This template is the result of an ongoing group effort by a number of volunteers. Help your fellow PhD researcher in the Issues section and contribute updates if you can. If you are fluent in TeX and can help monitoring this repository, ask Wannes Meert for admin rights.
If you want to share tips, tricks, updates, questions or problems: add them as a GitHub issue or a GitHub pull request.
The template is updated to follow the new cover used by the different doctoral schools (November 2024).
There is a new (experimental) option helveticaneue to follow the new style
that uses Helvetica Neue (otherwise Helvetica is used). If you activate this
option, make sure to compile using lualatex or xelatex. These compilers
have access to the fonts on your computers.
This package provides a template when submitting a Phd dissertation to the Arenberg Doctoral School at KU Leuven.
Latest version of the ADS PhD template is available at github.com/wannesm/adsphd.
Questions and issues can be submitted to the ADS PhD issues component at Github.
The directory structure looks like this
thesis.tex: Main tex file for the final booklet.run.py: Simple compilation script.MakefileMakefile.settings: This file contains file names and other settings used by make.chapterschapter1: Per chapter a directory withchapter1.tex: Tex file with identical nameimage/: Images directory. Note that to include a figure in chapter1.tex, you should NOT include the relative path, i.e.,\includegraphics{myfigure}and not{image/myfigure}!
The adsphd.cls class can be used directly by latex:
pdflatex thesis
bibtex thesis
# biber thesis
makeindex thesis.glo -s thesis.ist -t thesis.glg -o thesis.gls
makeindex thesis.nlo -s nomencl.ist -o thesis.nls
pdflatex thesis
pdflatex thesis
Any other Latex build tool like latexmk, rubber, SCons, TeXShop or TeXWorks
should also work out of the box (makeindex might not run by default in which
case you will not see the glossary).
There is a simple and naive Python compilation script supplied which should work cross-platform.
python3 run.py # Compile to pdf
python3 run.py clean # Clean auxiliary files
python3 run.py realclean # Clean everything
python3 run.py newchapter # Set up files for a new chapter
python3 run.py --help # Help and more options
Some settings are available at the top of the run.py file.
Some convenient Makefile targets:
In the main directory [./]:
make # create the full booklet thesis.pdf
make clean
make realclean # cleanup all mess, including leftover
# {dvi,pdf,ps} files of main file or the
# chapters
make damnthatsreallyclean # brutally remove all possible temporary
# files
In a chapter directory [./chapters/chapterX]:
For this to work you need to generate the chapter directory using the
makeemptychapter.sh script which also generates a custom Makefile for
the new chapter.
make # Creates chapterX.pdf containing the
# TOC, the contents of only chapterX and
# the bibliography.
make bare # Create chapterX.pdf containing only the
# chapter text (no TOC, no bibliography).
make clean # remove temporary files left from
# compilation
make realclean # clean + also remove {ps,pdf} files
make figurelist # Print out the names of all figures that are
effectively used in ./chapters/chapterX/chapterX.tex
make cover # Generate a separate pdf the cover
Creating a chapter directory:
./chapters/makeemptychapter.sh # Create the directory structure for a new
# chapter.
Settings:
Settings for the Makefile script can be found in the makefile.settings
file.
faculty : faculty
[firw] Faculty of Engineering Science
[fbiw] Faculty of Bioscience Engineering
[fw] Faculty of Science
[fa] Faculty of Architecture
[fiiw] Faculty of Engineering Technology
[hiw] Institute of Philosophy
department : department
[aow] Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
[arc] Department of Architecture
[bio] Department of Biology
[bsy] Department of Biosystems
[bwk] Department of Civil Engineering
[che] Department of Chemistry
[cit] Department of Chemical Engineering
[cws] Department of Computer Science
[elt] Department of Electrical Engineering
[mtk] Department of Materials Engineering
[mms] Department of Microbial and Molecular Systems
[nat] Department of Physics and Astronomy
[wtk] Department of Mechanical Engineering
[wis] Department of Mathematics
[cespp] Centre for Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy
[clps] Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science
[cmprpc] Centre for Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion and Philosophy of Culture
[dwmc] De Wulf-Mansion Centre for Ancient, Medieaval and Renaissance Philosophy
[hua] Husserl-Archives: Centre for Phenomenology and Continental Philosophy
phddegree : official PhD degree on diploma (only for the
faculties of Engineering Science and Science)
faculty=firw
[arc] Doctor of Engineering Science (PhD): Architecture
[bwk] Doctor of Engineering Science (PhD): Civil Engineering
[cit] Doctor of Engineering Science (PhD): Chemical Engineering
[cws] Doctor of Engineering Science (PhD): Computer Science
[elt] Doctor of Engineering Science (PhD): Electrical Engineering
[mtk] Doctor of Engineering Science (PhD): Materials Engineering
[wtk] Doctor of Engineering Science (PhD): Mechanical Engineering
[gen] Doctor of Engineering Science (PhD)
faculty=fw
[ste] Doctor of Science (PhD): Astronomy and Astrophysics
[bct] Doctor of Science (PhD): Biochemistry and Biotechnology
[bio] Doctor of Science (PhD): Biology
[bfy] Doctor of Science (PhD): Biophysics
[che] Doctor of Science (PhD): Chemistry
[ggr] Doctor of Science (PhD): Geography
[glo] Doctor of Science (PhD): Geology
[inf] Doctor of Science (PhD): Informatics
[mat] Doctor of Science (PhD): Mathematics
[fys] Doctor of Science (PhD): Physics
[sta] Doctor of Science (PhD): Statistics
[tou] Doctor of Science (PhD): Tourism
[gen] Doctor of Science (PhD)
10pt, 11pt, 12pt : text point size
oneside, twoside
showgit : when showing extra info (with [info] or
[frame] option), also show git version.
