JeGa / thesis-template

A template package following the TUM informatics thesis guidlines.

thesis-template

A template package following the TUM informatics thesis guidlines. It aims to be simple to use and extend, providing only the preface pages required in the guidlines. All other configuration like page margins, headings, etc. are left to the user.

TUM informatics guidlines: https://www.in.tum.de/fuer-studierende/pruefungen-und-formalitaeten/abschlussarbeit/

There are also other thesis templates available, e.g. https://github.com/fwalch/tum-thesis-latex.

Usage

Copy example-config.tex as my-config.tex to your project directory and add your information. Find the TUM logos (e.g. from the mytum CI website) and copy them into some folder, e.g. res/logos as tum-logo.pdf and faculty-logo.pdf. Create content/my-abstract.tex and content/my-acknowledgment.tex with your abstract and acknowledgment. In your main tex file, use the thesis template package as shown in the following snippet.

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{report}
\usepackage[logos=res/logos,config=my-config,abstract=content/my-abstract,acknowledgment=content/my-acknowledgment]{thesis-template}

% User macros, packages, etc.
% \input{my-macros}

\begin{document}
	\preface
	
	\toc
	
	% User content.
	% \input{my-content}
	
	% Bibliography.
	% e.g. \printbibliography
\end{document}

Make sure your compiler can find the thesis-template package. The env.sh script adds the package to the TEXINPUT environment variable. For example, clone the repository into some directory and from your project's root directory, call

../thesis-template/env.sh lualatex ...

Some hints

• Use the flag -output-directory=build of the tex compiler to have all output files in a separate build directory.
• Customize your page margins using the geometry package.
• Customize your chapter format using the titlesec package.
• Add header and footer using the fancyhdr package.
• Use the package todonotes for todos.