I am looking for a most minimum template/example for a LaTeX Ph.D. thesis.  I am going to write a dissertation/Ph.D. thesis.  I use Ubuntu with pdflatex (minimum installation of TeX Live). The goal is to keep it smallest as possible for a Ph.D. Thesis, using pdflatex.  The use of no packages (usepackage) would be ideal, if it may be possible.   thank you
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Aside from CTAN, what are good resources/repositories for Latex templates? In particular, I'm looking for some pretty Thesis templates (I'm familiar with classicthesis)
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I'd like to learn and use LaTeX on Ubuntu.  What packages do I need?  What is the best editor for LaTeX code on Ubuntu for a new LaTeX user?  I'd also like the ability to see the code in one pane and the results in a second pane, if possible -- not necessarily WYSIWYG, though.
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It looks there is a problem with TexShop and multibib package. multibib package expects that you do bibtex xxx where xxx is your own newcites. However, when using TexShop it looks like it only does it for the main document. Therefore, the only way I have to make it work is to do it from command line (notice the bibtex xxx):   pdflatex main  bibtex main  bibtex xxx  pdflatex main  pdflatex main   Do you know a workaround I can do so that I can latex without problem in any IDE?  Thanks!
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I am giving a LaTeX course and have the idea to let the students find and solve problems within a few documents. Basically they shall learn how to create minimal examples and read error messages.  However, currently I have no document with 'typical' errors around.  If someone has such examples from him- or herself or within this forum I would like to have the code or link. It does not matter if its short or long. It should just be enough to let the students play with it for some minutes.
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How do I create something like this without getting any errors?  \begin{thm}[\cite[page 10]{ABC2011}] ... \end{thm}   I tried putting various things into {...} brackets, but not eliminating any errors. I probably have misunderstood something about how LaTeX works in the background and the AMS packet:  \usepackage[amsmath,thmmarks]{ntheorem}
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If you have a TeX'ed resume, did you use a template or make your own? Are there any useful packages? What looks the most professional? How about special considerations for different areas of work (e.g. in academia)?
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Some research papers available on the web have low-quality outputs. For example, see . It seems that it was converted from a PS file and typeset in (La)TeX. However, it has all the font information. Is there any way to make the PDF file clearer?
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What packages do you use and recommend for creating graphics in your LaTeX documents?     As this is a community wiki post, please add your package to the accepted answer (or add a comment, and someone with >100 rep will add it to the CW answer), and include a brief description of what differentiates it from others and how it can be used (GUI drawing tool which generates code, type in raw text, or generates image for inclusion in document).   We'll eventually sort these answers under headings.
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I tried googling this elsewhere but I'm new to LaTeX and extremely confused about certain things. Basically I downloaded MikteX and I'm using the latest version of Lyx with it. Now all I basically know how to do is make pretty looking mathematics and add contents pages/titles/references/etc.  I'm looking to make a dissertation and my unviersity provides a template,  (available for download at that link).  So, what exactly do I need to do (and please be super specific as I am totally clueless to all the jargon I read).   Basically, I need to download ociamthesis.cls in the first line of that webpage. Does it matter where I save it? What exactly do I do next?
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I'm using  editor. There is no problem when I run others  .tex article in Kile. But problem is when I run a thesis article in KILE. This thesis article is running fine in      \documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{thesis}     \usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{amssymb}     \usepackage{graphicx}   Is there anything need to add in KILE setting to run the Thesis .tex in KILE?  This is the log file:  This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (TeX Live 2009/Debian) (format=latex 2013.3.7)  25 AUG 2013 23:37 entering extended mode  %&amp;-line parsing enabled. **Thesis-Aug24-2013.tex (./Thesis-Aug24-2013.tex LaTeX2e &lt;2009/09/24&gt; Babel &lt;v3.8l&gt; and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax, dumylang, noh yphenation, loaded.  ! LaTeX Error: File `thesis.cls' not found.  Type X to quit or &lt;RETURN&gt; to proceed, or enter new name. (Default extension: cls)  Enter file name:  ! Emergency stop. &lt;read *&gt;   l.2 \usepackage                {amsmath}\usepackage{amssymb}^^M *** (cannot \read from terminal in nonstop modes)   Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:  10 strings out of 495062  226 string characters out of 1182645  45108 words of memory out of 3000000  3285 multiletter control sequences out of 15000+50000  3640 words of font info for 14 fonts, out of 3000000 for 9000  28 hyphenation exceptions out of 8191  10i,0n,7p,80b,8s stack positions out of 5000i,500n,10000p,200000b,50000s No pages of output.
