riehlegroup/thesis-template-latex

LaTeX Template for student thesis

LaTeX Thesis Template

How to build

Use the make or make build command to compile the final PDF. For more information about the provided targets (tasks) use make help.

Installation guide

Web Editor

You can use tools like Overleaf as web editor if you don`t want to install LaTeX locally. Just upload the files and you should be good to go!

Local Setup (Linux)

• Install TexLive and used packages, e.g. on Ubuntu based systems via sudo apt-get install texlive texlive-latex-extra texlive-lang-german biber
• Install the LaTeX editor of your choice

Local Setup (macOS)

MacTeX is a full LaTeX distribution (>4 GB) including a GUI application and all necessary packages. Install MacTeX via Homebrew or download it from https://www.tug.org/mactex/.

• brew install mactex or brew install mactex-no-gui and restart the terminal.

Structure

This template was designed so that you can focus on content and not on presentation. The following files may be edited:

• myconfiguration.sty - set your personal details such as your name and thesis title, and any additional packages you wish to include. Also define your chosen language.
• mybibliography.bib - your referenced materials. A short selection of Prof. Riehle`s works have been included.
• contents/zusammenfassung.tex - if the thesis is being written in English, remove the file.
• contents/ - all files in this directory are meant to be edited. Section headings should be retained when they are provided, if applicable. The existing content is provided only as a guide or example.

We are making use of BibLaTeX instead of BibTeX. If you have not used BibLaTeX before you may need to install biber. BibLaTeX is a modern bibliography tool which has more robust handling of unicode and URLs.

thesis-template-latex's Issues

Add list of tables and figures at the beginning

Add both after the list of content

Citation Style

We should make sure the right citation style is predefined.

I saw a low of citations like this one in previous thesis. [Schw2015]
Or do we want the currently defined one. (Schwarz, 2015)

@dirkriehle

Title has no line spacing

Appropriate line spacing is missing for the thesis title and subtitle on the title page:

Header Inconsistencies

The header of the PDF pages is handled inconsistently. There should always be a note which chapter/section we are currently in at the outer edge (varying if left or right page)

Changing the language in myconfiguration.sty does not have any effect

Tested on:

• Windows Subsystem Linux (Ubuntu 20.04) using pdfTeX 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.20 (TeX Live 2019/Debian)
• Ubuntu 20.04 using pdfTeX 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.20 (TeX Live 2019/Debian)
• Windows 10 using pdfTeX, Version 3.141592653-2.6-1.40.24 (MiKTeX 21.12)

Caused by:

\detokenize is not working as intended.
This latex-code:

will produce this output:

So the true-clause of \ifthenelse decicions in thesis.tex and osrthesis.sty cannot be reached. So switching to german is not possible.

Solution:

Just remove \detokenize{} from thesis.tex and osrthesis.sty. Works fine then.

PR will follow soon.