tonysy / shtthesis

An unofficial LaTeX thesis template for ShanghaiTech University.

ShangHaiTech university THESIS (shtthesis)

shtthesis project, forked from ucasthesis, is an unofficial LaTeX thesis template for ShanghaiTech University and satisfies all format requirements of graduate/undergraduate thesis. The user just need to set \documentclass{shtthesis} and to setup mandatory information via \shtsetup, then his or her thesis document will be typeset properly:

\documentclass[master]{shtthesis}

\shtsetup{
  title = {论文标题},
  title* = {Title~of~Thesis},
  author = {作者姓名},
  author* = {Name~of~Author},
  % ...
}

\begin{document}
% ...

Get the Template

• Stable version: Install or download with any of following methods

  • CTAN (strongly recommended): shtthesis package on CTAN can be installed via tlmgr for TeX Live and MacTeX users:

    tlmgr install shtthesis

    If your distribution has already installed shtthesis, please update it to the latest version:

    tlmgr update shtthesis

    Note: shtthesis package on CTAN does not include the university logo file. Please download shanghaitech-logo.pdf from this repository and put it in the root of your project directory.

  • Overleaf: Please compile with XeLaTeX. Since compilation time for Overleaf free-plan is limited to 1 minute, you might encounter with timeout issue if compiling with LuaLaTeX

  • GitHub Release: Please refer to the release page and download required files based on release information

• Develop version: Directly clone the GitHub repo

  git clone https://github.com/lirundong/shtthesis.git

Please, read through the user's guide before continuing.

Get Started

After cloning or downloading this template, please

0. Install a modern TeX distribution in full scheme:
   • Windows or Linux: TeX Live
   • macOS: MacTeX
1. Open your terminal (CMD for Windows users) and switch to this directory, compile this template by latexmk tool with LuaLaTeX or XeLaTeX engine (note: pdfLaTeX is not supported):

   latexmk -pdflua
   # if you prefer XeLaTeX engine:
   # latexmk -pdfxe

   the output file shtthesis-user-guide.pdf is the compiled user guide document
2. Open the document source file shtthesis-user-guide.tex and enjoy TeXing 😏

License

• The copyright of ShanghaiTech University logo (shanghaitech-logo.pdf) is owned by ShanghaiTech University
• The rest of shtthesis project is licensed under GNU General Public License v3, see LICENSE for details