Making use of the "glossaries" package (that is already being used)…

Follow the "spirit" used for the design (format and contents) of the cover page and create a set of macros to facilitate de design of the book spine.

The cover is missing the target academic degree when using the Ph.D. proposal doctype: \documentclass[doctype=propphd]

The cover shows "Proposta de tese para obtenção do Grau de em Engenharia Informática," instead of "Proposta de tese para obtenção do Grau de Doutor em Engenharia Informática."

on the file unlthesis-files\schools\unl\fcsh\defaults.clo replace line 140 by \parbox[c][][c]{0.95\stockwidth}{\centering\textcolor{fcshblue}{\textbf{\thetitle}}} so as the bigger titles do not get too close to the margins of the paper

The package hyperref ships a neat \autoref command, which I tend to use, but the case is not consistent (developer choice). I end up using both \ref and \autoref, depending on whether I'm starting the sentence with it or not, which means that the hyperlinks sometimes appear in numbers, others also in the preceding word (section, figure, tablet, etc.) This can be fixed, but it could be interesting to provide this out-of-the-box in the template, so it would be harmonized and everyone could benefit from it.

I think it should work like the cleverref package:

• \autoref- figure, table, section, chapter
• \Autoref- Figure, Table, Section, Chapter.

The used case would be up to the writer.

More information here.

Check how to support both (and simultaneously) Appendixes and Annexes in a dissertation.

From @joaomlourenco on December 18, 2016 19:50

From @joaomlourenco on September 23, 2016 14:32

When a title includes a forced line break, e.g.
\title{bla bla bla \ bla bla}
usually for showing better in the cover page, the forced line also shows in the copyright page.

How to print it without the line breaks in the copyright page?

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Add support for a glossary.
— Use one of the standard packages.
— Find the appropriate location for the glossary in the text (maybe after the other indexes?!)
— Create some instructions on how to use the glossary.

Glossary entries point to the beginning of document instead of to the corresponding glossary entry.

From unlthsis to novathesis. Can we do it?

From @joaomlourenco on December 18, 2016 19:50

From @ruimcportela on October 27, 2016 14:19

Como falamos na aula de latex (prof João Lourenço), não existe template para a capa de doutoramento para graus em associação. Por isso venho pedir para fazer um template em latex (pdf em anexo - doc disponível no CLIP).
Obrigado,
Rui
Formatação de capas de dissertações (graus em associação).doc.pdf

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PROBLEM: Current document types include: phd, phdplan, phdprop, msc, mscplan, bsc. As a consequence, sometimes people submit their thesis with the prototype of the jury printed in the cover instead of activating the flag to omit the jury).

PROPOSAL: Replace by a two level scheme, where the first level will specifies the base document type (phd, msc, bsc) and the second level specifies a subclass/stage for the document (plan, proposal, submission, final, inassociation, …)

Page headers are missing in the later release!

Each category of committee member (e.g., chair, raporteur, adviser, member) must have at least one name, otherwise LaTeX processing fails with an error.

Hello,

Is there any plan to include Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa?

Thank you

Add yet another document type for MSc thesis as a Professional Report.

there is a need to replace the \thelastsheet+19 (line 23) by \thelastsheet as this command gives the total number of pages, including the frontmatter, as is on the spine.clo on the unlthesis-files folder.

there is a problem with the long title names (140char) on this spine, as they are written over the green boxes when they run out of space, maybe solved by using a smaller font size whenever the size of the title box is greater than the white space, as when the author title is below the title the box cannot have linebreaks

Much of the documentation (the example text itself) is outdated. Must be rewritten.

Dear all,

I have the \acronymsfile{} not commented but is not being printed. Anyone knows why?

Thank you
Helena

Greetings,

I always get the following compilation error as soon as I try to compile the template:

I'm using TeXMaker on Mac OS X.

Best regards,

Add support for FCSH (explicit request)

Add an option (not the default) to use XeLaTeX instead of LaTeX.

