Additions to template, Rough beamer slide template #9
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| % graphics packages | ||
| \usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx} % remove pdftex if you are not compiling to pdf | ||
| \graphicspath{{./figures/}} % this places all graphics in the figures subdirectory | ||
| \graphicspath{{./figures/}{../figures/}} % this places all graphics in the figures subdirectory |
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why are we adding ../figures/? I'm inclined not to do this (unless there is a reason I'm missing) because it will potentially include figures from a directory that is outside of this repo, which may cause some confusion.
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Unfortunately, this is another artifact of using subfiles across directories. When compiling components individually, the relative path is traced from the subfile and not from the main file.
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| % a copy of thesis.cls in that directory. There should be a way to fix this, but | ||
| % I was forced to move on before figuring it out. | ||
| \usepackage{subfiles} | ||
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I'm a little hesitant to include this for a few reasons:
- I think we would need to solve the problem of including the thesis.cls in the subdirectory, I would prefer not to have duplicate code
- Users can always look up this feature. Although it is nice to include useful things, there does have to be some limit because if we begin including too many things it may become confusing / cluttered. That said, it is always difficult to know where that line should be drawn. I'm open to hearing arguments as to why it should be included, but am leaning toward leaving this one out.
- This might be a bit much for a sample document?
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another thought... in my dissertation I use something like this to include subfiles:
\input{intro.tex}
\input{background.tex}
\input{methods.tex}
although it doesn't allow things to be compiled individually, it does break things up while not depending on an additional package
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I enjoy subfile because I frequently re-compile, and so the time savings adds up quickly for me. Given the messiness introduced by duplicating the thesis.cls file and the extra refactoring it would take to switch the template over to such a model, I think it makes sense to allow users to add this at their own discretion.
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| \chapter[Introduction]{Introduction\footnote{Here is an example of a citation in a chapter heading.}} |
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There are some things about the grad school guidelines that I really don't like :) and this is one of them. I wonder when it would be necessary to actually put a citation in the heading of a chapter? I'm guessing this wouldn't be an actual BibTeX citation?
If we do include this, could we have an actual example, instead of just saying that this is an example? Also, it might be good to have a comment in the code explaining this situation.
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Yes, silly me. I forgot the actual citation!
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I have never had to cite an author in a section heading myself, but I did notice there was an open issue concerning this. The latest commit includes an example of this in the "Citation" section, which seemed more appropriate.
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| This package is free software and your are permitted to use, modify and distribute this software as you like. Please read \aref{appendix:license}, the file \textit{LICENSE} or the source code headers for a full copy of the license. | ||
| \subfile{./subfiles/introduction.tex} % Here is an example of including a chapter as a subfile. | ||
| %You can now edit and compile introduction.tex independently, saving some compile and scrolling time for large documents. |
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Again, I really do like this usage of subfile, I'm just skeptical that it should be in the sample document?
| % Be sure to practice before your talk :) | ||
| \documentclass{beamer} | ||
| \setbeameroption{show only notes} | ||
| \input{./sampleSlides.tex} |
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Can you please submit a separate PR for your slides? I would be open to adding sample beamer slides, but I also have been working on some myself. If you create a separate PR I might try to merge it with what I have and get back to you on this.
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Certainly. I was a little silly for this request and mixed too many commits together; let me start fresh and submit the PRs separately.
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I'm not sure how to create a separate pull request for the slides; I reverted my previous changes and re-committed the slides separately. Now that this request is open, it seems to be absorbing any new commits I make.
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@Optimus-Pine I have added some comments to your PR. Can you please look at them and share any thoughts you have? |
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Hello,
I made some additions to sample.tex. One demonstrates the addition of a footnote to a chapter heading, and the other shows how one can build a larger document in smaller components using
subfile.I also added a basic slide template I used for my defense.
Thank you for constructing this template! My document was accepted with only some minor revisions / text shuffling.
Best,
Sam