PhD thesis template

A LuaLaTeX PhD thesis template for Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Bioengineering Department.

Author(s)

• Asier Marcos Vidal [email protected]
• Later minor changes, readme and extra features : Pedro M. Gordaliza [email protected]

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Features

• Conforms to the Student Registry PhD dissertation guidelines and PhD guidelines

• Supports LuaLaTeX, Available in Overleaf

• Adaptive Title Page: Title page adapts to title length

• [] Title page with both College and University crests.

• [] Print / On-line version: Different layout and hyper-referencing styles

• Pre-defined and custom fonts (Times / Fourier / Latin Modern / ancient greek) with math support

• Supports system fonts (LuaLaTeX)

• [] Pre-defined and custom bibliography style support (authoryear / numbered / custom)

• [] Custom page styles: 3 Different Header / Footer styles

• Pre-defined and custom margin size

• A separate abstract with thesis title and author name, along with the titlepage can be generated by passing the argument abstract to the document class.

• Option to generate only specific chapters and references without the frontmatter and title page. Useful for review and corrections.

• [] Draft mode: Draft water mark, timestamp, version numbering and line numbering

• [] Add supervisor and/or advisor to your PhD thesis

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Building your thesis - XeLaTeX

For overleaf

Clone and sync the repository https://github.com/BIIG-UC3M/Thesis-template

Using latexmk (Unix/Linux/Windows)

This template supports XeLaTeX compilation chain. To generate PDF run

latexmk -xelatex thesis.tex
makeindex thesis.nlo -s nomencl.ist -o thesis.nls
latexmk -xelatex -g thesis.tex

Building your thesis - LuaLaTeX

Using latexmk (Unix/Linux/Windows)

This template supports XeLaTeX compilation chain. To generate PDF run

latexmk -pdflatex=lualatex -pdf thesis.tex

Building your thesis - LaTeX / PDFLaTeX

Using latexmk (Unix/Linux/Windows)

This template supports latexmk. To generate DVI, PS and PDF run

latexmk -dvi -ps -pdf thesis.tex

Using the make file (Unix/Linux)

The template supports PDF, DVI and PS formats. All three formats can be generated with the provided Makefile.

To build the PDF version of your thesis, run:

make

This build procedure uses pdflatex and will produce thesis.pdf.

To produce DVI and PS versions of your document, you should run:

make BUILD_STRATEGY=latex

This will use the latex command to build the document and will produce thesis.dvi, thesis.ps and thesis.pdf documents. You will need psutils installed

Clean unwanted files

To clean unwanted clutter (all LaTeX auto-generated files), run:

make clean

Note: the Makefile itself is take from and maintained at here.

Shell script for PDFLaTeX (Unix/Linux)

Usage: sh ./compile-thesis.sh [OPTIONS] [filename]

[option] compile: Compiles the PhD Thesis

[option] clean: removes temporary files - no filename required

Using the batch file on Windows OS (PDFLaTeX)

• Open command prompt and navigate to the directory with the tex file. Run:

`compile-thesis-windows.bat`.

• Alternatively, double click on compile-thesis-windows.bat

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Usage details

• [] Thesis information such as title, author, year, degree, etc., and other meta-data can be modified in output.xmpdata

Title page

• [] Update the cover according to your university rules. WARNING! For Universidad Carlos III de Madrid this is quite critical and you should follow their templates. Download the template given as a .doc from here, include your information, save it as a .pdf and update the code line in the Latex document.

Abstract separate

• [] To generate the separate abstract and the title page, make sure the following commands are in the preamble section of thesis.tex file:

    \ifdefineAbstract
    \includeonly{Abstract/abstract}
    \fi
  

Chapter mode

• The chapter mode allows user to only print specific chapters along with references. By default, it excludes everything else in the front matter and appendices. This can done by using chapter option in the document class in thesis.tex. Ignore subsequent warnings about skipping sections (if any).

• To generate the separate abstract and the title page, make sure the following commands are in the preamble section of thesis.tex file:

   \ifdefineChapter
   	\includeonly{Chapter3/chapter3}
   \fi
  

Draft

draft adds a watermark draft text with timestamp and version number at the top or the bottom of the page. Pagewise line numbering is added on every page. draft settings can be tweaked in the preamble.tex.

• Use draftclassic in the document class options to use the default book class draft mode.

• To add figures in draft mode (default enabled), in the preamble set \setkeys{Gin}{draft=false}. draft=true disables figures

• To change the watermark text \SetDraftText{DRAFT}

• To change the position of the watermark text. Default watermark position is top. The location can be changed to (top / bottom) \SetDraftWMPosition{bottom}

• To change the draft version. Default draft version is v1.0. \SetDraftVersion{v1.1}

• Watermark grayscale value can be modified. Text grayscale value (should be between 0-black and 1-white). Default value is 0.75 \SetDraftGrayScale{0.8}

To-do Notes

General guidelines

• Remember LuaLatex!!
• In order to generate the thesis at different qualities. The template contains folders for figures storage at different formats. Just change the root path under \graphicspath at main_phd.tex

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Frequently Asked Questions

Q1: Where can I find the thesis formatting guidelines this class is based on?

Q2: Where can I find newer versions of the University of Cambridge crest/logos?

Q3: Where can I find the guidelines to submit my thesis and requirements?

Q4: How can I count the number of words in my thesis?

Overleaf: Menu --> Word Count

You can run the following command (Linux/Unix): ps2ascii thesis.pdf | wc -w (eg., result 2713 words)

or pdftotext thesis.pdf | wc thesis.txt -w (eg., result 2690 words)

or texcount -inc *.tex (eg., result 2341 words)

Q5: I found a bug in the template. Where do I report bugs?

You can report issues at our GitHub repository.

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Troubleshooting warnings

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Known issue(s) / Bugs / Feature requests

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Acknowlegments