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 definition smc_thesis.cls and the bibliography style definition authoryearbrak.cbx are also in 0-Misc/.
• Dedication, acknowledgements and abstract are in 0-Frontstuff.
• Every chapter and appendix should be in a separate folder (i.e. 1-Introduction/ and 99-Appendix1/), containing both the TeX file and a subfolder containing figures. Include these files in the \mainmatter section of thesis.txt e.g. \include{1-Introduction/introduction} (do not add the .tex extension in the include command!).
• Add your references to references.bib using BibTeX format.

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