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Answers to questions that are directly related to the report/thesis template can be found below. More general questions and answers have been incorporated in a quick reference manual and can now be found under the 'Learn' menu. Some quick shortcuts:

→ How to change the style or sorting order of the bibliography? → How to cross-reference with 'cleveref'? → How to include source code with 'listings'?

Using the template in Dutch ​

Although the template is fully in English, switching to Dutch (or any other language) has been made as easy as possible. There is no hardcoded English in the class file, leaving only the document files to be translated. Some notes:

• Making sure the appropriate hyphenation rules and quotes are used can be done by adding babel and csquotes to the preamble:
• The affiliation on the cover is defined with \affiliation{} in report.tex .
• Adding babel will also ensure a translated title of the table of contents.
• The references can be renamed by changing the title=References option of the \printbibliography command in report.tex .

Creative Spacing ​

Meeting the page limit requirements is nothing more than using spacing creatively. As such, here is an incomplete list to change some of these spacings. Changing the spacing has to be done in the class file ( tudelft-report.cls ), unless stated otherwise. In some cases, the spacing can be negative to reduce whitespace to the absolute minimum.

Page margins The geometry of the page is defined with the command below. You could change the scale to your desire, replace it with a simple margin=<length> or fine-tune it with many different parameters. For the latter option, visit the Overleaf guide on page size and margins.

Titles ( \chapter , \section , etc) and their spacing The titles and its spacings are defined by \titleformat and \titlespacing . For example, the \chapter is defined by:

To give some ideas: (1) the size of the chapter number is defined by \fontsize{96}{96} , (2) the size of the title is defined by \Huge and (3) the spacing between the title and the text is defined by 2\baselineskip . The formatting of the sections is done in similar fashion. See the container at the bottom of this section for more details about the \titleformat command.

If you would like to move the chapter number to the same line as the chapter title, replace the titleformat command (line 2-6 in the previous code block) with:

Table with authors on the cover ​

As the \author{} command will break if any LaTeX commands are included, version 1.5 added the \covertable{} command to easily add a table of authors on the cover page. The \author{} command will still have to be defined and will be added to the metadata of the PDF, the title page and preface. The cover page will instead use \covertable{} if it is defined. Although you could theoretically use the command however you want, an example with the intended use-case can be found below:

More cover images with open licenses ​

An additional six high quality cover images related to aerospace engineering can be found below. Make sure to appropriately credit the image if you decide to use one of them.

The recommended color of the title as a HTML color code is 4884d6 for the first two images. For the third and fourth image fe860e is recommended. For the final two images, the title color e3a01b is recommended.

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Fork of TU Delft's LaTeX template made git-ready and other improvements

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This is a fork of the TU Delft LaTeX dissertation template found at https://www.tudelft.nl/en/tu-delft-corporate-design/downloads/ .

The main changes in this document are that the folders are reorganized and made more git-ready. The bibtex reference manager has also been changed to biblatex and other packages have been included to fix some formatting glitches. Also, it's in A4 size now!

These documents, as they exist, are still highly dependent on many font packages that TeXShop or some other large version of TeX comes with, but I am running it with BasicTeX. In my own repo, which I will eventually make public, I have made other modifications to the fonts, layout, and of course, content. If you have a full LaTeX distribution or compile it online (see below), then you shouldn't need to worry about this.

If you are compiling locally, just run make in your terminal, which should run xelatex and biber a few times iteratively (automagically) until it works! make clean will remove all the temporary and auxiliary files in your workspace.

Including SVGs

The svg LaTeX package allows \includesvg or \includeinkscape to be used to directly include SVGs into the compiled document. However, this process requires many external dependencies and more steps to set up. The package's documentation is a bit confusing to read, but this Stackoverflow post (of course) is a great explanation of its workflow. In summary, it requires a user to either have Inkscape 1.0 (previous or beta builds won't work) or Imagemagick installed. Both are very useful tools to have in general.

If you are using macOS, there is an additional step required after you install Inkscape (that is not documented well online). You need to allow the LaTeX compiler access Inkscape through the command line either by adding the program as an alias or to PATH. On macOS Catalina, this is done with alias inkscape="/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/MacOS/inkscape" && source ~/.zshrc or sudo ln -s /Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/MacOS/inkscape /usr/local/bin .

Next, you will need to tell the svg package to load Inkscape with its absolute file path. In 0_dissertation.cls , uncomment the line \RequirePackage[inkscapeexe=/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/MacOS/inkscape,inkscapearea=page]{svg} .

Lastly, note that if the SVG contains text (labels, titles, etc.) that contain the underscore '_', then it will make the whole compilation quite unhappy. The svg package can deal with some of these, but not all. In this case, one can add a flag to the package to tell it to maintain the original text. The downside here is that the font may become inconsistent.

For example, to include some file named graph.svg (not yet included), use \includesvg[inkscapelatex=false,width=\textwidth]{04_chapter-1/figures/graph} .

This configuration will create a folder in the main working directory to store the PDF files that it generates. If you prefer to have the PDF render in the same folder as the SVG file, then invoke the inkscapepath=svgpath parameter.

Continuous Integration/Deployment

Compiling LaTeX in the cloud has the benefit that you can ensure your file works outside of your own local environment. Though the main use will probably just be when you need to re-run everything again if you ever re–visit your thesis, if you switch computers, or if someone else wants to compile your source files for some reason.

A good practice, though not fully implemented in this repository because it is a template, is to keep your master branch clean and only do Pull Requests from other branches into master . Your CI/CD tools can be configured to only compile after such a Pull Request instead of for every time a repository changes!

GitLab has built-in CI/CD tools. If you're using this with GitLab (you need only need a GitLab account and can keep your thesis private), you'll need to configure a few things for everything to run smoothly. If you want to use GitLab and not have it compile online, delete the .gitlab-ci.yml file .

First, configure an SSH key–pair (e.g. run ssh-keygen -f deploy_key -N "" -C "[email protected]" ), where you can replace [email protected] with your own email. It makes sense to make this something other than your primary (GitLab) email (i.e. make it easily identifiable as a bot!).

Then, copy the contents of deploy_key.pub in Settings > Repository > Deploy Keys , and those of deploy_key as a the value for the variable key SSH_PRIVATE_KEY in Settings > CI / CD > Variables ( see here for a more thorough walkthrough ).

With this configured, every time you commit and push your file to GitLab, it should run a job and compile your main .tex file (along with its inputs) into a PDF and put it onto your repository!

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This option requires TravisCI or CircleCI, which means you have to make or configure more accounts. TravisCI also only provides free CI time for open–source repositories. Make sure you are OK with make your own project public if you want to go down that route.

VS Code Integration

I run LaTeX locally rather than through a cloud service. I wrote a blog post about why and how I've set it all up. This is why the .gitignore file includes some VS Code-friendly entries too.

• v1.2.3 Now supports SVG on the fly using the LaTeX svg package (requires Inkscape or Imagemagick – see above)
• v1.2.2 References now work properly across chapters and readme updated with blog and make clean info
• v1.2.1 Built in continuous integration (CI)
• v1.2 Added another chapter 2 as a barebones example
• v1.1 Restructured folders and files to be git compatible
• v1.0 TU Delft Template

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