2020/03/07 - Bugfix: Sidenotes module not enabling when the "\sidenotetrue" flag is set. This should be working now.
2020/02/27 - Major restructuring of dissertation template file structure. Generally cleaning up organization and improving workflow. Please open an issue if any problems arise, or if there are conflicts that need to be addressed.
A dissertation template in LaTeX approved by the UGA Graduate School.
The goal of this repository is to cut out all of the hard work of using LaTeX so that one could easily write their dissertation/thesis using this. Here is a list as to why this template is useful:
These sample pages are from an actual UGA dissertation that uses this template. For more details, see below.
We want to give some options such that you can be editing this Template as fast as possible. There are many different ways to run and compile these TeX files. Below will be a list of the options and how to get them set up.
This by far is the easiest way to use LaTeX. Just make an account with Overleaf and you are ready to start. There is a free version and paid version, there are differences and you may not notice them at the start. Overleaf's live preview is really nice, you can see how everything you are typing out is rendering. Potential issues of having too much content that it will take overleaf more than 3 minutes of compile time, which is the limit for the free version. If you happen to run into this, then check out running and compiling locally on your own computer.
Install LaTeX
Download a TeX editor
In the first step, a TeX editor maybe install when you install LaTeX. If thats the case, give it a try and see if you like it. For Example, if you installed TeX for a Windows computer then TeXworks is already installed. Check out and see what all was downloaded when you installed LaTeX from the previous step. Look up how to use it because there are a lot of different editors.
Atom is a good editor to use. You can follow along with this tutorial to get you set up with using atom. (If you are not using a Mac, you can still follow along, just make sure you completed step one above.) Creating Your First PDF with LaTeX and Atom. If you already completed step one here, then you have already completed the first step in the tutorial. I will say that you don't have to download the skim pdf viewer application (step 3), you can install an additional package in atom called 'pdf-view'. TeX already requires you download all of these things, so if you don't want to download another application, then viewing it inside of atom will suffice. The only thing is you will get a red warning message every time you compile because atom is expecting to open skim. This warning message is nothing to worry about, but it can just get annoying.
TeXmaker is also a good editor to use.
Compiling TeX Files
$ man pdflatex
to get started.This TeX project uses the package called subfiles. This allows for the different tex files to be compiled all together without having to compile them all individually. You will only have to compile the main file, which is the 'dissertation.tex' in this case.
Regardless, you will have to compile 4 times to get all the citations and references to be correct. The order of compilation will be:
This pdf contains about a dozen pages from an actual UGA dissertation which implements this template. The pages illustrate the following:
Note that these sample pages implement design choices that have not yet been implemented in this template, such as font choices, page margins, line height, and other typographical elements.
LaTeX tutorials from the Digital Humanities Lab are available at the links below: