LaTeX

A Thesis Template

Usable for ETH thesis. Contains all the modern stuff (vector fonts, PDF meta data, etc.) as well as some important documentation (pdf files).

• thesis-template-20071107.tar.gz (9 MB)

Links

• Useful programmes
  • http://jpicedt.sf.net – interactive picture editor for LaTeX and PSTricks
  • http://jabref.sf.net – Reference Manager
  • xfig, jfix, winfig
  • http://fig2vect.sourceforge.net/

Tricks

BibTeX: Multiletter initials in author names

E.g.

author = {Kehl, {\relax Ph}ilippe}

Remove ugly indentations in itemize et al.

Excellent package: enumitem

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%%
%% customise lists (remove ugly indentations)
%%
\usepackage{enumitem}
\setitemize{leftmargin=*}
\setenumerate{leftmargin=*}
\setitemize[1]{label=\tiny\ding{88}}
\setitemize[2]{label=\small\textbf{--}}
\setitemize[3]{label=\textbf{$\cdot$}}
\setitemize[4]{label=\small -}

bzip2 compressed eps

for .tex → .dvi → .ps ( → .pdf)

fig=bildli.eps
grep Bounding > $fig.bb
bzip2 -v9 $fig

\DeclareGraphicsRule{.eps.bz2}{eps}{.eps.bb}{`bzcat #1}

dvips -R0 meier.dvi