masterfrontpage

The LaTeX package masterfrontpage is used to generate official front pages for master's theses at the Department of Mathematics at the University of Oslo.

The cover illustration is a section of the root system of the exceptional Lie group E8.

Title page

The package masterfrontpage collects information from the commands

• \author{...},
• \title{...},
• \subtitle{...}.

The front page itself is produced with the command \masterfrontpage. It is optional to use \subtitle{...}.

Use one of the package options LongTitle or ExtraLongTitle if there is not enough room for your title.

If the layout comes out wrong the first time, then recompile.

Colophon

Following the title page, masterfrontpage prints a short text with information about your study programme and the scope of the thesis. The programme is specified with one of the package options

• MAT — Mathematics, Mathematics;
• MFA — Mathematics for applications, Mathematics;
• MEK — Mechanics, Mechanics;
• FFR — Finance, Insurance and Risk, Stochastic Modelling, Statistics and Risk Analysis;
• STK — Statistics, Stochastic Modelling, Statistics and Risk Analysis;
• DS — Data Science, Data Science;
• CSMEK — Mechanics, Computational Science;
• AMRA — Applied Mathematics and Risk Analysis, Computational Science;
• LEKMAT — Mathematics, Lektorprogrammet;
• LEKMEK — Mechanics, Lektorprogrammet;
• OLDFFR — Finance, Insurance and Risk, Modelling and Data Analysis (Discontinued);
• SDATA — Statistics and Data Analysis, Modelling and Data Analysis (Discontinued);
• CS — Computational Science, Computational Science and Engineering (Discontinued);
• OLDMEK — Mechanics, Computational Science and Engineering (Discontinued).

The discontinued study programmes no longer accept new students; they are not discontinued by masterfrontpage.

The scope of the thesis in terms of credits is specified with one of the package options 30 or 60.

Print or web edition

By default, masterfrontpage will produce a front page fitted for viewing on a screen. When printing at the University Print Centre (Reprosentralen), a card stock rim will be added, which steals some of the left margin. In order to compensate for this, we recommend using the option print before submitting the file for printing. This shifts the logo, seal and text to the right.

Language

Choice of language will influence the university's logo, the words "Master's Thesis" and the colophon. Language is preferably given as a document class option. The package recognises the following language options: american, english, UKenglish, USenglish, norsk and nynorsk. If none of these are given, english is chosen by default.

Date

The date can if necessary be overwritten with the TeX primitives \year = yyyy and \month = mm before masterfrontpage is imported.

Compiler

If compiling with xelatex, the white banner will not be transparent. Both pdflatex and lualatex work.

Example

\documentclass[a4paper]{memoir}

\usepackage[AMRA, 30]{masterfrontpage}

\title{Title}
\subtitle{Optional subtitle}
\author{Author's name}

\begin{document}
    \masterfrontpage
\end{document}