Latex Thesis Template

Generate a thesis from a mindmap (.mm file).

I suggest using Docear to build such a mindmap. It features an integrated reference manager. References on nodes are transformed to latex citations.

Usage

Structuring the mindmap: see documentation of mm2latex.

Clone:

• git clone --recursive [email protected]:ftes/latex-docear-template (with submodules)

Add (e.g. link):

• body.mm: input mindmap file
• bib.bib: bibliography
• images: folder with images (configure in mindmap as image_directory attribute on root node)

Modify:

• metadata.tex: author name, date, thesis title etc.

Install (dependencies):

• texlive texlive-xetex texlive-bibtex-extra texlive-generic-extra biber: Tex distribution, e.g. Tex Live, and arara
• xsltproc: transforms the mindmap to Latex using an xslt file

Init submodules (if you didn't clone --recursive):

• git submodule init && git submodule update

Build:

• ./build.sh