Re: wanted: examples of layout details for my thesis

[William F. Adams]

On Nov 21, 2005, at 12:58 PM, Martin A. Hansen wrote:
i have been looking around for examples of other phd thesis with very 
little
success. any pointers would be most welcome!

Have you checked w/ your math/physics/comp-sci department to see if 
they've a LaTeX template?

There're a couple of such on CTAN, http://www.ctan.org

2)
the title page is going to require major ERT hacking if i want to make 
it in
lyx. i am planning on a fulpage watermark with a couple of white boxes 
with
title, author, adress etc. on the other hand, it would be very simple 
to
make in inkscape, export as eps and use the image as coverpage. any
suggestions?

I would suggest a proper documentclass approach so as to preclude 
errors introduced by failing to update the graphic.

3)
the general style of phd thesis from my instutution is composed of a
title-page, summary, introduction, work1, work2, work3... references,
appendices. now, work1--3 ... are published papers where i somehow 
need to
embed these pdf files in the thesis. how can this be done?

\usepackage{pdfpages}

available from CTAN. read the fantastic manual for specific details.

4)
i would like the department logo in the fancy header. how?

the esopic package is one good option for this.

William

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