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Please help me install latex (texstudio or texlive or any other package) in my laptop. I am using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
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Im quite new to LaTex but i am willing to learn how to style my own Thesis instead of just copy and paste some code from a template.   Now im facing a problem. I would like to style my thesis similar to that example:     Sure, the CleanThesis Template can do that, but i dont really want to include all the other code which i maybe dont neeed at all.   Therefore i would like to ask you, how i can implement the red marked behaviour. In CleanThesis the big "Section" Numbers are in fact Chapter numbers. Since my thesis is based on the "article" class i dont have chapters at all. Is it also possible to style the main "sections"   \section{some Section}   according to my example? Or is it only possible for Chapters?  Thank you :)  Edit 1: It is also important for me to learn how to put the subsection number (here 2.1) beneath or "outside" of the textblock  Edit 2:  Now i have changed my class to scrreprt to include koma script.  Then i added the following:   \definecolor{chaptercolor}{rgb}{0.36,0.73,0.82}  \setkomafont{chapter}{\normalfont\color{chaptercolor}\Huge} \setkomafont{chapterprefix}{\Large} \renewcommand*{\raggedchapter}{\raggedleft} \renewcommand*{\chapterformat}{%     \MakeUppercase{\chapappifchapterprefix{}}%     \rlap{\enskip\resizebox{!}{2.2cm}{\thechapter} \rule{1.5mm}{4cm} }% }  \RedeclareSectionCommand[beforeskip=8mm,afterskip=10mm]{chapter} \renewcommand*\chapterheadmidvskip{\par\nobreak\vspace{10pt}}   With the above code i got this:     How can i make the Text that it floats to left and define its margin from the chapter number? and how can i change the position of the line to the left side of the number?  Thanks
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I've found a thesis with really beautiful chapter headings that I would like to use. What package am I going to need and how would I go about creating a heading that looks like the one below. Also, if you have or know of any nice headings do please share!
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When I compile my thesis.tex file which is compiled fine including the \addchap, I noticed that I have used \usepackage{unnumberedtotoc}. When I want to use my thesis.tex file on another computer it says tex capacity exceeded, sorry [input stack size=5000]. When I uncomment \usepackage{unnumberedtotoc}, it says ! undefined control sequence  \addchap.  Here I have pasted all the beginning of the packages that I have used in my thesis but I still get some problems in compilation, I don't know why, but I think if I can compile this code, then I can solve the problem  :   \immediate\write18{makeindex \jobname.nlo -s nomencl.ist -o \jobname.nls} \documentclass[12pt]{report} \DeclareMathSizes{12}{30}{16}{12} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{lineno} \usepackage{amsmath}  \usepackage{array, nccmath}  \usepackage[nottoc]{tocbibind} \newcolumntype{L}{&gt;{$}l&lt;{$}} \newcolumntype{m}{&gt;{\displaystyle}l} \usepackage{framed} \usepackage{cclicenses} \usepackage{makecell} \usepackage[french]{babel} \usepackage{setspace} \usepackage{mathptmx}  \usepackage{multirow}  \usepackage{gensymb}  \usepackage{empheq}   \usepackage{mathtools}   \usepackage{array}   \renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.9}   \newcolumntype{P}{&gt;{\centering\arraybackslash$}p{1.6em}&lt;{$}}   \newcolumntype{C}{&gt;{\centering\arraybackslash$}c&lt;{$}}   \usepackage{makecell}   \usepackage{booktabs}   \usepackage{subcaption}   \usepackage[intoc]{nomencl}   \makenomenclature   \setcounter{secnumdepth}{4}   \setcounter{tocdepth}{4}   \usepackage[justification=centering]{caption}    \usepackage{etoolbox}     \usepackage{unnumberedtotoc} %https://github.com/johannesbottcher/unnumberedtotoc/     \usepackage[automark,     plainheadsepline,     headsepline,     plainfootsepline,      footsepline,     markcase=ignoreupper]{scrlayer-scrpage}    \clearpairofpagestyles    \ihead*{\leftmark}    \cfoot*{\pagemark}    \setkomafont{pageheadfoot}{\scshape}    \usepackage{titlesec}    \graphicspath{{imagesthesis/}}    \def\frenchlistfigurename{Liste des figures}    \usepackage[a4paper,right=20mm,left=25mm,top=26mm, bottom=26mm]{geometry}    \makeatletter    \titleformat{\chapter}[display]    {\normalfont\huge\bfseries}{\chaptertitlename\ \thechapter}{20pt}{\Huge}    % this alters "before" spacing (the second length argument) to 0    \titlespacing*{\chapter}{0pt}{0pt}{20pt}    %\patchcmd{\@makechapterhead}{\vspace*{20\p@}}{}{}{}% Removes space above \chapter head    %\patchcmd{\@makeschapterhead}{\vspace*{20\p@}}{}{}{}% Removes space above \chapter* head    \makeatother    \title {itle of the thesis}    \titleformat{\paragraph}    {\normalfont\normalsize\bfseries}{\theparagraph}{1em}{}    \titlespacing*{\paragraph}     {0pt}{3.25ex plus 1ex minus .2ex}{1.5ex plus .2ex}     \usepackage[thin, , thinc]{esdiff}  \usepackage{subcaption}  \usepackage{caption}  \usepackage{framed}    \usepackage{nomencl}   \setlength{\nomitemsep}{-\parskip}\usepackage{booktabs,multirow}  \renewcommand{\cellset}{\renewcommand{\arraystretch}{0.5}}   \begin{document}  \renewcommand\arraystretch{0.8} %\noindent  \doublespacing  \maketitle  \tableofcontents %\listoffigures  \addchap{Publications et communications}   \section*{$\:$  a. Publications:}  \section*{$\:$  b. Communications:}  \addchap{Remerciements}  \end{document}
