character vector of additional counters to initialize.

page

A character string denoting the page numbering style. Options are "arabic", "roman", "Roman", "alph", "Alph".

ligatures

Determines if ligatures are enabled. See the references for a link about ligatures.

title

A title for the document.

author

Author of the document.

date

Date to be printed on the title page

Details

Titles are only made when either title or author are not NULL. Packages automatically included are "xcolor", "graphicx", "colortbl", "soul", and "Sweave". Any user defined templates made in conjuction with lazyWeave must include these packages in order to use figures and underlined text. With page, the options produce the following: ll{ arabic Arabic numbers roman Lower case roman numerals (i, ii, iii, ...) Roman Upper case roman numerals (I, II, III, ...) alph Lower case alphabetic ordering (a, b, c, ...) Alph Upper case alphabetic ordering (A, B, C, ...) }

References

Ligatures: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Formatting#Ligatures

Examples

lazy.file.start(docClass="report", 
    packages=c("pslatex", "palatino", "avant"),
    title="Report Name", author="Your Name")