This repository contains a template for writing BSc and MSc (Tech) theses in Tampere University using the LaTeX system. The styles used try to match the official Word template as closely as possible (or is worth the while).
This template makes use of both biblatex and glossaries packages, and therefore needs a non-standard compilation sequence. The following should do the trick, as long as your main project file is named main.tex.
pdflatex main.tex
makeindex -s main.ist -t main.glg -o main.gls main.glo
biber main
pdflatex main.tex
pdflatex main.tex
Go ahead and try to compile the template as is. The finished PDF file contains some directions for using the templates. More helpful instructions can be found in the files as comments.
This template is developed and maintained in Overleaf, and checked to compile under TeX Live 2020 (should also compile with up-to-date MikTeX). Please check your LaTeX distribution version and install the newest versions of the following packages if you run into issues while compiling.
pdfx,ìnputenc,babel,csquotes,hyperreffontenc,helvetgeometry,fancyhdr,setspace,parskip,xcolor,titlesec,titletocenumitem,graphicx,caption,listings,pdfpages,datetime2biblatex,glossariesaccsupp,axessibility,pdfcomment
You can find the template in Overleaf as well. This is, however, the development version and more likely to be unstable or even broken!
Please use the Issues dialogue above if you have found something in the template that needs fixing, or if you have a suggestion for improvement. If you instead have something to ask about the template (clarifications on how to use it, how to accomplish something, etc.), please post your question to Discussions. Be sure to use the Q&A category.
All feedback (preferably in English, Finnish works too) is most welcome!
- Overhaul of the citation and glossary systems; more user control.
- Added support for APA 7 and IEEE style citations.
- Cleaned up tauthesis.cls.
- Published in GitHub for better issues handling mechanism.
- Added support for basic accessibility features:
- Alt texts for images using \pdftooltip{...}{...}
- Specifying mandatory document metadata
- Alt texts for mathematics automatically in compatible environments
- Overall cleaning, better bibliography sorting and examiner functionalities. Major performance and math font improvements!
- Better sorting and display of the bibliography entries, unsorted and last name first.
- Minor terminology fixes.
- Some updates to appearance.
- Removed front matter entries from ToC.
- Fixed a problem with default document class options.
- Updated the template to conform to new appearance guidelines.
- Increased the width of the glossary for it to take less space.
- Added compilation instructions to main.tex as well.
- Fixed encoding issues relating to listings fix for Scandinavian letters in code comments.
- Replaced the glossaries package option xindy to automake. Now the template does not require Perl to be installed.
- Added instructions how to compile the thesis using this template into the conclusion text.
- First published template.