About

Unofficial LaTeX template for PhD theses at the University of Stuttgart, Germany.

Features

• UTF-8 files
• output format is A5
• title page
• nice chapter headings
• important LaTeX packages are enabled
• TeX4ht conversion enabled by make html
• biblatex+biber instead of plain bibtex
• latexmk

Prerequisite

• Windows: Recent MiKTeX
• Mac OS X: Recent TeX Live (e.g. through MacTeX) - Try sudo tlmgr update --all if you encounter issues with biblatex
• Linux: Recent TeX Live distribution

Usage

• thesis-example.tex is the main document
• make or latexmk for compilation
• make clean or latexmk -C for cleaning up

Using with your git repository

Initialization

This howto assumes that you have not a git repository for your thesis. If you have, just add https://github.com/latextemplates/uni-stuttgart-dissertation-template.git as upstream and merge the branch template into your master branch.

1. Open command line
2. git clone https://github.com/latextemplates/uni-stuttgart-dissertation-template.git
3. cd uni-stuttgart-dissertation-template
4. git remote rename origin github
5. git checkout -b master

Now, you are on the master branch, where you can write your thesis and push it to your (remote) origin repository, in case you have one.

Merging updates from the template

If you want to merge updates from github, do the following:

1. git fetch github
2. git merge github/template

See also

https://github.com/latextemplates/uni-stuttgart-computer-science-template is a LaTeX template for Master, Bachelor, Diploma, and Student Theses at the University of Stuttgart, Computer Science. It has some more LaTeX packages included.