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If you think this is unnecessary, just consider how much time you will lose if your computer crashes.
Due to Murphy's law, this is likely to happen just before your thesis is due\footnote{This has happened many times.}.
\item Get a LaTeX installation. We recommend TeXlive \url{https://www.tug.org/texlive/}
\item Get a LaTeX installation.
We recommend TeXlive \url{https://www.tug.org/texlive/}
For this template on windows, MiKTeX will also work, but will run very slowly the first time you render the template.
{\em As of September 2024, both MikTeX and TexLive did not want to install properly on the author's Windows 11 computer.}
You will need to enable the ``miktex'' option in the template to substitute packages.
It is very very important that you run the ``MikTeX Update Wizard'' before you start.
Otherwise you may get errors when you try to build the document.
Under linux this is the ``texlive'' package.
Under Mac/OSX this is the ``MacTeX'' distribution.
Under Apple iOS and linux this is the TexLive series of packages.
Linux distributions name the packages differently.
The author's recommendations for RedHat distributions such as Redhat Enterprise Linux, Centos, Fedora are in Listing~\ref{code:texlive-redhat}.
Debian-based distributions including Ubuntu and PopOS would use the packages in Listing~\ref{code:texlive-debian}.
\begin{lstlisting}[caption={RedHat Packages},label={code:texlive-redhat}]
sudo yum -y install
texlive-collection-fontsrecommended
texlive-biblatex-{apa,apa-doc,ieee,ieee-doc}
texlive-{lipsum,lastpage,luatex,pseudocode,xurl,listings,pgf,tikz,amsfonts,amsmath,amssymb,siunitx,subcaption,fixme,biblatex,makeglos,nomencl,ltxkeys,
framed,boondox,printlen}
\end{lstlisting}
\begin{lstlisting}[caption={Debian/Ubuntu Packages},label={code:texlive-debian}]
sudo apt-get -y install texlive texlive-luatex texlive-latex-extra texlive-science texlive-generic-extra texlive-lang-european texlive-lang-german latex-xcolor texlive-pictures pgf texlive-bibtex-extra texlive-publishers chktex evince fonts-lmodern lmodern biber
\end{lstlisting}
Alternatively, if nothing you are doing is particularly private or proprietary, you can do development online using Overleaf.
In this case, you won't need to setup the rest of the tools mentioned below except perhaps the Reference Manager mentioned in step~\ref{list:refmanager}.
\begin{description}
\item[RedHat]
\begin{lstlisting}
sudo yum -y install
texlive-collection-fontsrecommended
texlive-biblatex-{apa,apa-doc,ieee,ieee-doc}
texlive-{xargs,lipsum,lastpage,luatex,pseudocode,url,examplep,
listings,xspace,pgf,tikz,amsfonts,amsmath,amssymb,siunitx,svn-multi,
subfig,fixme,textpos,biblatex,makeglos,nomencl,xwatermark,ltxkeys,
framed,boondox,printlen}
\end{lstlisting}
\item[Debian/Ubuntu]
\end{description}
\begin{lstlisting}
sudo apt-get -y install texlive texlive-luatex texlive-latex-extra
texlive-science texlive-generic-extra texlive-lang-european
texlive-lang-german latex-xcolor texlive-pictures pgf
texlive-bibtex-extra texlive-publishers chktex evince
fonts-lmodern lmodern biber
\end{lstlisting}
\begin{enumerate}
\item Debian/Ubuntu:
\end{enumerate}
\item Get a LaTeX Integrated Development Environment (recommended, but not required)
\url{http://texstudio.sourceforge.net/} or
Some editors may include LaTeX support.
If you want to learn a very powerful (but old-fashioned) editor \url{http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/}
Install the auctex package by: M-x list-packages, click on AUCTeX
Many people like TeXStudio \url{http://texstudio.sourceforge.net/}.
Some other code editors and IDEs may include LaTeX support.
If you want to learn a very powerful (but old-fashioned) editor, consider GNU Emacs: \url{http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/}.
Of note, the author used Emacs to write this template.
\item Get a references manager (recommended, but not required)\label{list:refmanager}
\url{http://jabref.sourceforge.net/} (You may have to install a Java JRE first.)
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\url{http://www.activestate.com/activeperl}
\item Get supporting programs for some tools.
For glossaries under windows, you will need to install Perl
For glossaries under Windows, you will need to install Perl
\url{http://strawberryperl.com/}
(it is already installed on the other platforms.)
\item Try building the \path{main.tex} file. If you get errors, there
\item Try building the \path{main.tex} file with lualatex. If you get errors, there
is something wrong with your LaTeX installation. Fix those first.
\item Rename the \path{main.tex} file with your information (optional).
DEGREE-NAME-YEAR is the recommended scheme
e.g. \path{msc-foley-2025.tex}.
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\item Start editing all of the \path{.tex} files with your content.
\item Compile the document by running lualatex on the Main file, run the bibliography tool, then view the result.
\item Compile the document by running lualatex on the Main file, run \path{biber}, then view the result.
\item When you print, make sure that the scale is 100\%.
If you allow it to resize when printing, the margins won't be right.
If the margins aren't right, then the RU logo will not look right on the
cover.
\end{enumerate}
\subsection{Important Details}
\begin{itemize}
\item Make absolutely sure that your \path{references.bib} is in UTF-8. If it is another format (CP1251,etc) you may get weird problems with any accented characters.
\item Make absolutely sure that your \path{references.bib} is in UTF-8. If it is another format (CP1251, EBDIC) you may get weird problems with any accented characters.
{\em Students have run into encoding issues in the past and it has taken a surprisingly long time to debug.}
\item Make sure the rest of the files, particularly the \path{.tex} file are in UTF8 or are at least in the same encoding.
If the files are in different encoding, you will discover errors with accented characters when you try to include them together.
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Icelandic characters may not work properly in your \path{references.bib} file if you use BibTeX.
TexMaker and TeXStudio require a configuration change to do this.
\item Be consistent about UPPER and lower case in naming files.
Preferably just use the 26 English letters, 10 numbers, and ``-'' to avoid filename issues.
Preferably just use the 26 English letters, 10 numbers, dash ``-'', and underscore ``\_'' to avoid filename issues.
Windows doesn't care (but some programs in Windows do).
OSX sometimes cares.
Linux always cares.