From @joaomlourenco on December 18, 2016 19:49

From @joaomlourenco on December 18, 2016 16:12

From unlthsis to novathesis. Can we do it?

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Allow top change (default) class options in the preamble with:
\unlsetup{key=value, ...}

Incorporate the open pull request #38 for generating a CD Cover from the final delivery of the thesis.

There is a conflict between the memoir class and hyperref package when a subbottom is referenced.

When more than one figure is created with several subfigures, a reference to any subottom will point ALWAYS to the first one.

E.g.,

Chapter 1 has Figure 1.1 with two subfigures (a and b):

\begin{figure}[htbp]
    \centering
    \subbottom[Subbottom 1] {%
        \label{fig:sub1}
        \includegraphics{fig1}
    }~
    \subbottom[Subbottom 2] {%
        \label{fig:sub2}
        \includegraphics{fig2}
    }
    \caption{\emph{subbottom} example}
    \label{fig:1}
\end{figure}

Chapter 2 has Figure 2.1 with two subfigures (a and b):

\begin{figure}[htbp]
    \centering
        \subbottom[Subbottom 3] {%
            \label{fig:sub3}
            \includegraphics{fig3}
        }~
        \subbottom[Subbottom 4] {%
            \label{fig:sub4}
            \includegraphics{fig4}
        }
    \caption{Yet another \emph{subbottom} example}
    \label{fig:2}
\end{figure}

The command \ref{fig:sub3} will print 2.1(a), but the link will point to Figure 1.1(a), instead of pointing to Figure 2.1(a).

Furthermore I get a compiling warning similar to these:

destination with the same identifier (name{subfigure.1}) has been already used, duplicate ignored
destination with the same identifier (name{subfigure.2}) has been already used, duplicate ignored

I saw this problem mentioned here, here, plus in a couple of places, but none of the provided solutions worked.
Additionally, the memoir package manual did not shed any light on the matter.

Is anyone else having this problem? Can you reproduce it? It is important to know this because it can occur due to my setup.

Problem spotted with version 3.1.2 (2016/02/22) and older versions.

There is already some basic support in the translation of keywords. Must more work is needed.

Remove unnecessary "\expandafter".

From @joaomlourenco on December 18, 2016 19:49

From @joaomlourenco on December 12, 2016 23:9

Add yet another document type for MSc thesis as a Professional Report.

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I'm having some trouble adapting the code a colleague used successfully to create a separate acronyms and symbols list.

The Acronyms and Symbols list are to be separate and the symbols list is meant to also include a separate column with the units for the given symbol.

The acronyms and symbols are defined separately in their own files. The acronyms are being defined as:

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%% glossary.tex
%% UNL thesis document file
%%
%% Acronyms definition
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\newacronym{}{}{}

\newacronym{CFD}{CFD}{Computational Fluid Dynamics}

And the symbols:

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%% glossary.tex
%% UNL thesis document file
%%
%% Glossary definition
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% \addto{\captionsportuguese}{
% \renewcommand{\glossaryname}{Symbols List}
% }
%

\newglossaryentry{a_frontal}{name=\ensuremath{a},
description={Frontal area per volume},
symbol={[mm^{-1}]},
sort=Afrontalareapervolume,
type=symbolslist}

The code added was as follows:

In the main .tex file (template.tex):

% The Table of Contents is always printed. % The other lists below may be commented and omitted. \addlisttofrontmatter{\listoffigures} % The List of Figures. Comment to omit. \addlisttofrontmatter{\listoftables} % The List of Tables. Comment to omit. %\addlisttofrontmatter{\lstlistoflistings} % The List of Code Listings. Comment to omit. %\addlisttofrontmatter{\printnoidxglossaries} % The Glossary and List of Acronyms \addlisttofrontmatter{\printnoidxglossary[type=acronyms, style=acronym_long3col]} \addlisttofrontmatter{\printnoidxglossary[type=symbolslist, style=formel_altlong4colheader]}

So here the last two lines are added. A bit further down it now looks like this:

