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Thank you for your template. – Marcin
It’s my first experience with Latex and thanks alot for your template. – John
As a former physics student and someone now involved in the IT field also, I found your site interesting. Thanks for sharing. – Ben
Nice website, I am currently working through my thesis and found your template. Your site sucked me in and read through most of the links. Nice work on the layout, fonts and use of images. Nice work… – Emre Aydin
Thanks alot for your Latex template. I’ll use it for my PhD thesis. – Nhat Vo
Hi, Nice Web page, I’m Starting to write my PhD Thesis, I maybe use your template as a test. It’s my first experience with Latex, thanks for put your thesis as a example. – Luis
Nice website, I am currently working through my thesis and found your template. Your site sucked me in and read through most of the links. Nice work on the layout, fonts and use of images. Nice work… – Mark Millar
I liked your website very much. I am certainly not a web/it geek… i would like to appreciate your designing skills.
I am currently using the latex template downloaded from your website for my thesis. I have found it really useful and almost in a day I started my thesis writing in full swing. Thank you very much! – Rutaonce upon a time, i was going thru an MS thesis, and i just loved the layout. today, after like a long while, and out of a sudden i realized that beautiful template’s source is yours. Just thanks for sharing your good stuff… – Hamed
Hi Sunil, I am writing to you to tell you that this is the best latex site for graduate students I have ever come across. I have bookmarked your site. – Harish Kashyap
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Sunil…great website! Thanks for the clear explanations and the template.
What programs did you use for your figures as yours look amazing! Also are the hyperlinks in the Table of Contents built into the thesis.cls file or .tex file?
You’re welcome, thank you for the compliments! A lot of the drawings were done in Office for Mac 2004 and exported to PDF (graphs in Excel, illustrations in Word). The 3D figures were done using Blender and I’m not sure if I could face doing those again. The Table of Contents are automatically generated from the thesis.tex and Chapter files. You can read more about better images for LaTeX here.
Hi Sunil,
Thanks for sharing your template! So generous of you!
Can you please tell me how you’re able to make author name colour on the title page?
Cheers,
Brett (PhD Student University of Southampton)
Hello Brett,
I think this is done by the hyperref package, which will colour hyperlinks. This is configurable and the documentation is only a search away. I think email link blue is slightly different to web page link blue and inter-document links are different again.
Sunil
Hello Sunil, I have used your template for my thesis and now I want to modify it a bit for ‘just’ a lab report. My only problem now is the chapter headings. I basically just need \section and \subsection commands. However, if I leave out the original commands (\chapter, \label) the section starts with 0.1 Introduction . I’m guessing I have to modify this in the thesis.cls file? Which one exactly I can’t figure out though. Thanks for your help and kudos for your template!
Hi Atika,
The LaTeX Thesis Template is based on LaTeX’s built-in “book” class, which includes chapters, it is not possible to miss chapters out without the numbering going wrong (as you’ve found out). However, you might just be able to put the numbering right by telling LaTeX where the numbering should start from. Take a look at this page:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Document_Structure#Section_numbering
Which will tell you how to set the numbering and counters, read about the “\setcounter{}” command, which is what you’ll need to set.
Sunil