LaTeX Thesis Template

Template for easily getting started with writing a good looking thesis using LaTeX. (With Ludwig-Maximilans-University Munich seal and header, but this can easily be adapted to your university.)

It contains some example content from my own thesis (university seal & name, chapter structure, example tables & data) so you can get a picture of how the final document might look.

By default all sections are outsourced into their own numbered file in src to keep the project organized.

This is not a tutorial and a little prior knowledge of LaTeX is beneficial.

Features

• Produces a well formatted pdf
• with toc, bibliography & glossar
• Organized folder structure
• Option to programatically generate a table with primer sequences from a csv file (Code can easily be adapted to other purposes or removed if not needed)

Usage

• Setup LaTeX (e.g. TeX Live Full & TeX Studio)
• Clone repo/download project
• Chage title, author, metadata in thesis.tex and src/00a-title_page.tex
• Get writing, you can keep the example structure or modify it by adding new sections to thesis.tex and src/.
• Cite your sources (\cite{citekey})
• Define acronyms in src/06-abbreviations.tex and use them inline with \ac{}
• Put figures you want to include into graphics
• Provide your referenes in biblatex format in references.bib
• Optionally, provide a list of primer sequenes as csv in data/ to automatically produce a list in the materials section

Optional: Enable .svg support

If you want to include .svg files as figures (like the university seal in the example) do the following:

1. Make sure you have inkscape installed (It's used for a .svg to .pdf conversion in the background. The generated .pdf is cached in svg_inkscape/.)
2. Have inkscape in your PATH (manually on windows, linux does this automatically)
3. add --shell-escape to your pdfLaTeX command

Use it like this: \includesvg[height=45mm]{seal_lmu.svg}