From 57f11d7cb1914705bdc4b87e79301f97a2d17171 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arthur Grisel-Davy <agriseld@uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Mon, 2 May 2022 13:10:12 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] prep work

---
 .gitignore | 11 +++++++++++
 readme.md  | 22 +++++++++++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 .gitignore

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..16733f2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+# Latex files
+*.dvi
+*.fls
+*.out
+*.aux
+*.fdb_latexmk
+*.log
+*.pdf
+
+# vim swap file
+*.swp
diff --git a/readme.md b/readme.md
index 4d28ba9..9e2d0a8 100644
--- a/readme.md
+++ b/readme.md
@@ -6,5 +6,25 @@ wget -qO- "https://yihui.org/tinytex/install-bin-unix.sh" | sh
 ```
 
 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}
+```