I'm looking for a professional LaTeX template for either a statement or purpose/personal statement/statement of intent/etc. for a general graduate application. Most of the ones I have seen thus far have been relatively plain, and while I don't need a template that is horribly visually abrasive, one with a bit more style wouldn't be bad. Are there any good repositories for essays of this nature or does anybody from the community have a particularly well-crafted template of this type?
[Tex/LaTex] LaTeX Template for Graduate School Essays
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Do you have an example you're emulating that you can point out? Googling "latex fax cover sheet" found this page with a plain TeX template but I'm not sure if the template classifies as "rather nice."
This might be a good application of ConTeXt here.
The best method for class notes was developed by E.W. Djikstra and hung in his office for many years.1 In his memory here is a short hack to produce notes, in his style, using the LaTeX standard book class. It is a bit rough around the edges but can give you an idea for further development.
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\makeatletter
\pagestyle{plain}
%% Redefine chapter
\def\@makechapterhead#1{%
\vspace*{10\p@}%
{\parindent \z@ \centering \reset@font
{\huge\hfill\hfill \bfseries EWD-\thechapter \\
\hfill\hfill\huge \bfseries #1\par\nobreak}
\par\nobreak
\vspace*{2\p@}%
\vskip 100\p@
}}
\begin{document}
\chapter{The Real Numbers}
\lipsum[1-2]
\chapter{The Imaginary Numbers}
\section{Test section}
\lipsum[1-2]
\end{document}
1 In his office Edsger had a pencil dangling from a string with a sign pointing to it saying "Word Processor" (See vanenmden).
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Had a similar issue myself when looking for CV templates. I came across this site, which was quite helpful and the .tex files are easily modifiable as most of the examples at the bottom of the page are using the letter class.
http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/help/faqs/latex/letters