Do you care in the slightest about what your readers think about your document, and by proxy about you and your competence level? If yes, then a classy, typographically professional layout and structured, clear, and revealing content can only help. This template tries to aid you in both of these endeavors.
Here’s what the TeXtured Template offers:
- ✨ typographically elegant layout with various features to make your document stand out
- 🧙 clean code structure with plenty of comments to help you easily customize the template to your needs
- 🔗 seamless GitHub integration (via GitHub Actions) to streamline version control and collaboration
- 📄 PDF/A compliance and front matter supporting theses at MFF 🎓
To learn more about the design principles behind TeXtured and its capabilities, look at the
.
It showcases the features of
TeXtured template and provides a guide on how to use them.
Note
Please note that the documentation is still a work-in-progress 🚧, with more guides and explanations to come.
Tip
If you find something interesting or useful, but adopting the whole template is simply too much, feel free to just copy and use relevant parts of the code.
Be sure to have all the dependencies installed (at least the LaTeX build tools), and run
latexmk thesisin the root directory of the repository to build the thesis.
Tip
If you prefer to use 🍃 Overleaf, you can find the TeXtured template
there as well.
LaTeX build tools:
latexmk- LaTeX build toolpdflatex/lualatex- LaTeX engine (you can choose one in.latexmkrc)biber- bibliography processing tool forbiblatex
Warning
At this point it is unclear what is the minimal required LaTeX installation.
Full TeX Live distribution is surely enough, since it is used in GitHub Actions
to automatically build the latest version of the
.
Note
Some scripts assume linux environment. These include:
- generation of directory structure for
aux_dir(dependencies aresed,xargs) - vector figure generation (together with watermark)
- need to enable
--shell-escapein.latexmkrc inkscape- vector graphics (and SVG to PDF conversion)perl- disabling/Interpolationin PDFs generated byinkscapesed- substituting placeholders in PDF watermarkghostscript- injectingpostscriptwatermark into PDF
- need to enable
Version control (optional):
git- (obviously) the preferred version control systemgit-lfs- Git Large File Storage - for storing PDFs, figures, etc.
Exceptions:
- The MFF CUNI logo
MFF-logo.pdfis property of the corresponding faculty, see MFF Visual Identity. - Figure
parallel-plate-capacitor.svg(with corresponding files) is property of Jonáš Dujava.
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Even though you are free to use the source code of TeXtured any way you like, attribution/acknowledgement is welcome.