README

Latex template for master's thesis/short dissertations.

Directory structure

main.tex
├── bibliography
├── figures
├── .github
│   └── workflows
├── sections
└── submitted-version

• main.tex - Run pdflatex/miketex on this file. It will include all subsections, the front matter, abstract, acknowledgments, table of contents/list of figures/list of tables, and the bibliography. You can add/remove sections by adding/removing .tex files in the ./sections directory.

• ./sections It is recommended that all content is added to the respective .tex files in this subdirectory. If you reference figures/import data, the paths are relative to the main.tex file.

• ./bibliography/ Add an arbitrary number of .bib files. Per default, biblatex will try to import a bibliography.bib file from this directory.

• ./figures/ Add figures here (potentially in subdirectories). Can be included in the subsections with paths relative to the main.tex file.

• ./submitted-version For reproducibility etc. it is recommended to store the final .pdf file or important checkpoints in another directory.

• .github Implements a GitHub workflow so that, if the document is branched to GitHub, the pdf is automatically compiled by a GitHub action. It is recommended to disable this action during the writing process, as long as figures are updated as binary file formats (image files) are only poorly supported by GitHub, and without the files, the compilation will fail.

Contributing

Feel free to raise issues or add pull requests to improve this template!