Contents

• Dissertation-Full: My full dissertation
• Dissertation-Template: An empty dissertation template
• Progress-Report: My mid-project progress report
• Proposal: All stages of my initial project proposal

Recommended Latex Setup

• VSCode
• LaTeX Workshop Plugin (Using TeX Live)

Compilation

• To compile any Latex document, open the relevant document.tex file and save it.
• For example, to compile the main dissertation, open ./Dissertation-Full/dissertation.tex and save the file. This automatically compiles all Latex sub-files (such as ./Dissertation-Full/chapters/introduction.tex).
• Compiling updates the PDF file (and spawns many intermediary compilation files, which you can ignore).

Viewing PDFs

• Viewing PDFs is easiest in VSCode, open a new VSCode window containing the PDF (which live updates as the LaTeX is changed).
• Alternatively, the Okular PDF viewer has dark-mode settings for late-night writing sessions (also supports live updating).

Extra files (in ./Dissertation-Full)

• The prooftree.sty and tombstone.sty files are custom LaTeX packages I used. These can be removed if you remove the LaTeX code dependent on them.
• The preamble.sty in this directory contains lots of extra packages. If you remove the contents of all chapter and appendices files, this file can be replaced with minimal_preamble.sty.

Feel free to reuse any LaTeX code in this project, although be warned that it is a little hacky at times.

If there are any issues (large or small), feel free to reach out to me. Pull requests for fixes are very welcome :)

Enjoy,
Dylan :P