Laboratory Notebook Daily Entry

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A laboratory notebook daily entry on A4 with an experiment ID header, numbered observations, and an analysis and interpretation box for results such as conductivity against baseline.

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Document class
article [11pt, a4paper]
Compiles with
pdfLaTeX
Pages in the compiled PDF
6
Bibliography
BibTeX
Files
12 files: 10 .tex, 1 .bib, 1 image
Packages
  • fontenc
  • inputenc
  • lmodern
  • microtype
  • geometry
  • xcolor
  • amsmath
  • amssymb
  • booktabs
  • tabularx
  • array
  • multirow
  • colortbl
  • graphicx
  • tikz
  • tcolorbox
  • enumitem
  • fancyhdr
  • lastpage
  • fontawesome5
  • hyperref
  • parskip
  • calc
  • etoolbox
  • ragged2e
  • soul
The preamble of main.tex, from \documentclass to \begin{document}.
\documentclass[11pt, a4paper]{article}

\input{preamble}

% ── Document metadata ──────────────────────────────────────
\hypersetup{
  pdftitle={Laboratory Notebook --- Daily Entry},
  pdfauthor={Nexa Research Institute},
  pdfsubject={Experimental Record},
  pdfkeywords={lab notebook, experiment, research, Nexa},
}

% Lets TeX stretch interword space on a line it cannot otherwise break, instead of
% running past the margin. Affects only lines that would overflow.
\setlength{\emergencystretch}{3em}

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What does the Laboratory Notebook Daily Entry template load?

It uses the article class (options: 11pt, a4paper), builds with pdfLaTeX, and loads 26 packages, including fontenc, inputenc, lmodern, microtype, geometry, xcolor, amsmath and amssymb.

How does Laboratory Notebook Daily Entry handle references?

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