LaTeX is a program (and, in a sense, a language) used in academia to create documents with a professional, consistent format and design. LaTeX usually becomes relevant for you by the time you write your thesis at the latest, and occasionally also in seminars when writing papers. You can also write submissions in LaTeX, although this is usually not required, and you may, for example, use Typst or WYSIWYG editors such as LibreOffice or Word.
To make your entry into the world of LaTeX as smooth as possible, we provide a few templates for you to use in your exercise sheets, seminar papers, homework and other documents. And in case you’re writing your Bachelor’s or Master Thesis, we have a template for that as well!
Currently, we do not have many templates, so any contributions are appreciated. If you want to contribute a template that you think fellow students can benefit from, please feel free to contact us or submit a pull request in the repository linked above.
Hint: If you want to get started quickly, you can use Overleaf. After registering (best use your university email address), you can easily import the template using the green overleaf links below. Make sure that in Overleaf’s menu, the “main document” is set to main.tex!
Templates for exercise sheets
SaarTex – Our Thesis Template
SaarTex is our bilingual template Bachelor and Master thesis as well as other larger works. This template is ideal for students of Computer Science and Mathematics and includes the most important elements (customisable title page, table of contents, sworn declaration, attachment etc.) of a thesis while also incorporating typographical best practices.
Perfect for getting started with writing quickly.
Typst
Typst is a relatively new “alternative” to LaTeX that features a syntax more familiar to programmers and tends to compile faster than LaTeX. Typst is gradually gaining traction in academia and is now being used by a few departments at SIC for theses and papers.
Unfortunately, we don’t have any Typst templates yet, but we recommend browsing the Typst Universe. There’re owl-lst-thesis for theses and tracl for papers from the Department of Language Science and Technology that could serve as inspiration. If you have any templates you’d like to share, please feel free to contact us.
Templates of the University
The university also provides templates (including LaTeX and PowerPoint) for presentations, posters and other documents in its corporate design on its website.