latex-workshop-arara

Template for Latex (LuaTex) with arara as build system.

What is it?

Minimal template for LaTex with arara as build system. Also this will smoothly integrate into the VS Code Plugin Latex-Workshop.

For the typesetting system LuaTex is used. Since it seems to me is the most future proof.

Why arara?

I hate guesswork. So arara gives me full control over the build process and I know what is done when.

This is not the case with other latex build automation tools like latexmk.

How to build

To build the document you can run in your terminal

arara -p build Document.tex

or clean all build files with

arara -p clean Document.tex

This will also clear the Tikz folder and remove the PDF-file.

Or you can use the Latex-Workshop Plugin. Just open one tex-file in your editor, navigate to the plugin shortcut on the right.

What can it do?

• LuaTex is used as the typesetting system.
• The glossaries-extra package is used for a glossary. The entries are stored in a bib-file and bib2gls is used to convert this file.
• All literature is also stored in a bib-file. biblatex with backend biber is used for this.
• Also tikz is already supported. To speed up the build process tikz-externalize is used and all your graphics will be exported to the Tikz folder.

To manage the bib-files you can do it by hand or for example use JabRef.