Templates, exemples, tips and tricks for a smoother experiance with latex, most especialy for a PhD thesis manuscript
The folder these-lpp includes all that is needed to start your PhD manuscript.
The idea is that it can be used as a working template to start quickly your manuscript, as well as a (quite) commented exemple in order to know how to performe certain Latex things.
- Parse a first time the sources :
pdflatex -draftmode manuscript.tex - Generate the bibliography :
bibtex manuscript.aux - Generate the nomenclatires :
makeindex manuscript.nlo -s nomencl.ist -o manuscript.nls - Generate twice the pdf :
pdflatex manuscript.tex
The one liner :
pdflatex -draftmode manuscript.tex && bibtex manuscript.aux && makeindex manuscript.nlo -s nomencl.ist -o manuscript.nls && pdflatex manuscript.tex && pdflatex manuscript.tex
The UPSaclay and IPP covers are included in the template.
THe UPSacaly cover pages are included directly into the file, while the IPParis pages have to be compiled separetely before beeing included as PDFs.
the main reason for that is historic. In the furute version, it should be fixed.
In order to faciliate the writting experiance, we decided to:
- have one main file at the root of the projects
- have each chapter in the subfolder, along with its figure
- have the settings in another file
The usual layout is the A4 format (210 x 297 mm). However, this is more usual to print a manuscript in B5 format (175 x 250 mm).
To do so, once could juste shrink the A5 to B5, but this would chang the font size, the figure size, and so one.
Hence, it is best to set the page geometry with \geometry, or \newgeometry.
It took us a long time to choos the margin. It accually depends on a lot of parameters. For exemple: is it a web version or a printed version, how many pages, what techonoly used to manufacture the book, etc.
The inner margin should be wider than the outer margin (that is only use to put a thumb). however, it is defficult to chose which. That's why we settled with the simples values : 20mm everywhere.
To allow a Figure, or a table, to git in the margin, one can use
\makebox[\textwidth][c]{\includegraphics[width=<extrawidth>]{<figurename>}}%
For instance, extrawidth can be 1.2\textwidth.
Most of the Latex packages used are imported in ./texfiles/settings.tex.
There, a lot is going. Take the time to review the file.
Most of the packages are commented.
Please contact the Laboratory of Plasma Physics communication team for any questions, comments, or anything else.