Thesis Template

Dependencies

Dependencies for utilizing the full template and utilities

• pdflatex 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.20
• Inkscape 1.2.2
• gs 9.50
• untex 1.2
• Python 3.8
  • lxml 4.6.5

File Structure

The file structure of the project can be seen below

File Structure

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├── chapters
│   ├── 1-problem
│   ├── 2-problem
│   ├── 3-problem
│   ├── abstract
│   ├── acknowledgements
│   ├── appendix
│   ├── discussion-conclusion
│   ├── example
│   ├── introduction
│   ├── modeling
│   ├── state-of-the-art
│   └── system-setup
├── defs.tex
├── docs
│   ├── drawio.pdf
│   ├── drawio.png
│   ├── drawio.svg
│   ├── sys-schematic-reversed_cropped.svg
│   ├── sys-schematic-reversed.pdf
│   ├── sys-schematic-reversed.png
│   └── sys-schematic-reversed.svg
├── example.bib
├── glossary.tex
├── img
│   ├── front-page-image.png
│   ├── institution-logo.png
│   ├── placeholder.png
│   ├── sdu-logo.png
│   ├── sf-categories.pdf
│   └── sys-schematic-reversed-crop.pdf
├── main.tex
├── main.toc
├── README.md
├── resources
│   ├── resources-appendix.bib
│   ├── resources-example.bib
│   ├── resources-introduction.bib
│   ├── resources-modeling.bib
│   ├── resources-problem-1.bib
│   ├── resources-problem-2.bib
│   ├── resources-problem-3.bib
│   ├── resources-sota-problem-1.bib
│   ├── resources-sota-problem-2.bib
│   ├── resources-sota-problem-3.bib
│   ├── resources-system-setup.bib
│   └── resources-words.bib
├── titlepage.tex
├── utils
│   ├── ncrop
│   ├── pdfcompress
│   └── svg2latex
├── wc.sh
└── wc.tex

Word Count

Since word count is mandatory for certain assignments, a script wc.sh is provided, which generates wc.tex containing the word count. The number is then auto-placed into the generated pdf. The script is auto-run by compiling the main document using pdflatex as shown below

pdflatex main.tex

Figure Handling

When handling figures for $\LaTeX$ documents, two command line tools are developed to make the process less painful: svg2latex and pdfcompress.

svg2latex compiles .svg files with $\LaTeX$ equations into .pdf files without the necessary .pdf_tex, while pdfcompress compresses the pdf using ghost script.

To generate the figure .svg files, tools such as Inkscape, draw.io and matplotlib are recommended and can be compiled to $\LaTeX$ using

svg2latex example.svg

One example can be seen below, where an Inkscape illustration .svg is compiled.

Below is an example generated in draw.io

In these cases, the extra white space is caused by the text box of the inserted text. This can be cropped using Inkscape.

To generate $\LaTeX$ compiled plots, matplotlib supports directly exporting to pdf. First install $\LaTeX$

sudo apt install cm-super texlive-latex-extra

One example can be seen below

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np

plt.rcParams['text.usetex'] = True
x = np.linspace(0, 4 * np.pi, 100)

plt.grid()

y = np.sin(x)
plt.title(r"\Large $$ \textrm{A Title} $$")
plt.xlabel(r"\large $$ t \textrm{ [s]} $$")
plt.ylabel(r"\large $$ v \textrm{ [m\slash s]} $$")
plt.plot(x, y,label=r"$$ \textrm{Signal Velocity} $$")
plt.legend()

plt.show()

If the generated example.pdf is too large, it can be compressed using

pdfcompress example.pdf

This will generate example-comp.pdf using ghost script.

The figure can then be inserted into your $\LaTeX$ document using

\begin{figure}[h]
	\begin{small}
		\begin{center}
			\includegraphics[width=0.8\textwidth]{img/example.pdf}
		\end{center}
		\caption{Example figure.}
		\label{fig:example}
	\end{small}
\end{figure}