You need to run latex with '-shell-escape'
for this to work! (default in Makefile)
british : Use British spelling in cover (i.e.
fulfilment instead of fulfillment)
showinstructions : show instructions provided by the
faculty. These can be included anywhere
in the tex by commands of the form
\instructionsabstract,
\instructionsintroduction, ...
info : put logical page on physical A4 paper and
show some info (compilation time, ...)
draft : show info and compile the document as a
draft
tothejury : generate a version of the document
suitable to send to the jury. This means
that the logical page is put on an A4
without info, frame, ...
final : generate true size (cropped!) pdf without
info, frame, ...
print : generate true size (cropped!) pdf without
info, frame, ... suitable for
printing (basically equal to final, but
forcing uncolored links, even when this
option is given explicitly)
online : generate true size (cropped!) pdf without
info, frame, ... suitable for
printing (basically equal to final, but
forcing colored links)
croppedpdf : generate true size pdf
frame : put frame around the logical page and
place the result on an A4 page
cam : instead of a frame, use cropmarks
cropmarks : identical to cam
epub : use a small page size that works better on an
epub reader (e.g. Kindle)
coverfontpercent=<int>: change the cover title font size. Should
be an integer number between 1 and 100.
helveticaneue : Use the Helvetica Neue font instead of Helvetica.
Helvetica Neueu is the font used by KU Leuven but
requires LuaLaTeX or XeLaTex instead of pdflatex.
joint : Change the cover to the cover for a joint
PhD dissertation.
Most of the useful commands provided by this class can be found in the provided
example file thesis.tex.
Inclusion of normal chapters
Use the command \includechapter{.}, e.g.,
\includechapter{introduction}
includes ./chapters/introduction/introduction.tex.
If the chapter is an appendix, use \includeappendix{.}!
Inclusion of 'special' chapters
The term 'special' chapters refers to the
- preface (
preface) - dutch preface (
prefacenl) - abstract (
abstract) - dutch abstract (
abstractnl) - list of publications (
publications) - curriculum vitae (
cv)
To include any of the above, use the command
\includeXXX{filename}
where XXX stands for the name indicated in between brackets above, and filename
is as in the \includechapter command. For instance,
\includeappendix{myappendix} % includes ./chapters/myappendix/myappendix.tex as an appendix
Other special chapters are
- list of figures
- list of tables
- table of contents
- bibliography
but these different from the above as they are generated using standard
commands (\listoffigures, \listoftables, \tableofcontents,
\includebibliography).
For typical usage, see the provided file thesis.tex.
The following packages are loaded automatically by the adsphd.cls class:
- babel
- calc
- datatool
- etoolbox
- fancyhdr
- fontenc
- framed
- geometry
- hyperref
- ifpdf
- iftex
- ifthen
- kvoptions
- listings
- lmodern
- microtype
- placeins
- rotating
- setspace
- showlabels
- textpos
- xcolor
Most printing services will create their own cover page based on the details you send them (title, name, affiliation, ...). The template generates only a front and back cover for the version you want to distribute online, not for the version you send to the printing service.
However, the template has some support to create a separate cover page. Use
make cover or python run.py cover to generate cover.tex and run.
- To be able to make the chapter compilation work, you should make sure that
the desired chapter is included in thesis.tex (e.g., using
\includechapter{introduction})!! - If you get spurious empty pages when compiling a single chapter, this is
probably due to the combination of
\cleardoublepageand\includeonly. To avoid it, make sure you end all included chapters (and appendices) with\cleardoublepage(if you usemakeemptychapter.shto generate the chapter skeleton this is automatically done!)
Wannes Meert, Yves Frederix, Bart Vandewoestyne, Nele Famaey, Tias Guns, Jan Hendrik Becker, Steven Op de beeck, Frederik Colle, Dominique Devriese, Marko van Dooren, Rutger Claes, Dirk Van Hertem, Anthony Van Herrewege, Tassos Natsakis, Till Nagel, Job Noormal, Jesper Cockx, Laurens Sion, Felipe Morales, Pieter Maene, Roel Van Beeumen.