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I am using the following research statement template.  In my statement, I have to use the environment of the theorem, lemma, definition. It is giving me error when I am compiling my LaTeX file. I could not find the error. Any help appreciated.   %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % "ModernCV" CV and Cover Letter % LaTeX Template % Version 1.1 (9/12/12) % % This template has been downloaded from: % http://www.LaTeXTemplates.com % % Original author: % Xavier Danaux (xdanaux@gmail.com) % % License: % CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/) % % Important note: % This template requires the moderncv.cls and .sty files to be in the same % directory as this .tex file. These files provide the resume style and themes % used for structuring the document. % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%  %---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- %   PACKAGES AND OTHER DOCUMENT CONFIGURATIONS %----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  \documentclass[11pt,a4paper,sans]{moderncv} % Font sizes: 10, 11, or 12; paper sizes: a4paper, letterpaper, a5paper, legalpaper, executivepaper or landscape; font families: sans or roman  \moderncvstyle{casual} % CV theme - options include: 'casual' (default), 'classic', 'oldstyle' and 'banking' \moderncvcolor{blue} % CV color - options include: 'blue' (default), 'orange', 'green', 'red', 'purple', 'grey' and 'black'  \usepackage{lipsum} % Used for inserting dummy 'Lorem ipsum' text into the template  \usepackage[scale=0.75]{geometry} % Reduce document margins %\setlength{\hintscolumnwidth}{3cm} % Uncomment to change the width of the dates column %\setlength{\makecvtitlenamewidth}{10cm} % For the 'classic' style, uncomment to adjust the width of the space allocated to your name  \usepackage{amsfonts, amsthm} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{booktabs} \usepackage{color} \usepackage{colortbl} \usepackage{enumitem} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage[english]{babel} %\usepackage[hang,flushmargin]{footmisc} %\usepackage[margin=25mm]{geometry} %\usepackage{mathtools}  \newtheorem{theorem}{Theorem}[section] \newtheorem{corollary}{Corollary}[theorem] \newtheorem{lemma}[theorem]{Lemma}   %\newtheorem{theorem}{Theorem} %\newtheorem{specialthm}{specialthm} %\renewcommand*{\thespecialthm}{\arabic{specialthm}}   %---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- %   NAME AND CONTACT INFORMATION SECTION %----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  \firstname{} % Your first name \familyname{} % Your last name  % All information in this block is optional, comment out any lines you don't need %\title{Research Statement} %\address{}{} %\mobile{()} %\phone{(000) 111 1112} %\fax{(000) 111 1113} %\email{} %\homepage{staff.org.edu/~jsmith}{staff.org.edu/$\sim$jsmith} % The first argument is the url for the clickable link, the second argument is the url displayed in the template - this allows special characters to be displayed such as the tilde in this example %\extrainfo{additional information} %\photo[70pt][0.4pt]{pictures/picture} % The first bracket is the picture height, the second is the thickness of the frame around the picture (0pt for no frame) %\quote{"A witty and playful quotation" - John Smith}  %----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  \begin{document} \makecvtitle % Print the CV title %---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- %   EDUCATION SECTION %----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  \section{Previous Research Experience} \begin{theorem} Hello new \end{theorem}  \begin{lemma} \end{lemma}  {\hskip 2em}     %---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \section{Research Goals}      \end{document}
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I'd like to use LaTeX to typeset a novel. Could you recommend me any template?  What I mean is a template (some .tex file) where I can include my chapterN.tex files (mainly plain text) and get a pretty good design with zero work :)
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I would like to convert a large LaTeX project (i.e. spanning multiple files) into plain text. The purpose is generation of statistics, so representing mathematics is not an issue. In fact, all mathematics is ideally ignored.  I have found  but could not get it to run. It seems unfinished, but is exactly what I am looking for otherwise.