prep work

.gitignore

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+# Latex files
+*.dvi
+*.fls
+*.out
+*.aux
+*.fdb_latexmk
+*.log
+*.pdf
+
+# vim swap file
+*.swp

readme.md

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 ```
 
 packages:
-```tlmgr install `cat requirements.txt` ```
+```
+tlmgr install `cat requirements.txt` 
+```
 
+## Usage:
+Save `.svg` files from latex and convert them before compiling the document with 
+```
+inkscape -D -z file=images/plop.svg export-pdf=images/image.pdf --export-latex
+```
+For converting all hte figures:
+```
+find images/. -name "*.svg" -exec inkscape -D -z file=images/{} --export-latex \;
+```
+
+Include the figure in hte document with 
+```
+\begin{figure}
+    \centering
+    \def\svgwidth{\columnwidth}
+    \input{image.pdf_tex}
+\end{figure}
+```