About

Unofficial LaTeX template for PhD theses at the University of Stuttgart, Germany.

Features

UTF-8 files
output format is A5
title page
nice chapter headings
important LaTeX packages are enabled
TeX4ht conversion enabled by make html
biblatex+biber instead of plain bibtex
latexmk

Prerequisite

Windows: Recent MiKTeX
Mac OS X: Recent TeX Live (e.g. through MacTeX) - Try sudo tlmgr update --all if you encounter issues with biblatex
Linux: Recent TeX Live distribution

Usage

thesis-example.tex is the main document
make or latexmk for compilation
make clean or latexmk -C for cleaning up

Using with your git repository

Initialization

This howto assumes that you have not a git repository for your thesis. If you have, just add https://github.com/latextemplates/uni-stuttgart-dissertation-template.git as upstream and merge the branch template into your master branch.

Open command line
git clone https://github.com/latextemplates/uni-stuttgart-dissertation-template.git
cd uni-stuttgart-dissertation-template
git remote rename origin github
git checkout -b master

Now, you are on the master branch, where you can write your thesis and push it to your (remote) origin repository, in case you have one.

Merging updates from the template

If you want to merge updates from github, do the following:

git fetch github
git merge github/template

See also

https://github.com/latextemplates/uni-stuttgart-computer-science-template is a LaTeX template for Master, Bachelor, Diploma, and Student Theses at the University of Stuttgart, Computer Science. It has some more LaTeX packages included.