This package originally provided all the files needed to support the production and typesetting of a PhD dissertation at Harvard, Princeton, and NYU, though it can easily be adapted to meet the requirements of other schools. The format and styling is based closely on the requirements published by each university's registrar. We adapted this template for University of the Bundeswehr in Munich following the requirements the PhD guidelines.
- Pick your school by editing line 6 of
dissertation.tex
to use the optionFAU
. - Personalize the document by filling out your name and all the other info in
frontmatter/personalize.md
. - Begin writing your thesis using the chapter files in 'chapters/'
Remove or comment out the line \RaggedRight
from the .cls file.
Thanks to Andrew Leifer for many code and README contributions and to Clemens Eppner for the Ubuntu instructions.
Note: This template has been preloaded into Overleaf (www.overleaf.com) to make it possible to get started without needing to install anything, and this README file has been updated to reflect this. To use this template on a local machine, please see the original source at https://github.com/suchow/Dissertate
For the source code to the adapted version for Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) you can contact Nikolay Harutyunyan, at nikolay.harutyunyan [at] fau.de.