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Questions tagged [thesis]

{thesis} sometimes referred to as dissertation – a document written by students as part of their degree fulfillment. Use this tag for questions related to thesis-specific requirements.

Students use LaTeX templates to typeset their theses following a certain protocol approved by Universities/Colleges. There are many built-in document classes available for writing such as memoir and KOMA-Script.

Institution-specific document classes/packages include:

  • University of California thesis document class: ucthesis
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Workflow for including jupyter (aka ipython) notebooks as pages in a LaTeX documents?

I'm working on my thesis using LaTeX (via overleaf.com). I have a number of Jupyter Notebooks (formerly IPython Notebook) that I would like to include as appendices. I've tried 2 approaches: 1) Using nbconvert to convert the notebook to LaTeX and…
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ASCII-Art Flower to a thesis in LaTex? How to make it nicely from front to back?

Thesis can have some sort of thank you thing in the beginning and perhaps something at the end. Instead of writing something specific, I would like to start a thesis with a flower-top and end it to its flower-end in ASCII art. I would like to make…
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Advice on how to help non-techies writing in LaTeX

Several of friends are soon going to write their theses, and I have offered to help them set it up in LaTeX. Their studies cover the entire spectrum, ranging from literature to medicine. None of them have any previous experience with LaTeX, and…
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How to make a thesis that can be read from both sides?

Soon I will have to hand in my thesis for my PhD. For my thesis I want to make a book that consists of two parts. You open on one side and you read the first part and turn it over to read the other part. Does anyone know how to make this in LateX?…
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Adding supervisor to thesis

I am writing some thesis in Latex and I use some template. At the first page I would like to add my supervisor. In one file there is possibility to add it. There is macro like: \college{}; \author{}; \title{}, but there are no for supervisor…
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Can "style justification" be part of the colophon?

I use classicthesis for my thesis, which is quite uncommon for my institution (the LaTeX class provided by the institute has line lengths of 130 chars and very tiny borders on A4 paper). My supervisor says I can use whatever I want, but I want to…
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Emergency stop (job aborted/no legal end found)

I am working on my thesis and I was finishing it on latex. Until now everything was good. I had only 3 pages to do. But, suddenly the latex file gives me this problem emergency stop. And the latex produces 20 pages not 30 as I had before. I need…
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How to write a Thesis with font of size 14pt?

I want to write my thesis in latex, with a font of size 14pt. I wrote \documentclass[14pt,oneside,a4papper]{book} but the font is not of 14pt. Can someone tell me how can I write with 14pt? Thank you!
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Writing a Master´s thesis on LaTex

I am very new to LaTex and I have reached a point where Microsoft word is causing too much trouble writing scientific articles and text with data and images. I have now been reading about the LaTex program. I do not have much of a programming…
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Adding images in the right places

I am writing a thesis and I would like to add an image in a specific place in a chapter. \begin{figure} \begin{center} \includegraphics[scale=0.7]{MC} \caption[Diagram.]{\label{mc_label}Diagram.} \end{center} \end{figure} Generally…
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same font and bold for thesis in chapter, section and so on

I would like to create the format below for my thesis using \documentclass{thesis} Introduction --> no number for chapter Section 1.1. Subsection all of them using same font with text and bold. Please help me as I am beginner for LaTeX and I…
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Create thesis cover

I am trying to write a thesis from scratch. How can I develop a cover page like this? This is my LateX source. \documentclass[12pt]{report} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage{graphicx} \title{ {Thesis Title}\\ {\large Institution…
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Recreating this starting page in a book environment

I am starting to write my thesis, and I am trying to reproduce this starting page in the book document. However I am struggling on putting the image is the same part of the page. Any ideas? Should I use the memoir document instead? This is what I…
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Same numbering in Theorem and Proof

In my thesis, if number theorem statement is 1.12, proof is coming as 1.13. How to make the number of proof as 1.12? I use…
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How to customize Table of contents in thesis

I need help in formatting thesis. I m using isuthesis class. My university guidelines doesnt match with isuthesis TABLE OF CONTENTS STYLE ACCORDING TO UNIVERSITY, The format for typing TABLE OF CONTENTS,LIST OF TABLES LIST OF FIGURES,ABBREVATION and…
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