Known Gotchas

[bsaul]

• the fontsize for the section titles are set in the layout.tex file is to 12pt, and this is NOT updated by the fontsize setting in the YAML header.

% Section titles
\titleformat{\section}{\normalfont\fontsize{12}{15}\bfseries}{\thesection}{1em}{}

• chapter titles must be ALL CAPS
• use the \mychapter[]{} macro for chapters. If you use the # in a .Rmd, this is converted to a \chapter{} macro, which will not populate the table of contents incorrectly (it put the numbers in front of the chapter entries). Note that the chapter number goes in the brackets.
• the \mychapter[1]{FIRST CHAPTER}\label{firstchapter} macro does not yield the correct references numbers when using \ref{firstchapter}. This can probably be fixed by a LaTeX expert by modifying the command definition in template.tex:

% Use this command to start each chapter
% The format allows chapters in the table 
% of contents to meet grad school requirements
% as of 2017

\newcommand{\mychapter}[2]{
    \setcounter{chapter}{#1}
    \setcounter{section}{0}
    \chapter*{#2}
    \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{#2}
}

Also, unrelated to the template, but other gotchas:

• Do not include titles such as Professor, Doctor, Dr., PhD, or any identifiers such as “chair” or “advisor” before or after any names.