Template for a LaTeX PhD UoE Thesis.

Author: Magnus Hagdorn

This template setup allows you to produce:

• a thesis that adheres to the UoE regulations (at least my interpretations of them and no-one complained when I submitted mine)
• about using the logo: https://www.ed.ac.uk/communications-marketing/resources/university-brand
• a nicely formatted pdf version with and without hyperlinks of the same thesis and with single line spacing, etc
• individual documents for each chapter

Indivdual chapters reside in their own directories. (Re)-Define the macro \dir to the relative path where files for the current chapter can be found. You can then use \dir to include files or graphics, e.g.

\newcommand{\dir}{theory}
\input{\dir/theory.tex}
\includegraphics[width=0.7\textwidth]{\dir/figs/geek_flow_chart_nyt.png}

Using this macro allows you to distribute files over a number of directories.

The common directory

This directory contains files used by all the documents:

• the packages.tex files contains a lits of packages used
• the definitions.tex file contains settings and macros

The preface directory

contains files for the preface.

The template directory

This directory should be copied for each chapter. Rename the sub directory accordingly. All files should be kept in this sub directory. If you want to produce a document for the individual chapter, run latex on the chapter.tex file.

Bibliography

You can have your bibliography database bibliography.bib in any directory you like as long as you set the BIBINPUTS environment variable to the directory containing your bib files.

The thesis directory

This directory pulls files from the preface and the chapter directories together to produce the complete thesis. There are 3 different top level files:

• latex ed_thesis.tex to produce official 1.5 (?) spaced thesis which adheres to the regulations
• latex nicepdf_thesis.tex to produce a dvi file to be processed using dvipdft. The resulting pdf will have colour hyperlinks.
• latex niceps_thesis.tex to produce a single spaced thesis without the hyperlinks for printing

All three top level files include the thesis.tex file. This file includes the actual preface and chapter files.

You can use the \ifthenelse macro to do specific things for either the standard or nice thesis version, e.g.

\ifthenelse{\boolean{edthesis}}
 {
   Do something specific for the offical version 
}
{
   Do something else for the nice version
}

If you have any questions or problems contact it.geos@ed.ac.uk.

This template is licensed under Creative Commons CC BY-SA: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/