 Alright, so I'm making this video to show off my set up for compiling law tech documents. And the reason I'm doing that is I've just become that guy who won't shut up about his set up in front of, you know, all my colleagues. So I think it's about time for me to get it off my chest and, you know, we just, you know, just never think about it again. So I don't have the best set up in the universe, but I'm pretty happy with what I got. So I'll go ahead and show you what we're dealing with. So this is my main law tech folder, and I have templates in here. So I have an article template. I have a beamer template. I have a handout template. And what I can do, I'm in Ranger, my file manager. And what I can do is say I have a shortcut N-A, and that stands for new article. And I can name a new article. Let's call it new.tx. And what that does is it just copies my article template to this new file. So let's go ahead and open it up. Let me maximize that. So here we are in this document. So you'll notice that I've called all the packages I usually need. And in all the places I'm going to write, like the title area, abstract area, main text area, I have these, you know, brackets inside of parentheses. So every time I press space twice, the cursor will move to the next one, and it didn't put me in a certain mode. So I can say like article title, press space, space again. So this is an abstract space, space again. Here is the main text. So I don't really have to think, I don't have to key out of everything. I can just, you know, let it be. So some people have their documents auto compile. I have compiling linked to a shortcut. So now the document's compiled. It's in the same folder. I have another shortcut that will open that up. So here's our document. Let's throw some, like, blind text in there. Just, you know, to make it look like we're actually doing something. So here's our document. So I work in linguistics, and I have a bunch of macros set up for doing different linguistics things. For example, let's say you might want to make an example sentence to illustrate something. So I just type in my macro. This is an example sentence, and it already makes the syntax. And when I'm done, space, space, get in the main text area again. We can recompile it. And you'll see I will have my example sentence. Another thing that's usually pretty hard to do if you're using, you know, word or something. Well, it's impossible to do if you're doing word functionally. And it's pretty difficult in law tech is getting the syntax right from glossing examples. But I have macros set up that will give me exactly what I need. So this is like a multilingual gloss. So let's say, hoquest, exemplum, latinum. There's the example sentence. This is example Latin. There's our word-to-word gloss. This is a Latin example, blah, blah, blah. Here's the main text. We can recompile this. And you will see that we have our example sentence right here. All three line glossed perfectly. Everything's lined up. Don't have to worry about it. So I have that all short-cut it up. I also have more conventional things, like I want some bold text or emphatic text. No prob. So I can do the basic formatting things pretty easily. Or let's say I want to make some kind of environment I have with double cursors. I can do things like this, center. So now we have this is centered, text, et cetera, et cetera, blah, blah, blah, blah. Here we are again. And you'll also notice at the very end of this document, I have a certain bibliography file called. And this is the bibliography file I keep all my sources in. So I can actually refer to them in real time whenever I want. So C, I don't know who we're going to cite. Let's say Chomsky, 2005, or, you know, Cinque 99 for more. And this automatically gives me these references. You'll see that everything, you just get it for free. You don't have to work on it. So to show you my bibliography file, I got everything I've ever cited in LaTeX, some, 1,300 lines of them. And I have them all sorted by the first author and the two digits of the year. So that's all I have to remember to cite anything. It's pretty easy to pound out a paper just like remembering things like this. So it's really efficient. So anyway, let me show you my VMRC just to give you an idea what it looks like. So I have all of these different LaTeX shortcuts for emphasis, bolding, italics, citations, glossing, lists, tabular environments, all this different stuff. And so I don't really end up writing much of the syntax in any of my LaTeX documents. I also have shortcuts for math mode for if I need to make some IPA symbols, it's pretty easy. I have shortcuts for those. And all the shortcuts work pretty much the same way. When I'm in insert mode, I just press semicolon and then R, that'll give me reference or a semicolon T, that'll give me a tabular environment. And that works because you never really put letters after a semicolon. So let's say we want a tabular environment, it doesn't have to look fancy, some kind of table. And yeah, I don't really have to do any kind of thinking to do the syntax. And when I'm done, just double space out. This is the main text. So yeah, it's like, you get it all for free. So you will notice it is doing a bunch of compiling that's sort of a pain. I might get rid of that, I might actually have it compile in the background. The reason it's taking so long is because it's actually doing all the big text stuff at the same time. So I might change that around a little bit. And I will say I also have HTML shortcuts. So when I'm in an HTML file, I'll have a shortcut for bolding and all that stuff. So I don't have to write that either. And I even have shortcuts for adding BibTek entries. So anyway, that's my general setup. Video lasted a little longer than I want. But anyway, that gives you an idea. So thanks for watching.