Questions tagged [thesis]
{thesis} sometimes referred to a dissertation - a document written by students as part of their degree fulfillment. Use this tag for question related to thesis-specific questions or requirements.
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making appendix for thesis
I need some help with creating an appendix for my thesis. I have about 10 figures which need to be in the appendix. I have a good appendix with the following code:
\appendix
\addcontentsline{toc}{...
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Put entire thesis on one A0 poster?
The question
Is there any way to automatically scale and put an entire document on an A0 page? The thesis for which this is to be done is available as LaTeX code, as well as PDF output. Of course I ...
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Starting a PhD; Any guides to setting up a 'system'?
I'm starting a PhD and am being overwhelmed with the different possible ways people do things, and how they very rarely mix.
I'm (obviously) sold on TeXing it, and have a ViM background I intend on ...
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LaTeX templates for writing a thesis
Aside from CTAN, what are good resources/repositories for Latex templates? In particular, I'm looking for some pretty Thesis templates (I'm familiar with classicthesis)
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My phd supervisor wants me to use Word because they can't edit LaTeX. What to do?
How do I make it possible for my supervisor to edit my thesis while using LaTeX?
I submit a pdf document but they want to edit it.... how do I do this without switching to MS Word?
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Writing and Managing Thesis in LaTeX
I'm in the process of thesis writing. I'm LaTeX newbie and have its limited knowledge and experience. I'm thinking to use LaTeX or LyX for my thesis. Which one is better for thesis write up? If I go ...
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How to write a LaTeX class file for my thesis
I want to design a new LaTeX for my college thesis, so that all students could use it. I have decent understanding of how LaTeX works.
I am looking for some nice article explaining how to write a ...
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Headings and advice to write a PhD in physics using LaTeX
I have 3 months to write a PhD thesis in French.
I have a good level in LaTeX (wrote several memoires and many articles), however, I would like to know if you have any suggestions concerning good ...
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How to effectively use List of Symbols for a thesis?
I am looking at some thesis templates online, and virtually all of them have a line that says:
\chapter*{List of Symbols}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{List of Symbols}
For example:
https:/...
asked Jan 14 '17 at 2:46
Carlos - the Mongoose - Danger
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Setting class options after \documentclass
Context: I'm working on my thesis, and the formatting requirements are pretty godawful. In addition to the version I submit to the grad school, I would like to also create a properly formatted version ...
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Class for my thesis (I am a beginner, just installed LaTeX)… which document class and packages should I consider? [closed]
I am in the process of writing up a PhD thesis (Economics) in the TeXStudio environment, and I'm trying to decide what class/layout to use. I'm new to TeXStudio & LaTeX.
I must say that the ...
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Add “Appendix” before “A” for Appendix A in thesis TOC
I am required to insert the word Appendix before the letter A in my dissertation Table of Contents as follows:
Appendix A (title for appendix A)
but the latex thesis cls file: FAU Thesis Class I ...
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Is memoir class like an extended version of book class?
Hope this is not a stupid question but I'm a newbie to LaTeX. I am using LaTeX to write my Humanities thesis and while I am concentrating on the content at the moment I am just using a template I ...
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Rotate image according to pagenumber
For writing my master thesis I have an image in landscape that needs to be oriented correctly when it is eventually printed in a book.
If the page with the image is on the left side (even page number)...
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ASCII-Art Flower to a thesis in LaTex? How to make it nicely from front to back?
Thesis can have some sort of thank you thing in the beginning and perhaps something at the end. Instead of writing something specific, I would like to start a thesis with a flower-top and end it to ...
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Make Latexdiff work on big, complex project
I'm making final corrections to my thesis and, as others (e.g. here and here, on this site) have mentioned, showing the changes you've made from one file to the next to supervisors/examiners is ...
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Markdown vs latex for thesis
I have to face the decision what markup I use for my thesis (mostly mathematical formulas). I dont want to start learning the chosen language while I should focus on my thesis. I dont know much latex, ...
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Choice of consistent unicode open-type fonts for Phd Thesis in Engineering
Having written about 60% of my Phd thesis, I gave it to my advisor for review. I used Pdflatex and Latin Modern fonts for text and math. For source code listings, I did not change anything in ...
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Minitoc + thesis template + pdflatex
I added the package minitoc \usepackage[nohints]{minitoc} to this template and did as I read: add \dominitoc before \tableofcontents and \minitoc after a chapter's creation, but it doesn't appear.
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Workflow for including jupyter (aka ipython) notebooks as pages in a LaTeX documents?
I'm working on my thesis using LaTeX (via overleaf.com). I have a number of Jupyter Notebooks (formerly IPython Notebook) that I would like to include as appendices. I've tried 2 approaches:
1) Using ...
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Beautiful Ph.D thesis themes
Do you know beautiful customizable Ph.D class files or "themes"?
I am really eager to find a nice "base" eye-candy Ph.D class that I could customize myself. I began my Ph.D BUT I don't want to ...
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Embedding extended XMP metadata into a PDF file
I am preparing a thesis paper for submission into an electronic library database. Our institution cooperates with the British Library that uses their EThOS system to harvest the papers from the local ...
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How do I change my margins and spacing to fit the PhD thesis requirements of University XYZ?
Even-odd pages, inner edge 2.5cm, outer edge 1.5cm top and bottom 2cm. 1.5 spacing between the lines, double between paragraphs, no indent.
A general solution for other requirements would be best.
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How to painlessly create a custom layout for the title page for pdflatex?
For my thesis my university has only a Word template with font sizes and "window" specifications to position title, name, date, etc.
What is the easiest way to layout such thing, if I'm not an expert ...
