How to use the MDPI LaTex template in Rmarkdown

Publishing Your Results
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Hi,
I have to share a paper using this format for Animals:
The following zip folder contains all files for preparing a manuscript in LaTeX. Inside this template folder is “template.tex” (the template file where the paper is typeset) and a subfolder “Definitions”, which contains files required for typesetting (class file, logos, bibliography style files, and further definitions).
https://www.mdpi.com/data/MDPI_template.zip?v=20220815
But I don’t know how to import it in Rmarkdown to generate the pdf using their style.

Thank you,
Filippo

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Hello @Flm ,
have a look at https://bookdown.org/yihui/rmarkdown/pdf-document.html#custom-templates-1

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Thanks for the reply, I tried getting various errors. leaving out Rmarkdown, I tried to open their model in R and generate the PDF from latex, even in that case errors are generated (using overleaf.com instead works correctly). I think there is something in the file that R doesn't like, I'll do it manually with Overleaf at this point.

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My proposed 'solution' indeed does not work for me.
I had expected the template to be a file that only contains the header (preambule ?) of the final tex file.
The template.tex file in the zip file seems to be a complete tex file that you have to change manually: e.g. by copying your text and tables.
I also tried to compile the template.tex file directly by TexWorks
but then I get errors like 'fancyhdr.sty' not found'.
In Rmarkdown I use tinytex that resolves such errors most of the time.

Can you maybe change the title of this issue in something more specific like "How to use the MDPI LaTex template in Rmarkdown"?
That could attract the attention of someone with practical knowledge of this environment :grinning:

EDIT: a search on the internet for rmarkdown MDPI template looks promising to me.

EDIT2 : I could finally get it compiled in TexWorks by using tinytex to resolve the missing packages with statements like:

tinytex::parse_install(text = "! LaTeX Error: File `fancyhdr.sty' not found." )

That proves that the template file is indeed a full document.
And probably there is a way to use tinytex to compile it directly, but I always use tinytex via Rmarkdown. But I will check how to do that.

EDIT3: for completeness sake. Compile in tinytex can be done with

tinytex::latexmk("template.tex")
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Thank you, I’ll search it!

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MDPI is among the format we have in rticles package which is made to create journal's article with rmarkdown

Could be of interest to you

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Hi @cderv, thank you for reply.
I had already tried using rticles and I think something is broken in MDPI template: as soon as the template is selected and knit is pressed, execution stops.

processing file: Untitled.Rmd
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  ordinary text without R code


/Applications/RStudio.app/Contents/MacOS/quarto/bin/pandoc +RTS -K512m -RTS Untitled.knit.md --to latex --from markdown+autolink_bare_uris+tex_math_single_backslash --output Untitled.tex --lua-filter /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.2/Resources/library/rmarkdown/rmarkdown/lua/pagebreak.lua --lua-filter /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.2/Resources/library/rmarkdown/rmarkdown/lua/latex-div.lua --self-contained --template /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.2/Resources/library/rticles/rmarkdown/templates/mdpi/resources/template.tex --highlight-style tango --pdf-engine pdflatex --natbib 
output file: Untitled.knit.md

! Undefined control sequence.
l.440 \foreach
               \x in {A, ..., Z}{% 

Errore: LaTeX failed to compile Untitled.tex. See https://yihui.org/tinytex/r/#debugging for debugging tips. See Untitled.log for more info.
Esecuzione interrotta

Thanks for your work, Filippo

EDIT:
this is the log

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:thinking: I'll try to have a look

I am seing now that it may be out of date and PR not yet complete

and another issue

Sorry I mislead you!

This template probably need a big update - rticles formats are mainly community maintained for now. I'll try to have a go at it next time I'll work on rticles.

In the meantime, if you're willing to help you can contribute to improve the template.

Overall you can follow what has been done in rticles for the MDPI format as you would need to do the same with the new LaTeX template.

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Ok! Thank you,
Filippo

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