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Templates for use in preparing articles for the Living Journal of Computational Molecular Sciences (LiveCoMS)
http://www.livecomsjournal.org/
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Consider using Github's "template repository" mechanism #84

Open ltalirz opened 3 years ago

ltalirz commented 3 years ago

This repository currently serves two slightly different purposes

  1. It provides the LaTeX templates for livecoms articles and instructions on how to use them
  2. It contains instructions on how to create your own github repository to accompany your article (explained in some subitems of "Getting started")

I have to admit that I totally overlooked point 2 when I downloaded the LaTeX templates, and browsing some of the git repositories associated with livecoms articles, the diversity of choices (README/no README, store PDFs / store TeX, use subfolders for versions/use git tags for versions/ ...) suggests to me that some standardization would be useful.

I would suggest to consider replacing the manual instructions for 2. by Github's "template repository" mechanism. I.e. keep this repository for the Latex templates and documentation but provide another, minimalistic Github repository that already contains the README + .gitignore + some basic directory structure. Starting a new repository from it can then be done with a few clicks.

Here is an example of how this could look like: https://github.com/ltalirz/livecoms-template-repository