LaTeX template for SMC Master's Theses
Put together by Daniel Balcells, based on the UPF PhD Thesis template, with some personal additions for better visual appeal and functionality.
By no means am I a LaTeX expert. This template is the result of adapting a pre-existing template,
using a lot of help from TeX Stack Exchange. As a result, there are some elements of the code
whose behavior I do not fully understand and cannot entirely explain or justify.
Most of the class definition in 0-Misc/smc_thesis.cls
is a mystery to me, although I've added some useful comments to the
main thesis.tex
file; and tried to make this a minimum working prototype that allows the non-expert LaTeX user to focus on
writing without having to deal with the LaTeX code too much. If you're comfortable with LaTeX, feel free to mess
around with the code and try your own variations!
- The main file is
thesis.tex
. It contains the structure of the document rather than the content. - The thesis info (title, author, etc) is in
0-Misc/preamble.tex
. The class definitionsmc_thesis.cls
and the bibliography style definitionauthoryearbrak.cbx
are also in0-Misc/
. - Dedication, acknowledgements and abstract are in
0-Frontstuff
. - Every chapter and appendix should be in a separate folder (i.e.
1-Introduction/
and99-Appendix1/
), containing both the TeX file and a subfolder containing figures. Include these files in the\mainmatter
section ofthesis.txt
e.g.\include{1-Introduction/introduction}
(do not add the.tex
extension in theinclude
command!). - Add your references to
references.bib
using BibTeX format.
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