Compact LaTeX Layout for Summaries

summary.tex is a LaTeX template originally created to quickly typeset summaries of lecture content in a very compact three-column layout.

It also contains a variety of commands that make typesetting summaries with many formulae less of a hassle.

Combined Short and Verbose Summary

The verbose toggle makes it possible to mark verbose (potentially less important) sections in the summary as follows: \verbose{Less important text}

This is particularly useful if you are allowed to bring a summary to an exam with a maximum number of pages. Instead of writing a long and a short summary separately as part of your learning process, write only one summary and mark as many sections as less relevant until the page limit is satisfied.

Setting the verbose toggle in the document preamble determines what should happen with verbose sections during rendering. Use \settoggle{verbose}{true} to render sections marked as verbose in gray color. Alternatively, use \settoggle{verbose}{true} to completely hide verbose sections.

Bold-face Latin and Greek Letters

The template makes it easy to typeset formulae with many vectors and matrices, which commonly require bold-face Latin and Greek letters.

The template supports all lowercase and uppercase letters of the Latin and Greek alphabets with the prefix \b. For example, use \bA instead of {\mathbf{A}} and \bsigma instead of {\boldsymbol \sigma}

Based on snippet by Alexey Malistov.

Labels

Use labels to highlight stuff that is still unclear or to refer to slides, exercises or the literature. Labels are typeset with a red or blue background, denoting unclear content or a reference, respectively. Use the following commands to create a label:

\unclear
\seeslides
\seeexercise
\seeliterature

You can supply custom text as an option parameter to each of the above commands, for instance \unclear[Proof].

Labels only appear in the verbose variant of the summary.

Example

See the example PDF generated from the summary.tex template.