This repository contains a minimal & modern LaTeX template for dissertations and other university documents.
For the impatient or curious: this is what the template looks like. You may also want to take a look at my my Ph.D. dissertation, which uses a predecessor of this template.
Before going over the details of this template, why not look at how it looks in practice? The following documents have been typeset with this template (or a slightly modified variant of it):
- S. Almasian, Learning Joint Vector Representations of Words and Named Entities, M.Sc. thesis, Heidelberg University, 2018
- K. Hanser, Visualization of Coherence in Meteorological Data, M.Sc. thesis, Heidelberg University, 2018
- P. Jung, On the Frame of Reference in Flow Visualization, M.Sc. thesis, Heidelberg University, 2019
- B. Rieck, Persistent Homology in Multivariate Data Visualization, Ph.D. thesis, Heidelberg University, 2017
This template aims to be…
- clean: no LaTeX trickery
- minimal: no unnecessary adjustments and decorations
- modern: typographically pleasing
It is specifically suited for the European education system because it uses A4 paper size by default—this can be easily adjusted to fit your personal needs, though (see below).
The class is based on KOMA-script
, so it should be
flexible enough to suit virtually any purpose.
- Clone this repository
- Copy the file
mimosis.cls
into your document directory - Add
\documentclass{mimosis}
to your document preamble - Optionally copy the file
Thesis.tex
and the files inSources
as a starting point - Use
latexmk
to build the document usingpdflatex
- Write a nice thesis in LaTeX
The template is based on the excellent KOMA-script
class. You can thus change the appearance of many things quite easily.
For example, if you want the thesis to use the letter
paper format,
just add
\KOMAoptions{paper=letter}
in the preamble of the document and recompile.
The repository comes with an example file called Thesis.tex
. Please
take a look at this file in order for more detailed instructions about
how to use the class.
It is recommended to use latexmk
to build your LaTeX documents. Your
distribution might already have this command. If so, you can use
latexmk
in the main directory of this repository in order to build the example file.
The template uses various LaTeX packages that you should install using your favourite LaTeX distribution. Some distributions already do this automatically when you compile the document for the first time. Others require manual updates. Please refer to the documentation of your LaTeX distribution for more details.
Here is a list of packages that you need (I am using the package name as specified on CTAN):
amsmath
amsthm
booktabs
csquotes
dsfont
glossaries
graphicx
fontspec
(only for LuaTeX and XeTeX users)ifluatex
ifpdf
ifxetex
inputenc
(only for pdfTeX users)koma-script
makeidx
paralist
setspace
siunitx
subcaption
xcolor
xspace
Typesetting the example document requires an additional set of packages. Feel free to remove them, though—they are only used for showcasing how a real document might look like.
For pdfTeX users:
For LuaTeX or XeTeX users:
- The Minion Pro font; please use your favourite search engine for this
or change the line
\setmainfont{Minion Pro}
in the preamble to another font (or leave it out entirely)
The template uses the MIT license. Please see the file
LICENSE.md
in the main directory of the repository for
more details.
If you require additional features, find some bugs, or just have some generic inquiries, please just open an issue in this repository.
Here is a list of contributors:
- Giuseppe (giuscri): improved cleanup operations
- Miloslav Číž (drummyfish): grammar/style corrections for
README
file - Bastian Rieck (Pseudomanifold): original creator and maintainer
- TonyY:
latexmkrc
updates