sshrc-insight: A LaTeX class for SSHRC Insight Grant proposals

Overview

The sshrc-insight LaTeX class facilitates the preparation of funding proposals for the Insight Grants program of Canada's Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). It has the following key features:

• Formats the proposal according to the SSHRC's specifications.

• Allows parts of the proposal to be compiled into separate PDFs to

attach to the appropriate places in the online application form.

• Alternatively, allows the proposal to be compiled into a single PDF

in order to facilitate the writing and pre-submission reviewing process.

• Ensures that citation numbering remains consistent regardless

whether the proposal is compiled as separate PDFs or a single PDF.

• Provides character counts for long-answer form fields.

• Supports preparation of proposals in either English or French.

• Compatible with pdflatex, xelatex, and lualatex.

Building and installing

To build the class, run the file sshrc-insight.ins through latex or pdflatex and then copy the resulting .cls file into a directory searched by LaTeX.

To generate the documentation, run the file sshrc-insight.dtx through pdflatex.

The .tex files built along with the class are the template proposal. Copy them to a separate directory and edit them as desired. generate the proposal as a single PDF, run the file proposal.tex though pdflatex (or xelatex or lualatex) and biber until all the references are resolved. To generate separate PDFs for the various parts of the proposal, use the same procedure on the other .tex files. Note that proposal.tex must be compiled before the other files that use citation commands.

Development

sshrc-insight was written and is maintained by Tristan Miller.

For now, the source code is hosted on GitHub at https://github.com/logological/sshrc-insight. There you will also find an issue tracker for reporting bugs and feature requests.

Licence

The sshrc-insight class is distributed under the conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3c of this license or (at your option) any later version.