patrickrobrecht / latex-templates-upb

Thesis and slides templates for Paderborn University

LaTeX Thesis Template @UPB

This LaTeX template may be used by students of Computer Science and other scientific studies at the University of Paderborn (UPB) as basic setup for their Bachelor's / Master's / PhD thesis. The same template may be used for thesis proposals as well.

How to use

Thesis template

• Open the file thesis/thesis.tex in your favourite LaTeX editor (e. g. TeXstudio and compile it with PdfLaTeX and BibTeX:

  cd thesis
  pdflatex thesis
  bibtex thesis
  pdflatex thesis
  pdflatex thesis
  

• Set your title, thesis type, name etc. in config.tex. These will be used on the title page, the PDF title, and the footers.
• Start writing your thesis:
  • Write the abstract thesis/pretext/abstract.tex
  • Write your introduction in thesis/chapters/introduction.tex.
  • Add more chapters by adding \input{chapters/my-fancy-second-chapter} to the main part of thesis/thesis.tex and put the contents for the second chapter into the created file chapters/my-fancy-second-chapter.tex.

Helpful resources:

• WikiBooks: LaTeX
• Getting Started with LaTeX

Bibliography management

• The bibliography file literature.bib can be managed using JabRef or any other tool for bibtex. After adding/editing an entry in the bibliography you may need to recompile LaTeX twice until the reference is shown/updated.

Helpful resources:

• How to use BibTeX
• ShareLaTeX: Bibliography management in LaTeX
• WikiBooks: LaTeX/Bibliography Management

Slides template

• Open the file slides/slides.tex in your favourite LaTeX editor and compile it with PdfLaTeX:

  cd slides
  pdflatex slides
  

• Start designing your slides:
  • Write your introduction in slides/sections/introduction.tex.
  • Add more sections by creating slides/sections/mysection.tex. and include it in the main file with \input{chapters/my-section}.

Helpful resources:

• The beamer class - User guide
• ShareLaTeX: Beamer
• WikiBooks: LaTeX/Presentations
• Fun with Beamer (tutorial by Prathik Naidu and Adam Pahlava)

Common configuration

• You may add more packages to import or define own commands in command.tex. They can be used both in the thesis and the slides.

Manage todos

Many LaTeX editors recognize the commands

• %TODO mytodo
• and \todo{mytodo}

and create a list of todos for you.

Note that the latter requires the todonotes package (included in the template) which will create boxes in the generated PDF showing your todos, while comments like %TODO mytodo won't appear in the PDF.

Not from UPB, but still like the template?

You may replace the file figures/logo.png with any other logo.

How to contribute

You have ideas how to improve this template? Or found problems?

• Fork the repository and create a pull request.
• Report an issue.