compor/uoe-inf-thesis-skeleton

University of Edinburgh Informatics thesis skeleton using markdown, pandoc and cmake

University of Edinburgh Informatics thesis template

Introduction

This is a skeleton directory for typesetting an example of a thesis following the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, stylistic criteria.

Build status

Requirements

• pandoc
• LaTeX distribution like TeX Live (used by pandoc)
• cmake 2.8 and above
• for further dependencies check the submodules used:
  • UoE Informatics thesis LaTeX class
  • Tom's PhD thesis template
  • pandocology

Building

To build perform the following steps:

• git clone --recursive https://github.com/compor/uoe-inf-thesis-skeleton.git
• mkdir build && cd build
• cmake [path to this source repo]
• source exports.sh && make
• open product/thesis.pdf with a PDF viewer

The exports.sh is required to set the TEXMFLOCAL environmental variable for the specific LaTeX classes and style files used.

Credits

• Daniel for providing the UoE Informatics latex and class files online
• Tom for providing his more comprehensive template. Please follow the instructions in this page to provide appropriate credit.
• pandocology