derikon / thesis_template

👩‍🎓 A LaTeX template for writing your diploma thesis.

Thesis Template

👩‍🎓 A LaTeX template for writing your diploma thesis.

File Structure

In the root directory are just two important files - the "master file" thesis.tex and literature.bib.

Root Directory

The thesis.tex defines the LaTeX preamble and has links to all thesis chapters. This file is used to compile the entire thesis. The literature.bib is a BibTeX file including all your bibliography in a machine readable file format. This file is most likely generated by software like BibDesk.

Chapters

All files related to a chapter are stored inside the chp directory. Chapters with sections and subsections have their own dedicated directories. There is a "main-file" for each chapter which is included into thesis.tex by \include{chp/chapter_dir/chapter_main}.

Sections are stored in separate files and are included into the chapter main file by \input{chp/chapter_dir/section}. Files included via input are simply copied into the main file during compilation.

Media Files

Any type of media files is stored inside the img directory. This directory is specified as \graphicspath in the TeX preamble (see thesis.tex) so you just need to type the image name in \includegraphics (see cover.tex). If you use subdirectories for images, type \includegraphics[]{sub_dir/sub_sub_dir/image_name}.

Features

• cover page
• table of contents
• list of acronyms
• chapters with sections and subsections
• list of figures
• bibliography
• appendix

Create PDF

Terminal

Open a terminal, cd into the root directory (where thesis.tex is) and run following commands:

pdflatex thesis
bibtex thesis
makeglossaries thesis
pdflatex thesis
pdflatex thesis

TeXShop

1. Open thesis.tex
2. select LaTeX and compile
3. select BibTeX and compile
4. open terminal and run makeglossaries thesis to include acronyms
5. select LaTeX and compile