peng-hui / cuhk-thesis

A LaTeX Template for CUHK Thesis

Updated by Penghui Li to sync with SecLab/die template. There are lots of useful commands defined in cmds.tex. You can also find a synchronized version on Overleaf.

├── Makefile
├── README.md
├── p.tex > main tex file of the thesis
├── hdr.tex > headers including title, etc.
├── abstract-zh.tex > abstract in Chinese
├── abstract.tex > abstract in English
├── dedication.tex
├── chapter.tex > main text
├── ack.tex > acknledgement
├── code > code snippets
├── fig > figures
├── pkgs.tex 
├── p.bib > bibtex
├── bin > scripts
├── cmds.tex > self-defined latex command
└── rev.tex

There are several notes:

• Use XeLatex instead of pdflatex for the compilation.
• To enable latex compilation in your local host, you need have text-live installed. You might also need some more packages.
• The build script might abort before the references are successfully linked. You might need to build twice (i.e., run make twice).
• You might reuse the content in your previous papers in the thesis. It is likely your several papers cite the same resources with difference keys. Please make sure to de-duplicate the bibtex entries ultimately. There are multiple online websites that can help do the job.
• Similarly, you also need to change the labels/refs in your tex files. You can use a simple regular expression to handle this.
• You also need to adjust the location of code or figures.
• A problem related to the left quote raised when using minted for the code styles, especially when Chinese characters are involved. I took a walkaround by chaning the code/fmt style file.

The scripts under bin/ come from various sources and the credit should go to their original developers.

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A PhD Thesis submitted to CUHK

Author: ZHENG Fan

Install dependencies

The tex source file depends on several latex packages. Check the dependence_texlive target in Makefile for the package list.

If using TexLive, you can run the tlmgr install ... command in Makefile to install the required packages, or directly execute command make dependence_texlive in Unix terminals. Note that TexLive installed via apt install in Ubuntu gives an unusable tlmgr, and one good solution is to uninstall it and reinstall TexLive via the tool in https://tug.org/texlive/quickinstall.html.

If using MikTex, required packages will be automatically installed during building.

Build PDF

Build the thesis using the xelatex engine. On Unix/Linux, just use the Makefile to build, i.e. in terminal:

make

If not on Unix/Linux, help yourself.