tuwien-assignment-template

An inofficial Latex template for TU Vienna assignments. Take a look at the example.

This Latex template aims to streamline the writing of digital assignments.

Why should I use this template?

Writing assignments isn't necessarily a joyful activity. Out of a need to reduce workload this template was written. Its purpose is not to be an efficient lightweight template but rather a fully loaded, plug-and-play, out of the box template. It provides additional commands to help specificly with assignments. The idea was that one can start working using this template, without worring about packages to import or settings to change.

How do I use this template?

Download the latest version of this template here. When using Overleaf press "New Project" > "Upload Project" and select the downloaded ZIP archive.

What can this template do?

This template comes with a sleek design that is kept closely to the originial Latex article style. It also provides environments for exercises and solutions. Which are conveniently numbered.

This template loads a bunch of other packages:

• geometry
• lmodern
• inputenc
• fontenc
• babel
• csquotes
• iflang
• ifthen
• parskip
• titling
• fancyhdr
• amsfonts
• amsmath
• amssymb
• mathtools
• amsthm
• cancel
• siunix
• microtype
• enumitem
• graphicx
• array
• xcolor
• fp
• booktabs
• tabularx
• xltabular
• nicematrix
• multirow
• makecell
• pgfkeys
• tikz
• varwidth
• float
• subcaption
• chngcntr
• hyperref
• glossaries
• glossaries-extra

Exercises and Solutions

exercise is an environment for the exercises, including the solutions. Exercises are numbered within a section. The idea is, that each section represents a singe exercise sheet. Inside of this exercise environment can multiple solution environments be declared. These are numbered within the parent exercise environment.

If you don't want to number the exercises according to the section, just use this macro:

\counterwithout{exercisecounter}{section}

There are also minute possibilities to customise these environments. Each exercise environment has the following keys:

• title the title of the exercise (default "Exercise")
• subtitle the subtitle of the exercise (default empty)
• points the points of the exercise
• points/show a boolean flag to indicate whether to show the points (default false)
• solution/title the title for the solution declared within the exercise (default "Solution")

Customization

If a specific solution counter should be set to a specific value, this can be done via the

\setcounter{solutioncounter}{x}

macro, where x is the new starting number for the counter.

Note: that the following solutions will also be affected.

If the numbering style of the solutions within an exercise environment should be changed, this currently cannot be done via keys, but has to be done manually via the command:

\renewcommand{\thesolutioncounter}{(\roman{solutioncounter})}

at the top inside of the corresponding exercise environment. In this case, the enumeration will be lowercase roman numerals in braces.

Math

The packages amsmath, amssymb, mathtools and amsthm are already supplied via the template. Writing proofs and theorems can be done easily via the environments provided by the amsthm package. Take a look at this guide for more details.

Moreover some math-related commands are changed or added:

command	has starred version	description
\ceil{}	yes
\floor{}	yes
\abs{}	yes
\norm{}	yes
\mset{}	yes	creates a simple set
\msetmid{}{}	yes	creates a simple set with a mid symbol
\mtuple{}	yes	creates a simple tuple
\appliesto	no	creates a comma with spacing
\definedas	no	creates a colon with an equal sign
\ltrue	no	alias for verum
\lfalse	no	alias for falsum

environment	description
conditions	is an environment to list mathematical conditions or explanations

For more details regarding Latex in general take a look at this cheatsheet.

Language

The package babel is used for language support. With the standard being Englisch. Additionally the package csquotes is imported, for correct quotes based on the primary language selected via babel.

You can change the language associated with the document by changing this line right after the begin of the document:

\selectlanguage{english}

The possible arguments for this are english and naustrian.

Graphics

The standard graphicspath is set to ./img/. This can be changed with the

\graphicspath{{<path>}}

command.

Header

The author, matrikelnr, date, title and subtitle are optional, and default to an empty string.

Changelog

0.9.0

• add amsfonts package
• add cancel package
• add tikzmark library

0.8.0

• add lmodern package
• add glossaries package
• add glossaries-extra package
• add autostyle option to csquotes
• add hypersetup for the PDF author and PDF title among other things
• bump TikZ library arrows to arrows.meta
• add TiKZ library backgrounds, calc, decorations.pathmorphing, decorations.pathreplacing and matrix
• add custom lists enumerateinline and enumeratekeywords
• rename command \mtupel to \mtuple
• remove link coloring
• remove listing colors

0.7.0

• adjust spacing for solution and exercise environments
• add labels for solution and exercise environments of the form sol:<index> and exe:<index> respectively
• remove listings package, for a better support of the previous settings take a look at moderncode
• remove command \lstinputpath
• remove tikz style called arrow
• add inline option to enumitem
• set thousands separator for siunix to a whitespace

0.6.0

• add \subtitle command
• set defaults for \title, \subtitle, \author and \matrikelnr to be empty
• update exercise environments
• add subtitle key to exercise environments
• add points and points/show key to environments

0.5.1

• adjust spacing in \msetmid
• \msetmid* scales mid

0.5.0

• refactor commands:
  • abs
  • norm
  • mset
  • msetmid
  • mtupel
  • These commands now provide a consistent syntax for the starred versions. The starred versions scale vertically.
  • mtupel is now nestable
  • definedas now looks better
• add commands:
  • ceil
  • floor
• rename commands:
  • mappliesto to appliesto
  • mdefinedas to definedas
• remove commands:
  • \msetmidsa
• add latex indent config file to provide proper formatting of the conditions environment. To use this local config, make sure to use the -l switch. Read more here.
• add siunix package

0.4.0

• fix conditions being to wide
• add optional argument to conditions as the seperator, usable with \sep
• add packages nicematrix, xltabular and multirow
• new math commands mappliesto and mdefinedas
• remove array stretch
• new itemize environment for tables tabitemize

0.3.0

• add \msetmidsa command, a standalone mid symbol for the \mset{} and \mset*{} commands
• fix spacing error when no author is given

0.2.0

• add \msetmid command
• fix wrong primary language set
• add option to specify language for the document
• make \mset robust

0.1.2

• add \mset*
• removed \msetempty and \mtupelempty
• \mtupel now scales the angled brackets according to its elements

0.1.1

• add listings file path
• listings now show linebreaks resulted from long lines

0.1.0 first version