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WZL Latex

Template, requirements, tools & tricks
Contact: Mark Sanders (sdr) or Tobias Hamann (hmt)

Main Document Template

Topic Description Template

Info
This is an examplary LaTeX project with .tex and .bib files as a template for writing final reports, theses or dissertations in WZL style. The formatting rules and parameters are located in the format/WZLtemplate.cls file.

NOTES:

  • Use LuaLaTeX or XeLaTeX as compiler
  • Use biber as bibliography program
  • Export bibliography from Citavi as BibLatex Export.

Getting started

With Overleaf by Mark

Overleaf (ShareLaTeX)

Online TeX-System & IDE
For a fully integrated web-based TeX and IDE system check-out the RWTH/TU Darmstadt Overleaf instance: Overleaf
The master branch of this repository is pushed to this public Overleaf project: wzl-latex project (state: 2025-03-19)

Disadvantages of overleaf are the necessary figure and literature uploads.
Advantages are the out-of-the-box usage without aforementioned software installations.

With VS Code and Latex Workshop by Mark

Editing locally

Requirements

TeX system
For compiling .tex-files locally, a TeX-System is required. I recommend TinyTeX.

IDE
For proper .tex-files editing an IDE is needed. I recommend VSCode with LaTeX Workshop installed.

First steps

When working with a local TeX System and IDE, download or clone this repository to your empty project directory:
Clone with tls/https (requires your Gitlab login):
git clone https://git-ce.rwth-aachen.de/wzl-mq-public/templates/wzl-latex.git --recurse-submodules

Install all necessary packages

tlmgr install `cat texlive_packages.txt`

Compile the main.tex-file with your IDE and consider the resulting PDF for further explanations.

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