- Install LaTeX. For Mac OS X, we recommend MacTex (http://tug.org/mactex/); for Windows, MiKTeX (http://miktex.org/); and for Ubuntu, Tex Live (
sudo apt-get install texlive-full
) - Default font is set to Linux Libertine. If you want to instead use the default fonts for the original Dissertate class, install the fonts: EB Garamond, Lato, and Source Code Pro. The files are provided in
fonts/EB Garamond
,fonts/Lato
, andfonts/Source Code Pro
. - Personalize the document by filling out your name and all the other info in
frontmatter/personalize.tex
. - Appendices need to be added by modifying the
\backmatter
command in the .cls file. - Build your dissertation with
build.command
, located in thescripts
directory (e.g., you cancd
into the main directory and then run./scripts/build.command
).
Remove or comment out the line \RaggedRight
from the .cls file.