Using LaTeX to Write a PhD Thesis - Dickimaw Books

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Using LATEX to Write a PhD Thesis
Version 1.3
Nicola L. C. Talbot
Dickimaw Books
www.dickimaw-books.com
16th March, 2013
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Contents
Abstract ix
1 Introduction 1
1.1 BuildingYourDocument . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.1.1 LaTeXmk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
1.1.2 Arara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
2 Getting Started 25
3 SplittingaLargeDocumentintoSeveralFiles 33
4 Formatting 41
4.1 ChangingtheDocumentStyle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
4.2 ChangingthePageStyle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
4.3 Double-Spacing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
4.4 ChangingtheTitlePage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
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Contents
4.5 ListingsandOtherVerbatimText . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
4.6 Tabbing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
4.7 Theorems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
amsthm
4.7.1 The Package . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
ntheorem
4.7.2 The Package . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
4.8 Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
4.9 FormattingSIUnits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
5 Generating a Bibliography 96
5.1 CreatingaBibliographyDatabase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
5.1.1 JabRef . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
5.1.2 Writingthe.bibFileManually. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
5.2 BibTeX. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
5.2.1 Author–YearCitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
5.2.2 Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
5.3 Biblatex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
5.3.1 Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
6 Generating Indexes and Glossaries 148
6.1 UsinganExternalIndexingApplication . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
makeidx
6.1.1 CreatinganIndex( package) . . . . . . . . . . . 150
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6.1.2 Creating Glossaries, Lists of Symbols or Acronyms
glossaries
( package) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
6.2 UsingLATEXtoSortandCollateIndexesorGlossaries(datagidx
package). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
A General Advice 207
A.1 TooManyUnprocessedFloats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
A.2 GeneralThesisWritingAdvice. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Bibliography 215
Acronyms 219
Summary of Commands and Environments 220
Index 256
GNU Free Documentation License 266
History 283
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List of Figures
1.1 SelectingpdfLaTeXfromtheDrop-DownMenu. . . . . . . . 7
1.2 SelectingBibTeXfromtheDrop-DownMenu . . . . . . . . . 8
1.3 AddingMakeglossariestothelistoftoolsinTeXworks . . . 10
1.4 TeXwork’sPreferencesDialogBox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
1.5 AddingLaTeXmkintheTeXWorksToolConfigurationDialog 13
1.6 LaTeXmkToolSelectedinTeXworks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
1.7 AraraInstaller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
1.8 AddingAraraintheTeXWorksToolConfigurationDialog . 19
1.9 UsingArarainTeXworks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
4.1 PageHeaderandFooterElements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
4.2 SampleTitlePage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
5.1 JabRef . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
5.2 JabRefPreferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
5.3 JabRefDatabaseProperties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
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ListofFigures
5.4 JabRef(SelectEntryType) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
5.5 JabRef(NewEntry) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
5.6 JabRef(EnteringtheRequiredFields) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
5.7 JabRef(EnteringOptionalFields) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
5.8 JabRef(AddinganArticle). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
5.9 JabRef(AddingaConferencePaper) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
5.10 JabRef(AddingEditorList) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
5.11 ImportingaPlainTextReference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
5.12 ImportingaPlainTextReference(SelectingaField) . . . . . 115
5.13 ImportingaPlainTextReference(FieldSelected). . . . . . . 117
5.14 JabRefAdvancedPreferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
5.15 JabRefinBibLaTeXMode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
5.16 JabRefinBibLaTeXMode(SelectEntryType) . . . . . . . . . 139
5.17 JabRefinBibLaTeXMode(SettingthePublicationDate). . . 140
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List of Tables
4.1 TheoremStyles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
5.1 NameFormatsforBibliographicData . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
5.2 StandardBiBTeXentrytypes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
5.3 StandardBiBTeXfields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
5.4 RequiredandOptionalFields. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
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Listings
1 GettingStarted. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
thesis.tex
2 SplittingaLargeDocumentintoSeveralFiles( ) 36
intro.tex
3 SplittingaLargeDocumentintoSeveralFiles( ) 38
techintro.tex
4 SplittingaLargeDocumentintoSeveralFiles( ) 39
method.tex
5 SplittingaLargeDocumentintoSeveralFiles( ) 39
results.tex
6 SplittingaLargeDocumentintoSeveralFiles( ) 39
conc.tex
7 SplittingaLargeDocumentintoSeveralFiles( ) . 39
8 ChangingthePageStyle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
9 Double-Spacing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
10 ChangingtheTitlePage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
11 ListingsandOtherVerbatimText . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
amsthm
12 The Package . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
ntheorem
13 The Package. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
14 Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
15 BibTeX. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
16 Author–YearCitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
17 Biblatex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
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Listings
makeidx
18 CreatinganIndex( package) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
makeidx
19 CreatinganIndex( package) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
glossaries
20 CreatingGlossaries,ListsofSymbolsorAcronyms(
package). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
21 UsingLATEXtoSortandCollateIndexesorGlossaries(datagidx
package). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
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