kirelagin/thesis-template

Why

• This template automatically follows GOST to the letter (well, almost, there are minor deviations where GOST is particularly ugly).
• waf magically reruns XeTeX as many times as needed to properly generate the table of contents (yes, XeTeX, just as LaTeX, is stupid and has to be run multiple times).

HOWTO

• Install XeTeX and Pandoc.

• ./waf configure

• while ./waf is not succeeding

  • install missing stuff (see Dependencies)

• while not happy with your text

  • Edit .pd files
  • (sometimes) Edit .latex files
  • (sometimes) Update sources in wscript
  • ./waf

Dependencies

There is a list of required TeX Live packages in shell.nix but in case you could not care less you are always free to just install Tex Live Full.

Nice links

• The Waf Book
• Always feel free to refer to the real-life example (or a little bit obsolete one).

Structure

• Everything starts with main.latex. Edit the first three lines of this file.
• title.latex describes the title page. Edit the university name if needed.
• preamble.latex has boring technical TeX stuff.
• bib.bib is the bibliography. Edit it with KBibTeX or something like that.
• pseudo.latex is the definition of a simple pseudocode programming language. You’ll probably want to extend it and/or define more languages (don’t forget to \input them in preamble.latex).
• wscript describes how to build everything and the sources variable is actually the only interesting thing there.