Steve's 2nd Article/Manuscript Template — article2 • stevetemplates

Another template for academic articles/manuscripts. For more information, see here: https://svmiller.com/blog/2020/09/another-rmarkdown-article-template/. Please note that xelatex is functionally required for this template/function.

Usage

article2(...)

templ_article2()

Arguments

...: Arguments to rmarkdown::pdf_document.

Details

If your version of TeX comes by way of Yihui Xie's tinytex, you'll want to additionally install the "xurl" library. Otherwise, you'll get a vague error about a missing LaTeX dependency. tinytex::tlmgr_install("xurl") should suffice. I thank Ian Adams and Cornelius Hennch for finding this issue and pointing to this solution.

Going forward, I recommend the Quarto version of this template for your projects. You can find that template here, named qarticle2:

https://github.com/svmiller/quarto-templates/

About YAML header fields

This section documents some of the YAML fields to know for this template. Much should've been carried over from my first article/manuscript template. Please yell at me/raise an issue on the Github repo if I didn't.

FIELD	DESCRIPTION
`name`	name of the author
`affiliation`	the affiliation of the author
`thanks`	A place to thank people for their input, identify corresponding author, etc.
`abstract`	include an abstract of the paper here
`keywords`	some keywords for the manuscript
`anonymous`	logical, defaults to `FALSE`. If `TRUE`, scrubs all identifying author info for peer review
`removetitleabstract`	logical, defaults to `FALSE`. If `TRUE`, removes title/abstract for peer review (if you'd like)
`appendix`	optional, but specifies appendix figure/table prefices
`endnotes`	logical, defaults to `FALSE`. If `TRUE`, makes R Markdown footnotes as endnotes
`pandocparas`	logical, defaults to `FALSE`. If `TRUE`, keeps Pandoc's default paragraph format
`acmsans`	logical, defaults to `FALSE`. If `TRUE`, better mimics ACM's use of sans fonts for section headers
`mainfont`	optional (I think?), but it's the main font to use with `xelatex`. I use `cochineal` here.
`sansfont`	optional, only necessary if `sansitup: TRUE`. Specifies sans font. I recommend Linux Biolinum or Libertinus Sans
`doublespacing`	optional, if anything is here to process, this will double-space the document.
`endfloat`	logical, defaults to `FALSE`. If `TRUE`, figures/tables moved to back of document with "Figure/Table about here" placeholder text. Observed only when `anonymous: TRUE` and depends on figure/table captions.