It's the template I made for my master Thesis presentation. It can be easily customizable.
In order to use this template, you must have an up to date distribution of LaTeX (MaxTeX for MacOS and TeXLive for Linux and Windows). You can also use some online like Overleaf or ShareLatex.
If you're on Linux or MacOs, you should install latexmk with automate the process of generating LaTeX documents. latexmk is used by the makefile to make the pdf output (latexmk).
You also need pygments if you want to include some source code (pygments).
First of all, you will find the main.tex file. This is the main file of the project.
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└── main/main.tex
Then, there is a bunch of subfiles that can be compiled independently. You can create as many subfiles as you want (preferably using the makefile).
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├── titlepage/titlepage.tex
├── introduction/introduction.tex
├── chap1/chap1.tex
├── chap2/chap2.tex
├── conclusion/conclusion.tex
├── appendixA/appendixA.tex
└── appendixB/appendixB.tex
Other files and folders
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├── Makefile => used to build the project
├── configuration => directory with all the configuration
├── frontmatter => containing everything composing the frontmatter (abstract, list of figures, ...)
├── references => containing your .bib files
├── ressources => you should put all your figures/images/included stuff here
└── snippets => you can find here some usefull snippets (used by the makefile to generate things)
The Makefile is used to
| command | commentary |
|---|---|
make |
Build the entire project |
make pdf |
Build the entire project |
make watch |
Watch for changes and rebuild the entire project |
make open |
Open the generated pdf |
make clean |
Clean the main/build directory |
| command | filename | commentary |
|---|---|---|
make pdf |
f=filename |
Build the subfile located filename/filename.tex into filename/filename.pdf |
make watch |
f=filename |
Watch the file for changes |
make open |
f=filename |
Open the pdf file corresponding to the filename |
| command | filename | type | commentary |
|---|---|---|---|
make pdf |
f=filename |
t=tikz |
Build ressources/tikz/filename.tex into ressources/tikz/filename.pdf |
make pdf |
t=tikz |
Build all .tex files into the ressources/tikz/ folder into .pdf files |
|
make watch |
f=filename |
t=tikz |
Continuously compile a tikz file into a pdf |
make open |
f=filename |
t=tikz |
Open the pdf file corresponding to the Tikz figure |
You can create as many subfiles as you want
| command | filename | commentary |
|---|---|---|
make subfile |
f=filename |
Create a folder and a file filename/filename.tex with everything needed to make a subfile |
| command | filename | commentary |
|---|---|---|
make tikz |
f=filename |
Create a standalone .tex containing a tikz picture here ressources/tikz/filename.tex |
Everything is customizable.
Most of the customization can be done in configuration/variables.tex:
- Title page logos and names
- Colors
- Name of list of source code, list of tables, table of contents, nomenclature, ...
\begin{figure}[htbp]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.8\textwidth]{image1.jpg}
\caption{caption}%
\label{fig:label}
\end{figure}\begin{figure}[htbp]
\centering
\begin{subfigure}[t]{0.49\textwidth}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.9\textwidth]{image2.jpg}
\caption{Very very long caption for a subfigure. This is setup with subcaption package.}%
\label{fig:1a}
\end{subfigure}
\hfill
\begin{subfigure}[t]{0.49\textwidth}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.9\textwidth]{image3.jpg}
\caption{Short caption}%
\label{fig:1b}
\end{subfigure}
\caption{Main figure caption. I add some text so that the caption is taking multiple lines.}%
\label{fig:1}
\end{figure}\begin{wrapfigure}{r}{0.5\textwidth} % l for left, r for right
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.4\textwidth]{image4.jpg}%
\caption{caption}%
\label{fig:wrapfig}
\end{wrapfigure}\begin{listing}[H]
\begin{pythoncode}
def get_path_leaf(path):
""" return the leaf of a path. """
if not isinstance(path, str):
path = str(path)
head, tail = ntpath.split(path)
return tail or ntpath.basename(head)
\end{pythoncode}
\caption{SPARQL Endpoint}%
\label{lst:SPARQL Endpoint}
\end{listing}You can also insert directly a source code file (your file must be inside the ressources/code/ folder)
\begin{listing}[H]
\pythonfile{\codefolder{hello-world.py}}
\caption{This piece of code is an included file}%
\label{lst:included-code}%
\end{listing}You should create one .tex file for each Tikz picture with the standalone class as below.
\documentclass[12pt,tikz]{standalone}
\ifstandalone%
\usepackage{import}
\import{../../configuration/}{comon_packages.tex}%
\import{../../configuration/}{variables.tex}%
\import{../../configuration/}{conftikz.tex}%
\import{../../configuration/}{custom_config.tex}%
\fi
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\draw[->] (0, 0) -- (0, 1);
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}This file should be located in the ressources/tikz/ directory. This permit to compile this file on its own. Alternatively, you can use make tikz f=filename to create a this tikz file.
To include it into your document, you could use \includestandalone like below.
\begin{figure}[htbp]
\centering
\includestandalone{filename}
\caption{Caption}%
\label{fig:label}
\end{figure}But it will compile each time you make your main file and it will not work for subfiles for some reasons.
You should instead generate a pdf from this tikz file (using make pdf f=filename t=tikz). It will create the file filename.pdf in the same directory (ressources/tikz).
You can then include it using \includegraphics.
\begin{figure}[htbp]
\centering
\includegraphics{filename}
\caption{Caption}%
\label{fig:label}
\end{figure}It will produce the exact same output but with no compilation time.