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Previous Comments
Here are some comments brought over from the previous incarnation of this site:
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,
Your template? Great stuff!
Your commented template helped me navigate thru’ the origninal thesis template by Dr Gunn. I’ve adopted yours for its clear documentation. Highly recommended …
However, I need to include a university logo (I can do so easily using the Cambridge template). How could I achieve the same using your template?
Cheddi
Hello Cheddi,
Thank you for your kind comments. About your question, the LaTeX Thesis Template uses a very basic “\maketitlepage” command to produce the front cover. It has very little configuration possible and no images can be included (I think). You can manually create a front cover page, which you can customise to your requirements but I’ll have to refer you to searching on the internet for how to do that. Meanwhile, I would look at the code for the Cambridge template to see how they include the logo and see if you can apply that to the LaTeX Thesis Template to replace the “\maketitlepage”.
Sunil
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
Firstly, thank you for such an excellent template.
I’m trying to figure out how to change the text style of the headers ‘contents’, section headers etc and do not seem to be able to figure it out!
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Sam
Hello Sam, do you want to change the headers and footers that are shown in the “Contents” section?
Thanks for sharing the template. Really nice! Thanks a lot. Just what I was looking for.
Dear Sunil,
Thanks a lot for your excellent effort to help people like me in writing Ph.D thesis with ease.I couldnot believe it.
How ever I have a request please suggest on including figures in my thesis chapters
Could you help me please.Looking forward. Thanks in advance.
Nirmal
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev,Israel.
Hi Nirmal,
What is it you want to do? It’s not clear from your comment?
Thanks, Sunil.
Hi Sunil,
Thank you so much for letting people without much knowledge of LaTeX use your template. Got two questions:
1. Why does it not seem you got equal left and right margin? To take into account space after it has been binded?
2. Why did you need to define in another file Thesis.cls variables that need changing?
Thanks
Sebastian
Hi Sebastian,
Thanks for your comments. In answer to your questions:
Sunil
Hi Sunil,
Could you tell me which variables do I change for the Faculty Name, Department of School Name, and UNIVERSITY BLOCK so it points to my school?
Seb
Hello Sebastian,
This should be in the documentation, supplied as the PDF file with the Thesis Template, please do read it.
Sunil
How do you \ref{something} when that \label {something} is in another Chapter, Sunil? Thanks
OK I got citation to reference in the Bibliography, but how to show more than just [1], because I thought it can also show automatically generated symbols like XYZ09 or other options instead of numbers?
Hello Sebastian,
You should read through the NatBib documentation as this will show you several ways you can have the references/citations labelled.
Sunil
Not sure why \hfill doesnt Right or Left align equations inside \begin {eqnarray} block?
From pdf view jumping back to source code works regardless which part of the pdf section I am in, but jumping from .tex view only works from within the Thesis.tex view? To be specific if I am in one of the Chapters.tex and I wanted to jump to its corresponding pdf view it says Can’t Find File?
I tried to generate other than default [1] as citation inside Thesis.tex with the following
\bibliographystyle{alpha}
\begin{document}
but still the same default [1] instead of alternative automatically generated citation symbol?
Hi Sebastian,
I’m afraid I am not going to provide you with complete all-round support for all your template and LaTeX questions. You need to spend some time learning about the LaTeX system and reading through the various LaTeX packages documentation so you can answer your own questions. This goes for your one below too.
Sunil
Thanks Sunil, I am almost finished thanks for the template anyway. There is something I couldn’t work out though, why the text fonts within the Appendix are all bold for some reason when viewing in PDF viewer, but within the TeXmaker I do not see that?
Is it intentional?
Hey Sunil,
I am using your template and really like it so far. I have problems with the Bibliography, however. I work on a Mac and use TeXworks and BibDesk. When I change the entries in the bib file that comes with your template the changes aren’t visible in the pdf file that is created. I have compiled the tex file with PdfLaTeX and BibTex. Am I missing something?
-Matthias
Hey,
figured it out myself. You actually need to make a reference within the main text. Otherwise the reference doesn’t show up in the Bibliography even though it is listed in the bib file!
-Matthias
Hi, Sunil!
I want to thank you so much for sharing your thesis latex template!
I will use it to write my own phd thesis in anthropology and it’s the most useful and
functional template I’ve found over the Net for a newbie of LaTex!
Cheers from Italy,
Chiara
Hello Chiara,
Thank you for your kind comments about the LaTeX Thesis Template. I’m so glad you have found it useful and easy to use – that’s exactly what it’s meant to be! I hope your PhD thesis write-up goes well.
Sunil
Thanks for your template. I am currently using it to write my thesis. Please what software package did you use for the graphics in your own thesis writeup sample posted on this page
Hello, I used Microsoft Word for the 2-D diagrams and I used the open source software, Blender, for the 3-D rendered diagrams. These were both on the Mac and Office for Mac can save drawing art directly as PDF, which is why the diagrams look so clean and crisp. You can read more about it in the “LaTeX on a Mac” section of this site.
Sunil
Hi. Firstly thanks for your splendid template. I downloaded the Thesis from latextemplates.com
Now the Bibliography doesn’t work. I didn’t change anything so far.
Thanks
Hi Eric, thank you for your kind comments about the LaTeX Thesis Template, I’m glad you’re finding it useful. Do you have a problem with editing the bibliography?
Hello Sunil!
This template is awesome, it’s been of so much help for me! Thanks a lot for putting down the work!
/Johanna
Hello Johanna, thank you for your kind comment about the LaTeX Thesis Template, I’m glad it has helped you with writing your own thesis. Good luck with your writing! Sunil.
Please what did you use to draw the figures in your thesis. They look very very nice and I would love to do the same
Hello Ayo, for the normal 2-D figures I used Microsoft Word (it can be done!). The drawing tools and shapes worked very well for my needs. For the 3-D figures I used Blender, a free 3-D modelling and ray-tracing tool.