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \thesisfrontmatter % Before the main text (TOC, etc) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \printcoverpage % The cover page \printaftercover \printcopyright % Print the copyright page (will only be printed if adequate for the document type) \printdedicatory % Print the dedicatory (will only be printed if adequate for the document type) \printacknowledgements % Print the acknowledgments (will only be printed if adequate for the document type) \printquote % Print the quote (if file exists and is adequate for the document type) \printabstract % Print abstracts (in PT and EN). The abstract in the document main language will % be printed first, the abstract in the foreign language will be printed second \tableofcontents* % Always print the table of contents \printotherlists % If option 'otherlistsat=front', print other lists of contents according to instructions given above, otherwise do nothing

So "\printotherlists" is activated.

Then, the packages.clo file was also altered from line 52:

`% To process the bibliography
% (This should be listed after the hyperref, otherwise hyperlinks in citations won't work)
\RequirePackage[backend=bibtex]{biblatex}

% Manage glossaries
\RequirePackage[nonumberlist,translate=babel,acronym,toc,shortcuts]{glossaries} % To create glossaries
% \glsdisablehyper

\newglossary[slg]{symbolslist}{syi}{syg}{Symbols List} % AAAALLLLLTTTEEERRRRAAAADDDOOOO

\makenoidxglossaries
\setacronymstyle{long-short}

\newglossarystyle{formel_altlong4colheader}{%
\setglossarystyle{altlong4colheader}%
%
\renewcommand*{\glossaryheader}{%
\bfseries Symbol
& \bfseries Description
& \bfseries Units\
\hline
\\endhead}%
\renewcommand{\glossentry}[2]{%
\glstarget{##1}{\glossentryname{##1}}%
& \glossentrydesc{##1}%
& \glossentrysymbol{##1}%
\tabularnewline % end of row
}%
}
\newglossarystyle{acronym_long3col}{%
\setglossarystyle{long3col}%
%
\renewenvironment{theglossary}%
{\begin{longtable}[l]{@{}p{0.2\hsize}p{0.7\hsize}p{0.01\hsize}@{}}}%
{\end{longtable}}%
\renewcommand{\glossentry}[2]{%
\textbf{\glstarget{##1}{\glossentryname{##1}}}%
& \glossentrydesc{##1}%
\tabularnewline % end of row
}%
}

\setlength{\glsdescwidth}{3in}
}`

However, I'm still getting some very weird errors on compiling the document which lead me to believe that not all is adequately configure. The errors are as follows:

! Missing \endcsname inserted.

\dtl@sortresult
l.279 \printotherlists
% If option 'otherlistsat=front', print other lists ...
The control sequence marked should
not appear between \csname and \endcsname.
! Undefined control sequence.
@gls@sort@A
l.279 \printotherlists
% If option 'otherlistsat=front', print other lists ...
The control sequence at the end of the top line
of your error message was never \def'ed. If you have
misspelled it (e.g., \hobx'), type I' and the correct
spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,
and I'll forget about whatever was undefined.

Now, it does generate a document, but I have to manually activate the "view pdf" option, but there seem to be some incongruities as to what gets printed.

I'm trying to look into other sources that can help me generate what I need, namely this thread on stack exchange.

Any help?

I couldn't make this warning go away:

Package biblatex Warning: Using fall-back BibTeX(8) backend:
(biblatex) functionality may be reduced/unavailable.

I tried setting backend=biber, backend=bibtex, and backend=bibtex8. Either in template.tex documentclass or directly in unlthesis-files/packages.clo, to no avail.

How to reproduce:

pdflatex template.tex

By the way, thanks for unlthesis : -).

From https://code.google.com/p/thesisdifctunl/issues/list?preview=thesisdifctunl%3A23&ts=1405894891&updated=23.

