Subject of this article.

I am not a computer scientist but I have been using LaTeX for over ten years to write court documents. Only a few months ago I started to follow some tutorials on programming with Python.

I immediately wondered if LaTeX and Python could interact with each other.

So I asked Gemini to generate a source in Python for that purpose.

An article illustrating the use of Sublime Text for creating complex documents, with a focus on legal briefs written in LaTeX.

• 1. This article is about LaTeX and Sublime Text.
• 2. The bad news: LaTeXTools is out of date.
• 3. Placeholders and Variables.
• 4. Multiple cursors.
• 5. Paste lists of documents copied from folders.
• 6. Create and use bookmarks.
• 7. Persistence of open documents.
• 8. Snippet for the creation of Sections.
• 9. A useful little “script”.
• 10. Compilation, viewers and other commands.
• 11. Conclusion.

1. This article is about LaTeX and Sublime Text.

The outstanding typographic quality of LaTeX cannot be doubted.

Vim is an editor with endless capabilities. It can also generate hyperlinks in LaTeX language to other locally stored documents, thanks to its built-in Regular Expressions. For lawyers, this means linking a legal document with its related evidentiary materials. This is the analysis of the procedure.

• 1. Subject of this article.
• 2. Main document configuration.
• 3. RegEx formula for automatic link generation.
• 4. Explanation of the RegEx formula.
• 5. Management of “underline character”.
• 6. Links within the text
  • 6.1. “Indirect linkage” solution:
  • 6.2. “Direct link” solution:

1. Subject of this article.

Sometimes it is necessary to include in a main PDF document a list of documents to be retrieved with specific hyperlinks dedicated to each item in the list.

LaTeX: class definition, standard classes and font sizes.

In LaTeX, the term “class” refers to a predefined or custom document type that determines the general layout, style, and options available for formatting a document.

The classes in LaTeX are identified by the file extension .cls and provide the basic instructions for document structure.

The main features of a class in LaTeX relate to the page format as well as the style of the title, of the sections and text.

LaTeX and the document format

As, of course, you all already know (:smiley:), LaTeX is a language dedicated to the typesetting of documents with state-of-the-art quality.

It is, therefore, unnecessary to note that the basics of LaTeX can be learned in about 30 minutes, as illustrated in this page.

For the purposes of this article, it is sufficient to recall that sources in LaTeX are composed of a preliminary part, also called the preamble, and the document with the contents.

Preface on LaTeX and MS Word

I have been using LaTeX for about thirty years to write documents of all kinds: court documents, reports, research, projects and more.

After overcoming the challenging initial learning curve, therefore, it is very unlikely that one will go back to “traditional” word processing systems: the extraordinary typographic quality and considerable time savings have become indispensable.

Sometimes, however, it is necessary to exchange material written in LaTeX to friends and colleagues who have not yet had the opportunity to appreciate it.

A smart system for writing

Vim is a great editing tool.

LaTeX is a “State of the Art” typesetting system.

Vim and LaTeX together make a powerful writing system, but an add-on is needed to relate them.

VimTex provides exactly that target by relating Vim to LaTeX, and it does its job very well.

So Vim and VimTex is a smart system for every kind of writer in LaTeX.

The topic is vast and certainly cannot be contained in a short post like this one.

LaTeX, three packages for one document

The standard version of LaTeX has a “state of the art” typographic quality, suitable for any type of document.

For those who want to try different typographical solutions it is, however, possible to use packages that modify the basic settings.

The result may be more or less preferable to the standard version but it is, however, interesting to make some comparative tests.

In this article I compare the title page of an agreement document in the standard version, in the version named koma-script and in the further version named ArsClassica.

The usual introduction to Emacs, Org Mode and LaTeX

This is the usual introduction to Emacs, Org Mode and LaTeX: if you already know everything you can skip it.

Org Mode under GNU Emacs is a very powerful tool for organizing ideas.

An excellent features of this tool is its ability to directly export documents from Org Mode to LaTeX, the absolute excellence for pagination, as well as to other languages such as Markdown and HTML.

Variables and legal documents

My work consists of writing legal documents.

Legal documents are full of data and many of them have to be repeatedly inserted.

Think, for example, about the names of people or of places, dates of events, etc.

A method is needed to avoid manually repeating recurring data when writing documents, both to avoid wasting time and typing errors.

A good system is to use “variables”, i.e. placeholders that take on different values depending on the documents in which they are inserted.

LaTeX and LilyPond

LaTeX is a "state-of-the art" pagination system for text, maths and more.

LilyPond is the same for musical scores.

LaTeX and LilyPond together are a true excellence to mix music notation and text within same documents.

But it is not so easy to generate documents by using that combination of markup languages.

This post is intended as a simple introduction to start using LaTeX and LilyPond in documents containing text and music notation.