Preparing a thesis in LaTeX
This document describes the use of a LaTeX document class guthesis
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written to help produce a thesis conforming to the regulations
of the Faculty (see sections 7 and 8 in particular) with regard to line
spacing, margin widths and title page etc. This document class is available
on the lab PCs (including those in offices). If you want to use it elsewhere
you will need to take a copy of the file guthesis.cls
and place it the same folder as your thesis document.
Here is a suggested layout for a LaTeX document which will produce the thesis.
This sample thesis consists of an abstract (mandatory), acknowledgements, four
chapters, two appendices and a bibliography. The document of consists of a main
file (testthesis.tex
) which is processed with the contents of the
chapters etc. and the bibliography in separate files (ch1.tex
etc.,
thesis.bib
), all stored in the same directory. Copies of all the
relevent files are stored on the Novell server, from lab PCs they are in the
directory P:\localtexmf\docs\guthesis\.
They are also available here.
This is annotated version of testthesis.tex
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\documentclass{guthesis} |
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Declares document class as guthesis .
This is suitable for a PhD thesis; use \documentclass[msc]{guthesis} ,
for an MSc thesis. |
\usepackage{amsmath,amsfonts,cite} |
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cite
gives citations a more compact format. Include any other packages
you want. amsmath
is particularly useful. |
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\title{Darboux
transformations etc.} |
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These 4 lines set the things
which appear on the title page. |
\author{Jonathan
J C Nimmo} |
\submissionmonth{April} |
\submissionyear{2002} |
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\includeonly{
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Use this to selectively include only those parts you are curently
working on.
Place a % at the beginning of any line containing a filename to
omit the file from the list to be processed.
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abstract, |
acknowledge, |
ch1, |
ch2, |
ch3, |
ch4, |
appa, |
appb, |
null |
} |
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\begin{document}
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\maketitle
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This produces the title page with the correct
layout |
\include{abstract}
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\include{acknowledge}
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\tableofcontents
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Automatically produces the table of contents.
As always, you may need to process testthesis several
times to have an accurate table of contents. |
\include{ch1}
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\include{ch2}
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\include{ch3}
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\include{ch4}
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\appendix
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This command alters the meaning of \chapter .
From this point on, "chapters" are appendices. |
\include{appa}
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\include{appb}
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\bibliographystyle{plain}
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Use of BibTeX is recommended.
The software bibdb
is available on lab PCs and has help on using BibTeX. |
\bibliography{thesis}
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\end{document}
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Page created: 20/8/2002
Last edited: 20/8/2002 by JJCN