tlatsas/thesis-latex-template

Latex template files I used for my master thesis

Thesis Template

These are the files I used while writing my master thesis. It uses latex-mk. To generate the sample pdf file run make at the project's root directory.

Generate glossaries with latex-mk

To generate glossaries with latex-mk add the following snippet to your ~/.latexmkrc file:

add_cus_dep('glo', 'gls', 0, 'makeglo2gls');
sub makeglo2gls {
            system("makeindex -s '$_[0]'.ist -t '$_[0]'.glg -o '$_[0]'.gls '$_[0]'.glo");
}

Structure

The main file is the thesis.tex which in turn includes the thesis.sty file. All commands, environments and packages are defined in the thesis.sty file, while the thesis.tex includes the chapters, the references and defines a basic structure.

Chapters are included from the chapters folder using the subfiles package. The term definitions reside in the glossary folder. For images figures etc I prefer the img folder using a flat layout, but that's more of a personal taste. Finally frontmatter and backmatter are in the frontmatter and endmatter folders respectively.

Packages

The list of packages used:

• fontenc
• tgtermes
• geometry
• subfiles
• setspace
• parskip
• graphicx
• caption
• subcaption
• multirow
• hyperref
• url
• glossaries
• tocbibind
• underlin
• listings

Scripts

The img2eps.sh scripts in an imagemagick wrapper which converts image files to the eps format. The new-chapter.py is a script to quickly generate a scaffold of the next chapter. It accepts an optional parameter with the chapter's title. It creates the chapter file in the chapter folder using the appropriate filename.

What it looks like

Check out the pdf output here.