Steve's 2nd Syllabus Template — syllabus2 • stevetemplates

This is the R Markdown template I use for my syllabi at Stockholm University. Classes are structured a lot differently here, so a lot of what I'd like to do or aspire to do has to change.

Usage

syllabus2(...)

templ_syllabus2()

Arguments

...: Arguments to rmarkdown::pdf_document.

About YAML header fields

FIELD	DESCRIPTION
`title`	Title of the class
`author`	Name(s) of the professor(s)
`term`	The term of the class (e.g. Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Summer 2025)
`dates`	A basic date range for the course (e.g. Feb. 20 - March 21)
`fontawesome`	Logical, defaults to TRUE, for use of Font Awesome icons
`email`	The email for the "course responsible" professor. It's a thing here.
`web`	Class website. Technically optional, but you really should use it.
`office`	Your office location. Technically optional, but you really should use it.
`one-teacher`	Specify this argument in the YAML as TRUE for classes with one professor.
`two-teachers`	Specify this argument in the YAML as TRUE for classes with two professors. Has implications for formatting.
`n-teachers`	Specify this argument in the YAML as TRUE for classes with more than two professors. Has implications for formatting.

Additional Comments

XeLaTeX is imposed by a standard use in RStudio. The one-/two-/n-teacher(s) hack is inspired by hackery in article3 in this same package. Specify only one of those.

The Font Awesome package in LaTeX is fontawesome5.

The "author" argument should be used as if there were potentially multiple professors (even if there is just the one). You'll see what I mean in the skeleton file.