UniTartuCS-thesis-template

Modernized (unofficial) LaTeX template for bachelor's and master's thesis at University of Tartu Institute of Computer Science.

Usage

Setup

1. Overleaf (easy).

   1. Download the template as zip file from here.
   2. Log in to Overleaf.
   3. Click "New Project" (top left) and choose "Upload Project".
   4. Upload the downloaded template zip file.
   5. (Optional) Click "Menu" (top left) and choose thesis language under "Spell check".

2. Visual Studio Code (medium).

   1. Install Ubuntu packages (or equivalent) (in WSL on Windows):

      sudo apt install --no-install-recommends --no-install-suggests texlive-plain-generic texlive-latex-extra texlive-lang-european latexmk texlive-fonts-extra tex-gyre texlive-bibtex-extra biber python3-pygments

   2. Create new GitHub repository with the template from here.
   3. Clone your new GitHub repository locally.
   4. Open it in Visual Studio Code.
   5. Install LaTeX Workshop extension for Visual Studio Code.
   6. (Optional) Install LTeX – LanguageTool grammar/spell checking extension for Visual Studio Code.

3. Command line (hard).

   1. Install packages listed above.
   2. Download the template as zip, or create a new GitHub repository with the template and clone it (described above).
   3. Compile with the following command line command: latexmk -pdf thesis

Configuration

The main file for the thesis is thesis.tex and (example) sections are in sections/. The bibliography is defined in thesis.bib. All the unitartucs* files define the thesis style according to the institute's thesis guidelines and should not be changed.

Follow the TODOs (prefixed with % TODO:) in thesis.tex and sections/info.tex to configure the template:

1. Choose thesis language.
2. Fill in metadata (title, author, etc.).
3. Choose citation and bibliography style.
4. Fill in info page (abstract, keywords, CERCS code).

About

The original (unversioned) template was by Sven Laur, Liina Kamm, Tõnu Tamme, with the last change by Eero Vainikko on 2021-09-14.

The template was modernized by Simmo Saan and is now version controlled on GitHub. Changes are described in CHANGELOG.md. Feel free to open issues on GitHub with problems and suggestions relating to the template. Pull requests with improvements are also welcome.