Features

• template support
• booleans to enable functions :
  • NewPageAfterTitle : add a \newline after title
  • EnableImages : can disable all picture included with boolimage, boolimagetab and boolimagenopdf macros
  • EnableTitle : generate title page
  • EnableTOC : generate table of contents
  • EnableAlinea : when enabled, skip 0.5cm between paragraph
  • EnableMinitoc : enable minitoc mode (for book)
• include fancy chapter macro for books

Installation

• get the daily tarball at : http://www.speedblue.org/conf/latex.tgz
• get the debian package : happycoders-latex add this line to /etc/apt/sources.list

      deb http://debian.speedblue.org ./
  

  This package include a shell script : happycoders-create-rapport : initialize a rapport : generate a latex file and copie all templates to local directory.

Exemple of latex file that use the happycoders latex template

\documentclass[a4paper, french, 10pt, openright, oneside]{book}

%% Include Happycoders Style
\usepackage{template/happycoders}

%% Select Happycoders template : scia or fancy or normal
\usepackage{template/fancy}

%% Select fancy chapter style
\usepackage[Lenny]{template/fncychap}

%% True -> add new page after title
\setboolean{NewPageAfterTitle}{true}
%% True -> generate images
\setboolean{EnableImages}{true}
%% True -> generate Title Page
\setboolean{EnableTitle}{true}
%% True -> generate TOC
\setboolean{EnableTOC}{true}
%% True -> add a space between each paragraph
\setboolean{EnableAlinea}{true}
%% True -> enable minitoc and parttoc
\setboolean{EnableMinitoc}{true}

\createtitle
{Author1, Author2}    % authors in list
{Title, First Line}   % subject (first line)
{Title, Second Line}  % subject (second line)
{sub title}           % sub title
{keywords list...}    % keywords
{Author1 \\
 Author2}             % authors (one per line)

\begin{document}
%% init happycoders mode
\init

%%Include here latex files
\include{first}
\include{second}
\end{document}