Uses XeLaTeX, TeX Live and xelatexmk. Made for use in VS Code with the LaTeX Workshop extension.

• Fork this repository
• Initialize Git Large File Storage (LFS) by running git lfs install (this is for storing binary files, images, PDFs, etc.). Additional files can be specified in .gitattributes

• Install TeX Live
• Install VS Code and the LaTeX Workshop extension.
• Open the thesis-template.code-workspace in VS Code (maybe rename this file)
• Build the PDF from the TeX menu on the left-hand side. This package used xelatexmk that should take care of the proper amount of runs to get everything working.
• Settings for LaTeX Workshop are stored in the .code-workspace file.

I recommend Zotero for organizing the bibliography as it works much better with biblatex than other solutions I tried. Make sure to install the extension Better BibTeX and use "Better BibLaTeX" when exporting the library (not "Better BibTeX"). Tick the "Keep updated" box to automatically sync the library.

The standard color map of Matplotlib for usage in Inkscape can be found in the graphics subfolder.

The LTeX extension for VS Code seems to work pretty well.

To make glossaries work, a latexmkrc configuration file is used. See also https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1226/how-to-make-latexmk-use-makeglossaries.

Note that when using \Cref the prefix will not be abbreviated. This is expected behavior since in English the first word of a sentence should not be abbreviated according to the documentation.

This package might be useful for drawing optical setups: https://ctan.org/pkg/pst-optexp?lang=en

A .pre-commit-config.yaml is provided for enforcing indentation via latexindent.pl. Install it via pre-commit install.