Makoto Technical Report

A technical business report template featuring a two-column layout best suited to dense technical content.

Description

This business report template is tailored to technical reports which are more dense in terms of content. Its defining feature is a two-column layout similar to that of an academic article. This layout makes reading easier and allows more information to be neatly packed into less pages. The layout can be changed to full width or three-column, as shown in the template.

The template starts with a clean title section with entries for important report, author and company information. A table of contents follows, showing top level sections only because this is not a lengthy document. The content proper then begins. Four levels of sections allow content in the report to be extensively broken up as needed, and section numbers can be removed for shorter reports by toggling a class option. Within the example sections in the template, examples of virtually all common report elements are represented, including: font changes, quotations, tables, figures, lists, citations, links, equations, code, bibliography and appendices.

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Authorship

This template was created by Vel.

Current Version

v1.0 (December 5, 2024)

License

This template is licensed under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license. Click here to see what this license means for your use of the template.

Usage Guide

Compilation

This template needs to be compiled with XeLaTeX due to the custom fonts it uses. It contains a line in the header that should make this happen automatically, but if it doesn’t for you, set your LaTeX editor to compile with XeLaTeX each time you open the template. Alternatively, if you compile via the command line, use the xelatex command instead of pdflatex.

The bibliography needs to be compiled with the biber engine. You can set your LaTeX editor to use the biber engine automatically, or compile from the command line with biber template, in the template directory.