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PHD/Master/Bachelor Thesis: Which Document Class to Choose [closed]
As I already mentioned in my previous question, I intend to give a LaTeX introduction to phd students. Most of them will already be using LaTeX somehow but their knowledge will be random. I want to ...
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Advice on how to help non-techies writing in LaTeX [closed]
Several of friends are soon going to write their theses, and I have offered to help them set it up in LaTeX. Their studies cover the entire spectrum, ranging from literature to medicine.
None of them ...
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Class for my thesis (amsbook currently)… should I use memoir or KOMA-Script?
I am in the process of writing up a PhD thesis (on an Engineering topic) in the LyX environment, and I'm trying to decide what class/layout to use. I'm new to LyX & LaTeX.
My supervisor seems to ...
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How to add authors to a chapter title
I am writing my thesis using book as the document class. Just below every chapter title, I would like to add in small letters - a reference to the published paper of the chapter.
Something like
**...
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Good LaTeX preambles for math thesis
Can someone provide me an example of a nice preamble to write a math thesis?
I am currently using
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\topmargin -15mm
\textheight 24truecm
\textwidth 16truecm
\...
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How do you reprint a theorem, proposition, etc. in its entirety?
I would like to prove all my theorems in the appendix. To do that, I would like to remind the readers what the theorem is, by reprinting it in the appendix.
However, I have not figured out a way to ...
asked Jan 15 '17 at 21:02
Carlos - the Mongoose - Danger
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Lemmas and sub sections
I want to write a LaTeX code to show,
Lemma 1 : x+y=z
Lemma 1.1: z-r+t=3
Lemma 1.2: q=r
How do I do that?
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Copying \subsection style to \subsubsection
\documentclass[a4paper,twoside, symmetric,justified,notoc, nobib]{tufte-book}
\titleclass{\subsubsection}{straight}
\begin{document}
\frontmatter
\pagenumbering{roman}
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{-1}
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Using a figure again in document
I have drawn a schematic geometry an I want to describe the results of simulations I did with several configuration. So in Section XY I describe the simulations I did with a case set-up using the ...
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How to make a thesis that can be read from both sides?
Soon I will have to hand in my thesis for my PhD. For my thesis I want to make a book that consists of two parts. You open on one side and you read the first part and turn it over to read the other ...
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Can “style justification” be part of the colophon?
I use classicthesis for my thesis, which is quite uncommon for my institution (the LaTeX class provided by the institute has line lengths of 130 chars and very tiny borders on A4 paper).
My ...
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Best workflows or tools to generate an html web page from a complex latex document like thesis
I'm really interested to publish my thesis on a website HTML + CSS (when it's done) augmented with tools to annotate it, like the philoweb initative (see here, and here).
I know the universal ...
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APA Master's thesis?
Has anyone written a Master's thesis in APA with LaTeX (preferably LyX)? The documentation for apa.cls says "do not use this for your thesis", but I can't find any alternative on the web.
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Switching an existing document to memoir. How much trouble is it?
I'm really growing fond of the memoir package. I have a large document in which I use the report documentclass. How much trouble would it be to switch to memoir; i.e. what would I 'probably' need to ...
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Branching or duplication in source control?
I'm writing a thesis, using latex, and git. I'm using \include for chapters. I also want to turn it into a journal article. I also have to give 2 or 3 presentations, which are for slightly different ...
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Thesis in LaTeX without memoir
I'm preparing a thesis report in LaTeX. I don't want to use the memoir class as I would like total control. I have two questions:
My thesis consists of an introduction and then a series of articles ...
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Frontispiece with absolute positioning, usage of the textpos package
I would like to write my graduation thesis in LaTeX, but I need to make a frontispiece that exactly looks like this one made with Microsoft Word:
I've tried with some environments like titlepage and ...
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How can I selectively paginate my Master's Thesis?
So basically my institute requires me to :
1) Number pages till Introduction in Roman
--- Title page should be unnumbered
2) From Introduction onwards, Arabic numbering
--- First page of ...
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Is it sensible to use the apa6 class for a thesis (with chapters)?
I want to use LaTeX/XeLaTeX (I'm a newbie) for my psychology PhD thesis, and my trial document currently uses apa6 for the document layout (and biblatex-apa/biber for referencing). It seems that apa6 ...
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How to correctly use “frontespizio” package
I'm an italian guy and I'm trying to get a frontispiece for my thesis using the frontespizio package.
First of all, I have to admit that my TeX knowledge is limited. I was able to add that package to ...
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Insert only half a pdf page
I'd like to include papers of mine which can easily be done with the pdfpages packages:
\usepackage{pdfpages}
\includepdf[pages=-]{mypaper.pdf}
However, my thesis has an A5 format. Which means that ...
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Overthinking it: document class report vs book for a thesis [duplicate]
I apologize in advance for the long wall of text; there is probably some way to condense this question to half the size without losing anything important, but I'm not sure which half to remove.
I ...
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Wrong Page Numbering using hepthesis [duplicate]
I am using the hepthesis document class, which is built on scrbook, and it produces incorrect page numbering for the following code:
\documentclass[oneside]{hepthesis}
\begin{document}
\begin{...
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Beginning Thesis [closed]
I am a graduate student in statistics and am about to begin writing my thesis, having finished my analyses and theoretical work. I have used LyX in the past and am well versed in knitr and have some ...
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Add figure, which is a table, to the list of tables
I am converting my thesis from Word to LaTeX, and I saved several huge tables as images.
For my thesis I have to compile a list of tables and figures. I am using \listoftables and \listoffigures.
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Example of contentsline
I would like to learn how to use the command contentsline; to do this I wrote the code:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\tableofcontents
\clearpage
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