I have build a small code to generate the book spine. However, it does not automatically calculate the adequate width but it does provide a first attempt and in the mean time allows the generation of the book spine

\def\spine#1{\gdef@spine{#1}} % \spine is used to print the author short name (maybe there is a more elegant solution for this
\def@spine{~spine @notdefined}

\def\printthespine{%
\newgeometry{left=0.1cm,right=0.1cm,top=0.1cm,bottom=0.1cm}
\cleardoublepage
\newlength\spinewidth
\setlength\spinewidth{6mm} % Specify accordingly
\null\vfill
\makebox[\paperwidth][c]{%
\framebox[\spinewidth][c]{
%
\begin{minipage}[t][.9\paperheight][c]{\spinewidth}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.95\spinewidth]{./Logo/logoUNL.pdf}
\vfill
\setlength{\textfloatsep}{1pt}
\rotatebox{90}{\tiny
\begin{tabular}{c}
\textbf{@title}
@spine
\end{tabular}}
\vfill
\tiny \textbf{\the\year}
\end{minipage}
}
}
\vfill
\restoregeometry
\cleardoublepage

}

Find a good (and elegant) solution for dealing with acronyms and glossaries.

Consider PhD and MSc covers

Hi, how do I include a list of symbols using this template?

Hi,

I just download the thesis template and was going to start, but when I tired to use: school=unl/ims, I got several error messages and the pdf was not showing the logo.
Is IMS not yet added completely?

Thank you

Update the wiki pages.

It doesn't work. :(

When a title includes a forced line break, e.g.
\title{bla bla bla \ bla bla}
usually for showing better in the cover page, the forced line also shows in the copyright page.

How to print it without the line breaks in the copyright page?

Como falamos na aula de latex (prof João Lourenço), não existe template para a capa de doutoramento para graus em associação. Por isso venho pedir para fazer um template em latex (pdf em anexo - doc disponível no CLIP).
Obrigado,
Rui
Formatação de capas de dissertações (graus em associação).doc.pdf

From @joaomlourenco on December 18, 2016 19:50

From @luismsgomes on September 11, 2016 23:20

I couldn't make this warning go away:

Package biblatex Warning: Using fall-back BibTeX(8) backend:
(biblatex) functionality may be reduced/unavailable.

I tried setting backend=biber, backend=bibtex, and backend=bibtex8. Either in template.tex documentclass or directly in unlthesis-files/packages.clo, to no avail.

How to reproduce:

pdflatex template.tex

By the way, thanks for unlthesis : -).

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Provide support for a few page layouts (chapter title styles + fonts)

Chapter styles ist, elegant and vz14 do not render ''correctly'' italics in the title

From @joaomlourenco on December 18, 2016 19:50

From @joaomlourenco on October 7, 2015 14:17

Chapter styles ist, elegant and vz14 do not render ''correctly'' italics in the title

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When the flag to print the thesis spine is set to true, a compilation error occurs. This has been tested on both a real thesis and with a barebones download-and-compile version of the project.
Compilation error on barebones project:

Processing: Chapters/appendix1.tex

Including: unlthesis-files/Schools/unl/fct/Images/logoUNL.pdf
Latex Error: ./template.tex:271 Missing number, treated as zero.

Latex Error: ./template.tex:271 Illegal unit of measure (pt inserted).

LaTeX Font Warning: Some font shapes were not available, defaults substituted.

Output written on template.pdf (107 pages, 560546 bytes).

Complete transcript is in template.log

Command pdflatex -interaction=nonstopmode -file-line-error-style -synctex=1 exited with status 1

Found 2 errors, and 4 warnings in 1 run

Create a couple of examples with charts for plotting data.
I believe GNU Plot will be the best option for this.

From @joaomlourenco on December 18, 2016 19:50

From @joaomlourenco on November 18, 2016 13:7

PROBLEM: Current document types include: phd, phdplan, phdprop, msc, mscplan, bsc. As a consequence, sometimes people submit their thesis with the prototype of the jury printed in the cover instead of activating the flag to omit the jury).

PROPOSAL: Replace by a two level scheme, where the first level will specifies the base document type (phd, msc, bsc) and the second level specifies a subclass/stage for the document (plan, proposal, submission, final, inassociation, …)

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