Custom Label Templates

Overview

Obviously, everyone wants to be able to customize their label templates! Why go through the bother of installing and running BarnebyLives if you cannot do that! So here are a couple examples of tweaking around with the default skeleton to get some labels which will… Look familiar.

Note that the labels are made using LaTeX, an awesome guide for LaTeX (relevant to the level you will be using it at) is Overleaf.org, and check the links in the side bar too!

In this vignette, I will show you what the three default templates look like, and then we will make some slight customizations to them.

Examples

As a reminder, the standard template looks like this.

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Another included template, for the Seeds of Success program, looks like this.

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And our final default template looks like this

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Modifications

All of the labels can be copied from their original locations using the following code

If you want to customize one, be sure to keep it in a ‘local’ location on your computer which will not be overwritten when you update the package, which may happen without your knowledge if this becomes a dependency to another package (which seems unlikely to me). Once the file is in that location it can easily be opened for safe editing.

One final note is that LaTeX uses spaces, or ’ ’ for controlling content. In particular two spaces will force the text onto a new line. It is hard for me illustrate these in the examples, but I’ll try and do my best to mention them when relevant.

For this example we will focus on the final default template, which is a pretty middle of the road design.

First let’s change the line that controls the size of the font FOR …

Now we can change some alignment

We may also decide that we don’t care about presenting all of this information on the label