thesis-template

A Latex template for your Bachelor's or Master's thesis.

Please note: This is only a template. You have to adapt the template to your thesis and discuss the structure of your thesis with your supervisor!

Guidelines

Please thorougly read our guidelines and hints on confluence! (TUM Login Required)

Usage

Set thesis metadata

Fill in your thesis details in the metadata file:

• Degree (Bachelor or Master)
• Your study program
• English and German title
• Advisor and supervisor
• Your name (without e-mail address or matriculation number)
• The start and submission date

Build PDFs locally

latexmk -pdf

Clean temp files:

latexmk -CA

Build and release a PDF automatically

This template contains a GitHub workflow that automatically builds the LaTeX document and creates a release on GitHub with the built PDF. For new repositories generated by this template, the workflow is enabled by default.

Using GitHub Actions is free of charge for public repositories. To learn more about pricing, please refer to this documentation on billing.

Disable automatic builds

In case you do not want this feature, you can simply remove the build-release-thesis.yml file from the .github/workflows/ folder.

Add the workflow to existing repositories

You can also use the workflow with an existing repository. Either copy the file build-release-thesis.yml from the folder .github/workflows/ within this template to the exact same location in your repository or apply a patch with these commands:

# Move into your repository
cd <REPOSITORY>

# Get the changes and apply them
curl -L https://github.com/ls1intum/thesis-template/pull/12/commits/0679ed5d48e361edf2866b02f39832e6552d0033.patch | git apply
git add .github/workflows/build-release-thesis.yml
git commit -m "Add workflow for automatic LaTeX builds."

# (Optional) Push the changes
git push