ua-thesis-template
A thesis LaTeX template that complies with the University of Aveiro's
guidelines and provides a simple CLI workflow around make that was developed
and tested for cross-compatibility on Linux (Slackware, ArchLinux) and macOS
(High Sierra 10.13.6).
Usage
Build a development version of the document:
make [build]
Continuously build the development version of the document:
make preview
This option is great when paired with a document viewer (such as Okular) which automatically reloads the document on file change. This means you can keep writing and on save the updated document is compiled and displayed!
Build versions of the document for publishing:
make print
make ebook
Run linters (for now only proselint) against a TeX file (e.g. chapter 1):
make lint [texfile=chapter1.tex]
If you do not specify the texfile to lint, then all TeX files in chapters/
will be linted.
Clean the build directory:
make clean[all]
clean will leave the output products (the PDFs) in place, while cleanall
will remove these too. If your document is not compiling for some reason and
you think you've already solved the problem in the LaTeX sources, maybe try a
cleanall before insisting. Sometimes the underlying build programs (namely
latexmk) get stuck in inconsistent temporary files.
How to use the template
This is all great, but how can this repository be used as a starting point for writing your own thesis?
In our opinion you have mostly three options:
- Download/clone the repository and copy all files to a directory of your
desire, for instance to inside some special folder within you own thesis
repository.
Notice that this will not allow you to easily keep up with this template should it change. - Fork the repository to your own and work there. If you want to include it
within your own thesis repository, you can use
git submodulesfor this. - Use
git subtreeto pull this repository to your main thesis repository and work directly there. Changes in your copy will be versioned by your main thesis repo, while you will still be able to pull new updates from here should they appear.
I've chosen the last of these options, as it seems to be the most flexible and easy-to-use alternative. Here follow the main commands you will need should you choose to go along with this too.
$ git subtree add --prefix $DESTDIR [email protected]:fabiomaia/ua-thesis-template.git master --squash;
$ git subtree pull --prefix $DESTDIR [email protected]:fabiomaia/ua-thesis-template.git master --squash;
They should be self explanatory, but:
- The first of these will pull this repository for the first time to
$DESTDIR. - The second is used for subsequent pulls.
This assumes that you are within an already initialized git repo. Look for more on the documentation.
Use it in Overleaf
It is possible to use this template in overleaf.
To enable it:
- in
matter.texchange\def\useoverleaf{0}to 1 - add
fc-portuges.defto the project the file be can found in here
Dependencies
- A TeX distribution: TeX Live or MacTeX
- gs (for
make print,make ebookandsimplify-colors.sh) - pandoc (for
make lint) - imagemagick and poppler (for
simplify-colors.sh) - pygments (for minted)
As for pygments and proselint, those can by installed with pip by issuing pip install -r requirements.txt at the root of this repository.
On Ubuntu relatives the following dependencies, installable with apt may
also be required
- biber
- texlive-bibtex-extra
- texlive-latex-extra
- texlive-science
These endorse dependencies which may or may not come with the TeX Live package distributed with your Linux distribution.
Usually TeX Live is split into a minimal package and a texlive-extra which is
filled with the remainder of TeX Live, be it fonts, styles, language support,
and so on. So, if a LaTeX dependency is missing on your installation, do verify
that you are not missing one of these packages.
Authors
Tomás Oliveira e Silva created the original template which was later picked up by João Paulo Barraca who improved and maintained it for years.
This is a fork by Fábio Maia and Ricardo Jesus who wanted to further improve the template and setup a clean environment and workflow for writing their MSc thesis.