Latex thesis example

This basic example of thesis document for LaTeX have been prepared by default for my book - Przygotowanie pracy dyplomowej wraz z systemem Latex - but it also could be good example of thesis for my colleagues - students of University of Economics in Cracow.

Features

Full support of biblatex + biber
Polish fonts support (also for listings package);
UTF-8 encoding by default;
Many class options for personal confuguation;
Autoconfiguration for male or female formating of thesis;
Easy to set global variables;
Ready for Windows and Linux OSs;
Download repository, compile and have great fun;

Basic setup

Install neccesary bibraries like: TeXLive or MikTeX
Copy repository to your hard drive
Compile document
Become a wizzard

Installation of TeXLive or MikTeX

Firstly you need to install La(Tex) libraries --- If you have TexLive, MikTeX or similar libraries packages system all ready installed and also biber as well, you can skip this subpoints ;)

Linux

For most linux distributions based on Debian like: (ex: Ubuntu, Mint, ElementaryOS, etc) you could install texlive by run this command in terminal:

sudo apt-get install texlive-full biber

apt-get program will install whole bunch of Tex libs (~1.5GB). It's a lot of stuff and contains more libs then we'll ever use, but the main advantage of this setp is that you probably won't get any errors like missing common libraries while you'll be writting your thesis --- less errors, less worries - simple as that ;)

Windows

You can download Miktex. It's more-less an equivalent of Texlive libs and it's build specially for Windows systems. On Miktex's website you will find all information you need to use this piece of software.

Copy this repository to your hard drive:

cd ~/Pulpit
git clone git@github.com:egel/latex-example.git

or download manualy by clicking Download button on the bottom of right sidebar.

Compile whole document:

$ pdflatex main.tex
$ pdflatex main.tex
$ biber bibliografia.tex
$ pdflatex main.tex

or use for example some LaTeX editors like Texmaker (texmaker website). It's cross platform editor (Windows, OSX, Linux, OS/2) and has got predefine buttons to compile whole document by one click (default shortcuts: F1 - quick compile, F11 - bibliography compile)

Note: If you want to compile bibliography according to this project, you need to change default option of Bibtex: bibtex %.aux to ``. To be more precise, this step change default, old "bibtex" bibliography compilator to newer "biblatex + biber" for better bibliography management.

Become a wizzard

All done, and now you can give a try to become sophisticated LaTeX wizzard :)

Class options

oneside or twoside print (default: twoside);
addversion - print version of document into the printout document; This option is defined by \globalVersion variable (default: off);
male or female - this option sets all setting to men or women preferences (default: male);
Global font size: 13pt or 12pt or 11pt;

All document's variables are defined in main.tex file and have global suffix;

Maintenance

Quick command for remove unnecessary files from thesis root folder (linux)

rm *.aux *.log *.lot *.lol *.lof *.toc *.out *.dvi *.bbl *.bcf *.blg *.run.xml *.gz *.gz\(busy\)

Sublime Text project files

If you not using Sublime Text Editor you can easly remove thesis.sublime-project file, but it's not necessary. This file has no influence for rest of files while compiling project. It's only setup file for Sublime's project.

Enhancements, bugs, questions or errors

All things according, please report here.

egel / latex-thesis-example