makeSheet

an easy-to-use CLI utility to create LaTeX templates for university assignments

Ideal if you work on your assignments as team and use Dropbox to synchronize the assignments.

Usage

Go to your terminal, enter the directory where you want to keep your assignments and type

ms

When run for the first time in a directory makeSheet will create a course configuration. The second time it is run it will prompt you for the details of the assignment. You will need be prompted for the

• assignment number
• the due date (in a dd.MM format, eg "31.10")
• the names of the exercises (comma-separated list, eg "1,2,3" or "exercise 1, exercise 2") The next time you run makeSheet in this directory, you will be provided with default values for each of these.
• assignment number of the last assignment + 1
• the due date of the last assignment + 1 week
• the same exercises as last week

Following exemplary directory structure will be created

• .config.xml
• .lastUsage.xml
• 1/
• 1/assignment1.tex
• 1/1.tex
• 1/2.tex`

assignment.tex will contain the LaTeX template and the lines

• \input{1}
• \input{2}

This type of document layout is necessary if you want to edit an assignment which is under Dropbox synchronization in order to avoid conflicts and overwriting!

You can see the contents of the template at https://github.com/arsenij-solovjev/makeSheet/blob/master/src/main/resources/template.tex

Requirements

• Java 1.7
• Linux
• texlive

Installation

• Go to https://github.com/arsenij-solovjev/makeSheet/blob/master/bin/makesheet_2.9.2-0.9-one-jar.jar and click "View Raw"
• Save in a directory that is on your path
• Go to that directory and enter chmod a+x makesheet_2.9.2-0.9-one-jar.jar
• Add the following line to your .bashrc alias ms='makesheet_2.9.2-0.9-one-jar.jar'

TODOS

• allow to override the default template for a directory
• installation script (if you know how to do this, please share! because I don't)