The neoschool class

Preconfigured profiles

The profile=<name> option automatically configures a coherent set of options. Each profile sets a theme, a title layout (titlelayout), box styles, and visual parameters.

\documentclass[profile=academic]{neoschool}

Loaded packages

The class automatically loads: adforn, adjustbox, algpseudocode, bookmark, calc, changepage, colortbl, cuted, enumitem, environ, etoolbox, fontawesome5, forest, iftex, kvoptions, lastpage, marginnote, mathtools, multicol, nccmath, needspace, pdftexcmds, pgffor, pgfplots, pifont, qrcode, scrlayer-scrpage, setspace, silence, siunitx, tabularray, tasks, tcolorbox, tikz, tikzpagenodes, tikzsymbols, ulem, wrapfig, xcolor, xhfill, xkeyval, xsim, xstring.

Optional packages

Configuration options

Language

• english, french, german: activates translations and locale conventions.
• nofrenchlist: disables em-dashes for French lists.
• frenchlistaspar: treats list items as paragraphs.
• frenchmath: upright capitals in math mode (French convention).

Typography (LuaLaTeX/XeLaTeX)

• mainface=Name: main serif font.
• sansface=Name: sans-serif font (headings).
• monoface=Name: monospaced font (code).
• mathface=Name: math font.
• ...scale=factor: scaling (e.g. mainfacescale=1.0).
• sfbody: sets body text to sans-serif.

Page layout

• margin=dim: side margins (default 1.5cm).
• vspacing=factor: global vertical spacing (0.25 – 2.0).
• compacttoc, twocoltoc, monotoc: compact / two-column / primary-color-only table of contents.
• fullheader: enables the full running header.
• nofooter, pageonlyfooter: footer controls.
• Imposition: 2a5toa4, 2a4toa3, bookleta5 (booklet), etc.

Overall appearance

Color themes (theme=...)

56 themes are available. Each theme defines four colors: a primary color (headings, sections, definitions), a secondary color (theorems), a tertiary color (exercises), and a structural color (neutral elements such as remarks and inline code). The default theme is oxford.

• Blues: arctic, azure, frost, glacier, marine, midnight, oceanic, oxford.
• Greens: cambridge, eton, flora, forest, garden, ivy, moss, sage, taiga, tundra.
• Warm tones: bordeaux, cardinal, crimson, harvard, hearth, saffron, terra.
• Purples / pinks: amethyst, cosmos, dusk, mulberry, neon, opera, orchid, peony, velvet, vivid.
• Neutrals / browns: coffee, heritage, ink (default), library, mahogany, manor, mist, retro, rhodium, slate, study, tweed, velours.
• Multicolor: <Multicolor: aurora, cyprus, jewel, lagoon, night, royal, trinity, woodland.

Color modes

• print: black-and-white output for printing.
• unicolor: uses the primary color for every environment.

Box appearance

Document styles

Title layout (titlelayout)

• Exams: exam (full), shortexam, mockexam.
• Assessments: eval, evalicons, evalgrade, evaliconsgrade, shorteval.
• Classic: default, titlebox, tighttitle, onlytitle, shorttitle, shortlesson, minimal, frame.
• Design: band, banner, bar, bauhaus, blocks, book, bristol, brush, bubbles, champagne, circles, cloud, confetti, flow, geometric, grid, magazine, memphis, notion, particles, simplenotion, spine, stream, tech, wave.

Header configuration

\neoheader{
  type = {Unit Test},
  school = {Springfield High School},
  level = {AP Calculus BC},
  duration = {2h},
  calculator = {exam}, % true/false/exam
  leftcontent = {\faFlask}
}

Math environments

Styles (thmstyle): tag (default), bar, block, tile, fold, plain, frame, curve, sticker, pastel, raw.

Environments: theorem, lemma, corollary, conjecture, proposition, property, properties, definition, definitions, method, activity, application, example, examples, remark, remarks, proof.

\begin{definition}[title=Prime number, label=def:prime]
  An integer is prime if it has exactly two divisors.
\end{definition}

Numbering options: sectionthmcounter, sharedthmcounter, thmgroupcounter.

Exercises and solutions

Built on the xsim package.

Exercise styles (exstyle)

Boxed: capsule (default), block, bar, tile, fold, plain, frame, curve, sticker, pastel, card, capsule-outline.

Badge: badge, badge-outline, digit, digit-outline, digit-inline, digit-outline-inline, counter, counter-outline, counter-inline, counter-outline-inline.

Linear: line, line-outline, line-circle, line-circle-outline.

Special: inline, shell, section, subsection, item, rule, separator.

Global options

• answers: shows solutions after each exercise.
• answersonly: shows only the solutions.
• solrotate: prints the solution upside-down (180° rotation).
• solstyle: inline (default), dots, lines, box.

Example

\begin{exercise}[points=3, subtitle={Derivatives}]
  Find the derivative of $f(x)=x^2$.
\end{exercise}
\begin{solution}
  $f'(x)=2x$.
\end{solution}

Multiple choice

\begin{choices}(2) % 2 columns
  \choice[\correct] True
  \choice False
\end{choices}

Code listings

Uses listings (default) or minted (class option minted).

Options

• codestyle=...: shadow (default), plain, line, lines, bar, frame.
• codewidth=dim: width.
• centeredcode: horizontal centering.

\begin{code}{python}[Factorial]
def fact(n):
    return 1 if n<=1 else n*fact(n-1)
\end{code}

Pseudocode

The pseudocode environment (based on algpseudocode) with automatic keyword translation.

Admonitions

Callout boxes. Environments: note, info, warning, important, tip, reminder, summary, toolbox, method, activity.

Styles (adstyle): soft (default), modern, material, classic, professional, minimal.

Content layout

Layout tools

• \splitcontent[ratio]{left}{right}: two-column split.
• \begin{sidebyside} ... \tcblower ... \end{sidebyside}: side-by-side boxes.
• \textwithimage{width}{scale}{text}{image}.
• \withqrcode{url}{text}.

Grids and paper

• \grid{width}{height}: 5 mm grid.
• \frenchgrid{width}{height}: Seyès ruling.
• \notebook: notebook page background.
• \gridfill: fills the page with a grid.

Simple boxes

• \neobox{...}, \neocolorbox{...}, \inlinebox{...}.

Grading and assessment

• \gradingstrip[20]: full grading strip.
• \mrk{pts}: margin point markers.
• \answerfield[width]{lines}: colored answer area.
• \answerframe{lines}: framed answer area.
• \vardots[length]: dotted line.
• \competencies{Skill1 \\ Skill2}: competency table.
• Symbols: \cmark (✓), \xmark (✗), \unchecked, \done.

Special tools

• Math: \mhl{expr} (highlight), \mathbox{expr} (box), \vectt, \Oij (with the apmep option).
• MathGrid: environment for aligning equations on a grid.
• Trees: neotree environment (based on forest).
• Notes: \tdnote{...}, \boxnote{...}.
• Logos: \AILogo, \NoAILogo.