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Clean Thesis – A clean, simple, and elegant LaTeX style for thesis documents

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Re: Clean Thesis – A clean, simple, and elegant LaTeX style for thesis documents

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Post by boothead »

ivansavz wrote: post #39
boothead wrote: post #35

Anyone got a similar resource for self publishing ebooks? I had some stuff hacked together with org-mode and some other bits a while ago, but would like to know of anything better.

You can look into softcover/polytexnic here: https://github.com/softcover/softcover , I believe it had a decent .tex style for a book. Also very powerful pipeline for producing .epub/.mobi from .tex Another excellent style sheet to look into is the Tufre-style book: http://www.latextemplates.com/template/tufte-style-book I'd also be happy to share some of the .tex header I use for my book---just some customizations o…

Softcover looks awesome. Thanks!

Re: Clean Thesis – A clean, simple, and elegant LaTeX style for thesis documents

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Post by coliveira »

In many universities the problem is that you need to produce a thesis according to the university specifications. A generic thesis document may help with this, but will unfortunately never solve the complete problem. Fortunately, however, most universities also have a local LaTeX guru, or you can just copy the style used by previous students.

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Post by akeck »

boothead wrote: post #35

Anyone got a similar resource for self publishing ebooks? I had some stuff hacked together with org-mode and some other bits a while ago, but would like to know of anything better.

It's not LaTeX, but a historian recently posted on HN his work flow for using plaintext and Pandoc for writing papers [1]. I've been using markdown+pandoc [2] for a book of stories for my family. TeX/LateX exerts nearly absolute (albeit, gorgeous) control over layout, whereas e-book readers often provide the reader with many configurable layout options. Thus, e-book formats tend towards a content-with-minimal-layout-hints way of handling layout. I'm finding markdown plus pandoc a good fit for the latter.

[1] http://wcm1.web.rice.edu/my-academic-book-in-plain-text.html

[2] https://puppetlabs.com/blog/automated-ebook-generation-conve...

Re: Clean Thesis – A clean, simple, and elegant LaTeX style for thesis documents

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Post by snowballsteve »

coliveira wrote: post #42

In many universities the problem is that you need to produce a thesis according to the university specifications. A generic thesis document may help with this, but will unfortunately never solve the complete problem. Fortunately, however, most universities also have a local LaTeX guru, or you can just copy the style used by previous students.

Where I did mine, they required submissions in strict word formatting.

Re: Clean Thesis – A clean, simple, and elegant LaTeX style for thesis documents

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Post by ajarmst »

Many institutions, including mine, require a very specific style. Many even provide templates. Irritatingly, mine only provided a Word template, so I had to spend a day or two creating a LaTeX style. (Procrastination bonus: I was "working on my thesis" without actually working on my thesis). The mere fact that the provided style uses color would disqualify it as a thesis in many institutions. Also, it's somewhat distasteful that the linked site uses significantly more words on how I can donate for this derivative work than it spends on convincing me to use it.

Re: Clean Thesis – A clean, simple, and elegant LaTeX style for thesis documents

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Post by carlob »

Steuard wrote: post #28
ginko wrote: post #2

Isn't the LaTeX stylesheet for your thesis usually dictated by your university? It was for me at least..

At the University of Chicago, the thesis office didn't give any indication that they'd ever heard of LaTeX. But they did hand us a long list of formatting requirements (precise margins, contents format, lots of other details) and it was clear that any deviation from those would result in your thesis being handed right back to you. Fortunately, there was a LaTeX style file that had been handed around the physics depar…

Put on github instead of passing it down? Might not work for non-comp-sci students that use LaTeX, but are not familiar with git.

Re: Clean Thesis – A clean, simple, and elegant LaTeX style for thesis documents

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Post by analog31 »

zlalanne wrote: post #43

Anyone have a good template / project for homework assignments that typically have code snippets, graphs, images and formulas?

If I were teaching right now, I would gladly accept iPython. It is what I now use for reports containing similar content, doing R&D in industry.

Re: Clean Thesis – A clean, simple, and elegant LaTeX style for thesis documents

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Post by currysausage »

http://cleanthesis.der-ric.de/img/ct_toc.jpg

Using 2 different sans-serif fonts in the same document (here: Helvetica and the TeX humanist) is usually frowned upon by typographers. One reason is that differences in size, style, color, etc. should always be noticable. Two sans-serif fonts will always look superficially similar; the eye has to get used to different letter forms when it expects the font to stay the same.

Beyond that, I think the template is really beautiful. Thanks for sharing!

Re: Clean Thesis – A clean, simple, and elegant LaTeX style for thesis documents

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Post by ska »

noqqe wrote: post #15
gjm11 wrote: post #7

If the creator is reading this: Your web pages would be immediately improved 100% by adding a link to a PDF file generated using this style, showing most of what goes into a typical thesis. (You could use your own thesis for which it was developed, or just a pile of lorem ipsum.) I see that you have links to JPEGs of sample pages, but this would be much better. [EDITED to add: I am not suggesting that you remove the…

https://github.com/derric/cleanthesis/blob/master/thesis-exa...

Very strange for me to see an example thesis in latex without any mathematics in it!
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