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LaTeX thesis preamble

Created by Stephen Murphy on 2009-08-20

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LaTeX preamble for use with thesis temple, intended for dissertation and other academic/research writing.

This file will need to be included in the LaTeX file created from the template, and sets most of the options required. The LaTeX document itself would typically be under version control, and the preamble.tex file would be used as a submodule of the Git repository.

Note that style files, BibTeX files etc would be in the texmf tree.

This folder is versioned with git.

LaTeX Template

%
% LaTeX Template
%
% For UTS theses and assignments - by SM
%

documentclass[11pt,oneside,a4paper,openright]{memoir}

% Definitions

ewcommandmykeywords{} 

ewcommandmyauthor{} 

ewcommandmytitle{}


ewcommandmydate{	oday} % 	oday - or a fixed date e.g. 17 August 2009

% Special cases for titlePW title page

ewcommandmycovertitle{uppercase{} % [10pt] %
%largeuppercase{} [10pt] %
%
ormalsizeuppercase{} [20pt] Slowercase{upervisor:}  %
} % Multi-line title. uppercase has to be here


ewcommandmycoverauthor{myauthor  small{Student~No.~ [10pt] tel:   email: urlstyle{same}url{}}}


ewcommandmyfaculty{Faculty of 
    University of }

input{includes/preamble}

%-----------------------------------------------------------------------
%  Control included chapters here
%-----------------------------------------------------------------------

%includeonly{onechapter} %Text from only one file with numbering etc of whole doc

%%% BEGIN DOCUMENT

egin{document}

% frontmatter goes here
input{includes/frontmatter_thesis} % everything
% use any combo of below if not including all frontmatter
%input{includes/frontmatter_chapter}
%input{includes/frontmatter_toc}
%input{includes/frontmatter_abstract}

%-----------------------------------------------------------------------
% Begin thesis: use include for each chapter as a separate file.
%-----------------------------------------------------------------------

linespread{1.4}small
ormalsize % change linespacing for main part of doc
mainmatter

setcounter{secnumdepth}{-1}

% chapter 1
include{chapter1} % Introduction

% chapter 2
%include{chapter2} % Literature

% chapter 3
%include{chapter3} % Methodology

% chapter 4
%include{chapter4} % Data

% chapter 5
%include{chapter5} % Analysis

% chapter 6
%include{chapter6} % Conclusions

%-----------------------------------------------------------------------
% Appendices: use appendix switch to change to appendices.
%-----------------------------------------------------------------------

%appendix

% First appendix
%include{appendix1}

% Second Appendix
%include{appendix2}

%-----------------------------------------------------------------------
% Bibliography
%-----------------------------------------------------------------------
%section{References}

urlstyle{same}

enewcommand{ibname}{References} % Needs to be before bibliography command
ibliography{eddbib}        % expects file "eddbib.bib"

%% To create indexes for TODOs etc, need to run these makeindex commands after LaTeXing:
%% makeindex -o file.tnd file.tod
%% makeindex -o file.fnd file.fix
%% makeindex -o file.cnd file.chg

%printindex[todo]
%printindex[fixme]
%printindex[changed]

end{document}

License

All files are written by and copyright Stephen Murphy mailto:[email protected], although there have been many influences over the years affecting the final result. The idea of the TODO indexes comes from Mark Eli Kalderon -- see this blog post.

Any and all of the author's rights are currently reserved.

The inspiration for using git to version this LaTeX document comes from Mark Eli Kalderon mailto:[email protected]. For more information, see this blog post.