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Iyach tharwa nambarek
Iyach tharwa nambarek

Reputation: 157

Vim: Create a template for Latex

I have created this VimScript function to automatically generate a template for newly created latex files (with *.tex extension)

function CreateLatexTemplate()
    normal ggi\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{article}
    normal o\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
    normal o\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
    normal o\usepackage{amsmath}
    normal o\usepackage{amsfonts}
    normal o\usepackage{amssymb}
    normal o\usepackage{graphicx}
    normal o\usepackage[left=1.00cm, right=1.00cm, top=1.00cm, bottom=1.00cm]{geometry}
    normal o\author{Author Name}
    normal o\begin{document}
    normal o\end{document}
    normal ko
endfunction

autocmd BufNewFile *.tex call CreateLatexTemplate()

So far it works just fine. But as you can see that I am repeating myself several times in the function CreateLatexTemplate.

Could someone please suggest a better alternative to my syntax?

Thank you

Upvotes: 1

Views: 430

Answers (2)

jdhao
jdhao

Reputation: 28349

Apart from using snippet plugin, you can also use a template plugin like vim-template, see also this post.

Upvotes: 1

jubnzv
jubnzv

Reputation: 1574

I don't think there is a better alternative for this syntax, but I want to suggest a different approach.

You may be interested in snippets which are essentially templates that make it easier to enter repeating code patterns. Here is a demo from the Ultisnips repo that shows how it works:

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You just need to install the snippets plugin and create a snippet from your template to use it in your work.

This is quite popular approach to writing complex LaTeX documents, you could see this post for more inspiration.

Upvotes: 3

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