andraspatka / sapi-thesis-template

LaTeX template for Sapientia Bachelor's Thesis

LaTeX template for Sapientia Bachelor's Thesis

Recommended Editor: Visual Studio Code with LaTeX Workshop plugin

Pro tip: use alt+z for text wrapping.

Stuff to install

Dependencies:

sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-extra

sudo apt-get install texlive-lang-european

sudo apt-get install texlive-science

Spell checking: spell right

ln -s /usr/share/hunspell/* ~/.config/Code/Dictionaries

sudo apt install hunspell-hu

Compiling

Compile with:

pdflatex main.tex
bibtex main
pdflatex main.tex
pdflatex main.tex

Or use VSC Latex Workshop Plugin:

• ctrl + shift + p
• type in: LaTeX Workshop: Build with recipe
• press enter
• choose the recipe with pdflatex -> bibtex -> pdflatex -> pdflatex

Folder structure

Recommended folder structure:

• docs: LaTeX files and generated pdf
  • chapters: contains the LaTeX files for the chapters
  • figures: contains all kinds of figures
    • images: contains all kinds of images
      • literature: contains images that come from the literature
    • tables: contains tables
    • algorithms: contains pseudocode algorithms
  • pdfs: contains pdfs which can be included. Also contains the doc files (in case needed) from which pdfs can be generated.
• literature: scientific articles that were used for the thesis

Github actions

The respository contains a very basic Github action, that compiles the latex document and pushes the generated PDF to the repo. In order to use this, you need to define two secrets:

• secrets.EMAIL: your email address (used for git)
• secrets.FULL_NAME: your full name (used for git)