That's just thesis style infinity + 1, nothing special, a lot of wasted space due to huge numbers.
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
#52That's thesis style infinity out of infinity +1. Nothing special, weird fonts, lots of wasted space.
Re: Clean Thesis – A clean, simple, and elegant LaTeX style for thesis documents
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
True. I started using Subversion and then Mercurial for writing scientific papers during grad school (a distributed VCS was handy when editing on multiple machines), but it never seemed worth the effort to teach my collaborators how to use them from scratch.
Re: Clean Thesis – A clean, simple, and elegant LaTeX style for thesis documents
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
This link got me started in TeX (I was just barely aware of its existence before). http://nitens.org/taraborelli/cvtex Not a thesis template at all, but great ideas and it sheds some light on how to get decent typography. On a side note, I think it would be great to have a good WYSIWYG TeX editor for office/basic user level of proficiency. Typesetting does matter, it profoundly impacts reading, which is particularly…
Check out Lyx
+1
I've wrote my Bachelor thesis in LyX and it's awesome, especially for math!
If someone is interested (it's about Bitcoin and in German), here's the source: http://www.math.uni-bremen.de/~jhasse/Bachelor-Arbeit.zip And here's the PDF: http://www.math.uni-bremen.de/~jhasse/Kryptografische%20Grun... Nothing fancy like Clean Thesis though. I like the http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ approach better ;)
Re: Clean Thesis – A clean, simple, and elegant LaTeX style for thesis documents
#55That's just thesis style infinity + 1, nothing special, a lot of wasted space due to huge numbers.
wasted space = more pages!
Re: Clean Thesis – A clean, simple, and elegant LaTeX style for thesis documents
#56Anyone 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.
google for pandoc...
Re: Clean Thesis – A clean, simple, and elegant LaTeX style for thesis documents
#57"This text should contain all letters of the alphabet..."
Except for Z and Q. Those don't count.
Re: Clean Thesis – A clean, simple, and elegant LaTeX style for thesis documents
#58Isn'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…
Same exact story here, I even whipped up a quick web page[1] to share the modifications I made to the stylesheet with other students. Amazingly it looks like the site is still up after 10+ years so kudos to the webmasters, with the files still downloadable and links still alive; looking back on the page is a hilarious nostalgia trip for me, it was written by hand and has a hit counter (of course):
[1] http://homepage.usask.ca/~ebs642/
Re: Clean Thesis – A clean, simple, and elegant LaTeX style for thesis documents
#59I thought the default style(s) were the results of years of micro tweaking and deep studies of the impact of character positioning and flows by Knuth and that only the default \LaTeX{} style could give that 2% head start or that A instead of a B++ for any essay. Now we add blue titles ? And sans serif font ? Sarcasm apart, it looks good. Some links are 404 on the page though (classic thesis, etc.).
+1. The blue titles, the unnecessary lines and the fact that he branded it with the whole Clean Thesis thing doesn't really sound clean in my book. I'm currently looking for a thesis template as well, but the more I come across (1) the more I just want to do something like http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ . (1) http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/326/latex-templates-f...
I just finished a rant on a certain tex forum about how LaTeX adds 10x complexity (to TeX + plainTeX) for making end-user's life about 10% easier.
My two cents:
- Once you become a moderately advanced LaTeX user, you need more control over your document.
- This almost exclusively leads to a preamble that is a complete mess of spaghetti code.
- Putting that mess in a separate file doesn't solve the issue, only hides it.
- Another view is that if your preamble is a mess, your document is screaming at you to create your own documentclass (or rename the class you're using and modify it).
- But that requires you become familiar with LaTeX (and TeX) internals.
- But that is way harder than becoming familiar with TeX + PlainTeX.
Therefore, as an intermediate to advanced TeX user I'm beginning to believe that TeX + PlainTeX is a much better approach. Although you'd sacrifice advanced functionality of hundreds of LaTeX packages, but people who wrote those packages could've easily written TeX macro-collections. LaTeX is used more only because it has more momentum behind it; otherwise PlainTex is a much cleaner approach.
If you're willing to get under the hood of the whole system, I highly recommend Knuth's The TeXbook.
P.S.: Just for comparison, LaTeX *.ltx files are about ~10,000 LOCs compared to ~1200 LOCs of plain.tex (which is fully documented in Appendix B of The TeXbook).