diff --git a/flake.nix b/flake.nix
index d87751d..b5262ba 100644
--- a/flake.nix
+++ b/flake.nix
@@ -1,10 +1,17 @@
 { description = "My collection of flake templates";
   outputs = { self }: {
     templates = {
+
+      latex = {
+        path = ./latex;
+        description = "A fairly basic latex flake";
+      };
+
       trivial = {
         path = ./trivial;
         description = "What I consider to be the bare minimum flake";
       };
+
     };
     defaultTemplate = self.templates.trivial;
   };
diff --git a/latex/.envrc b/latex/.envrc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3550a30
--- /dev/null
+++ b/latex/.envrc
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+use flake
diff --git a/latex/.gitignore b/latex/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..726d2d6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/latex/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+result
+.direnv
diff --git a/latex/flake.nix b/latex/flake.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0d281dd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/latex/flake.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+# inspired by https://flyx.org/nix-flakes-latex/
+{ description = "A latex template";
+  inputs = {
+    nixpkgs.url = github:nixos/nixpkgs/nixos-23.05;
+    flake-utils.url = github:numtide/flake-utils;
+  };
+  outputs = { self, nixpkgs, flake-utils}:
+  flake-utils.lib.eachDefaultSystem (system:
+  let pkgs = import nixpkgs { inherit system; };
+      texInput = "main";
+      # If you're not lazy, figure out what dependencies you need.
+      # If you are lazy, just take the full scheme.
+      tex = (pkgs.texlive.combine {
+        inherit (pkgs.texlive) scheme-full;
+        #scheme-basic latex-bin latexmk;
+      });
+  in {
+    packages = rec {
+      document = pkgs.stdenvNoCC.mkDerivation rec {
+        pname   = throw "put document name here";
+        version = "0.0";
+        src = ./src;
+        buildInputs = with pkgs; [
+          tex
+        ];
+        buildPhase = ''
+          mkdir -p .cache/texmf-var
+          env TEXMFHOME=.cache TEXMFVAR=.cache/texmf-var \
+            latexmk -interaction=nonstopmode -pdf -lualatex \
+            ${texInput}.tex
+        '';
+        installPhase = ''
+        mkdir -p $out
+        cp ${texInput}.pdf $out/
+        '';
+      };
+      default = document;
+    };
+
+    devShells.default = pkgs.mkShell {
+      buildInputs = with pkgs; [
+        texlab # my language server of choice
+        tex
+      ];
+    };
+
+  });
+}
diff --git a/latex/src/main.tex b/latex/src/main.tex
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..70dba00
--- /dev/null
+++ b/latex/src/main.tex
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+\documentclass[a4paper,openany,twoside]{memoir}
+\usepackage[english]{babel}
+\usepackage[a-3u]{pdfx}
+\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
+\usepackage{hyperref}
+\usepackage{lipsum}
+\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
+\author{Marty Sluijtman}
+\title{On the Wonders of Bikes}
+\begin{document}
+\maketitle{}
+\tableofcontents{}
+
+\end{document}
diff --git a/trivial/flake.nix b/trivial/flake.nix
index df5b99d..a59be97 100644
--- a/trivial/flake.nix
+++ b/trivial/flake.nix
@@ -10,10 +10,12 @@
     packages = rec {
       default = throw "put derivation information here";
     };
+
     devShells.default = pkgs.mkShell {
       buildInputs = with pkgs; [
         (throw "put packages here")
       ];
     };
+
   });
 }