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Generic template for midsize and larger documents based on KOMA script classes.
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Extend Requirements section of README #34

Closed dsalaj closed 2 years ago

dsalaj commented 3 years ago

Maybe extending the Requirements section of README to include the required packages would be useful. In order to just compile it for the first time on Ubuntu I had to install texlive-bibtex-extra and texlive-lang-german. And there is not much about requirements in the Template-Documentation.pdf. An optimal solution would be something like conda environment yml file or something along those lines. But just extending the README with a small list of essential latex packages that one can install would already be a huge help. Or even a one-liner:

sudo apt install texlive-latex-extra texlive-bibtex-extra texlive-lang-german

Let me know if you like the suggestion. I could make a PR for the conda environment file. And thanks for the template 👍

novoid commented 3 years ago

Hi,

This is very good input, you're referring to.

However, I don't know what conda is. Can you provide me a link?

For example, users of Windows MikTeX don't have to manually install anything at all because the LaTeX distro is installing missing requirements on-the-fly while compiling.

I'm not convinced that listing dependencies for all kind of LaTeX environments and operating systems is a good approach here. I also do have only two different hosts to test. Both are in productive use. Therefore, I would have to set up a series of virtual machines in order to find out about the manual dependency effort.

The target audience of the template is not a person that does not have LaTeX experience. At least a couple of years ago, installing biblatex was a major task, not very well supported. But I do understand that dependencies might be added in some form which I'm able to maintain in a sane way.

novoid commented 2 years ago

Closing this issue due to no update for almost a year.