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

Post by asQuirreL » Tue, Jun 23, 2015, 5:47 PM UTC

ajarmst wrote: post #46

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 dist…

Post by TylerE » Tue, Jun 23, 2015, 6:58 PM UTC

johnchristopher wrote: post #22

bhaak wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You seem to confuse TeX and LaTeX. Knuth himself doesn't do LaTeX so the default styles aren't from him. It's been a while since I read the documentation to KOMAscript and Memoir but I think both contain some criticism on Lamport's default styles. There is nothing wrong per se with a sans serif font for titles as long as it fits to the serif font for the main text. I'm not quite convinced though that this is the case…

> You seem to confuse TeX and LaTeX. Knuth himself doesn't do LaTeX so the default styles aren't from him. Oops, mea culpa. You're right, I mixed both thinking Latex and Tex were quite equivalent in term of style rendering. I never bothered looking into Tex, I just wrote some Latex classes (and documents, of course). > BTW, the README states that this layout has been "inspired by user guide documents from Apple Inc."…

Post by baby » Tue, Jun 23, 2015, 7:05 PM UTC

johnchristopher wrote: post #5

I 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.).

Post by jimmahoney » Tue, Jun 23, 2015, 7:18 PM UTC

haddr wrote: post #37

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…

And a must-have is an example with: - pictures - tables - formulas When you can't find it in the sample PDF, you assume that adding them will be some sort of visual hell...

Post by reagency » Tue, Jun 23, 2015, 8:35 PM UTC

snowballsteve wrote: post #45

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.