thesisucsc

Dissertation Template For UC Santa Cruz

Following UCSC Dissertation Thesis Guidelines (Rev July, 2021)

Inspired by UCSCTHESIS class, but I use scrbook class instead (so almost none of its code is used here).

Repository: https://github.com/GauSyu/thesisucsc maintained by Xu Gao

How to use?

1. Put your notation macros in user/notations ¹
2. Put your enviroment definitions (such as \newtheorem) in user/enviroments ¹
3. Put any other preambles in user/additions ²
4. Put your metadata (such as title, author, field, committeemember, etc.) in metadata
5. Put images in images/
6. Put actual contents in contents/. Note that
   • abstract is in contents/0.1.abstract
   • dedication is in contents/0.2.dedication
   • acknowledgements is in contents/0.3.acknowledgements
   • appendix is in contents/appendix
   • bibliography is in contents/bib ³
   • index is in contents/index ⁴
7. Complie main.tex
8. If you need to use packages or midify the settings, see sample.pdf or below for which .tex file to edit.
9. Now the \maketitle has a stared version \maketitle* which only print the title page, not the copyright.

Modify settings

• Fonts are in file preamble/font
  • Text mainly use PS Type 1 font based on Times. This is done by newtxtext
  • Math fonts: use package newtxmath. Uncomment to use mathalpha and bm
• Layout is in file preamble/layout
  • For page: use package geometry
  • For header and footer: use package scrlayer-scrpage
  • For line spacing: use package setspace
  • For footnote: use package footmisc
• Modify section headings: preamble/section
• Here is bib settings: preambles/bib
• Math settings (such as tikz): preambles/math
• Cross-reference: preambles/refs
• Title page is defined in precontents/titlepage
• Other front page is defined in precontents/front
• Others:
  • preambles/basic: something usually loaded first
  • preambles/bugfix: used to put codes related to bug fix
  • preambles/lmacros: for lower(=non-user) level codes

Some remark

The template minimized the number of packages to avoid conflicts. Some possible conflicts:

• packages modified fonts. Such as amssymb (because newtxmath already loaded TXAMSadd family, if you want to use amssymb instead, give noamssymbols option to newtxmath in )
• out-of-date TeX distribution. Please use a TeX distribution newer than TeX Live 2022.

Footnotes

1. You can empty these file and put your stuff instead. ↩ ↩²

2. Be careful about the package conflicts. One way to handle this is to use scrhack (see the manual of scrbook) ↩

3. I use amsrefs and put bib data directly in contents/bib. If you don't like that, you can instead put \bibliography{your bib file} instead of a raw bib data. Note that no \bibliographystyle is needed. ↩

4. In case you want to customize index ↩