Aaron's Blank Paper Template

This format is overly complicated but works well. To set it up, change:

1. Rename paper.tex and paper.bib to something relevant for your project.
2. Edit Makefile, line 1, set SOURCES = paper.tex to your main file.
3. Edit paper.tex, (which should now be renamed), near the end change paper in \bibliography{IEEEabrv,paper} to your bib file name
4. Then you can start changing the title, authors, etc in the new paper.tex, rename the sections (e.g. 2-body.tex, though update paper.tex if you do), etc.
5. You may also want to set per-author editing notes in paper.tex, to replace the examples \tom and \sidd.
6. I prefer not to upload .pdf and .ps files that are created, but there may be other pdfs that should be. So add the output file name (replacing paper.pdf) to .gitignore

Structure:

• Main file is whatever replaced paper.tex, no actual text should show up here
• Included .tex files per-section, i.e. 1-introduction.tex
• Figures go in figures/, and if exporting from inkscape use the .eps_tex option which this Makefile will look for

Useful commands:

• make - Regular PDF creation
• make clean - Remove all outputs (PDFs, etc)
• make noclean - Create PDF and keep all intermediate files
• make check - Check for special characters, repeated words, and a few other things
• make arxiv - Create a folder and zip suitable for uplaoding to arXiv.org (experimental)