[ ] use the \mychapter[]{} macro for chapters. If you use the # in a .Rmd, this is converted to a \chapter{} macro, which will not populate the table of contents incorrectly (it put the numbers in front of the chapter entries). Note that the chapter number goes in the brackets.
[ ] the \mychapter[1]{FIRST CHAPTER}\label{firstchapter} macro does not yield the correct references numbers when using \ref{firstchapter}. This can probably be fixed by a LaTeX expert by modifying the command definition in template.tex:
% Use this command to start each chapter
% The format allows chapters in the table
% of contents to meet grad school requirements
% as of 2017
Also, unrelated to the template, but other gotchas:
- [ ] Do not include titles such as Professor, Doctor, Dr., PhD, or any identifiers such as “chair” or “advisor” before or after any names.
layout.texfile is to 12pt, and this is NOT updated by thefontsizesetting in the YAML header.\mychapter[]{}macro for chapters. If you use the#in a.Rmd, this is converted to a\chapter{}macro, which will not populate the table of contents incorrectly (it put the numbers in front of the chapter entries). Note that the chapter number goes in the brackets.\mychapter[1]{FIRST CHAPTER}\label{firstchapter}macro does not yield the correct references numbers when using\ref{firstchapter}. This can probably be fixed by a LaTeX expert by modifying the command definition intemplate.tex:\newcommand{\mychapter}[2]{ \setcounter{chapter}{#1} \setcounter{section}{0} \chapter*{#2} \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{#2} }