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Joseph Timothy Foley
2026-01-28 14:37:23 +00:00
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@@ -106,27 +106,17 @@ If you are writing a PhD dissertation, you will want to edit \path{main-disserta
\section{Coverpage}\label{sec:coverpage}
Reykjavik University's communications department insists on a common outer appearance of official printed documentation, which includes Doctoral Dissertations.
The library has been delegated the role of deciding what the non-printed student theses and project reports should look like.
The library has been delegated the role of deciding what the student theses and project reports should look like.
They have stated that since most never are printed, the focus should be on suitability for displaying on a screen and e-reader.
The current template in \path{main.tex} implements the cover page and copyright page that go on the inside.
Previously, doctoral students needed contact RU Communications for the outside cover that is printed on heavier paper and bound around the book.
This is now included in the template as of 2026-01-27.
%Doctoral students need to contact the RU Communications department for slightly different custom cover PDF before the document is to be published\footnote{The author highly suggests doing this 2 weeks before it is due.}.
%This class supports the RU Communication's desire for the common appearance through the \texttt{rucover} package.
%Place \texttt{cover.pdf} into the same directory that you have your thesis' main file.
%\LaTeX{} includes the file automatically if you add \verb|\usepackage{rucover}| to your preamble.
%You can control the filename with \lstinline|\usepackage[filename=name.pdf]{rucover}|.
This is now included in the template \path{main-dissertation.tex} as of 2026-01-27.
\section{Files and Directories/Folders}
\begin{itemize}
%\item \path{cls/}: contains the \path{rureport.cls} template used to format these instructions.
\item \path{graphics/:} contains the graphics to generate this document.
%\item \path{covers/:} contains the official covers (from RU Communications) to be put on the outside of the finished book.
\item \path{IEEEtran/:} contains the IEEE citation style files
%\item \path{deadlines.xlsx}: A deadline calculator that uses the semester's
%graduation date
\end{itemize}
\section{Limited Access}
@@ -154,10 +144,10 @@ The general submission sequence is:
\begin{enumerate}
\item Defense complete, minor corrections complete after X days of work.
\item Save the completed thesis text as \path{main.pdf}
%\item Get signature pages signed by supervisor(s) and examiner.
\item PhD: Get signature pages signed by supervisor(s) and examiner on physical copies.
%\item Sign the library release page.
%\item Scan the pages in, put them into the document in the appropriate places.
\item Open the official cover files in \path{cover}, fill in the appropriate fields, and save as a \path{cover.pdf}
%\item Open the official cover files in \path{cover}, fill in the appropriate fields, and save as a \path{cover.pdf}
% \item Use a PDF binding tool such as PDFsam \url{https://pdfsam.org} to putthe cover before the first page and save as \path{thesis.pdf}
\item Upload the finished \path{main.pdf} to Skemman.
\item An autogenerated email is sent from Skemman.
@@ -173,20 +163,21 @@ Some information is at the top of \path{main.tex} file, this file is for a gener
\subsection{Preparation}
\begin{enumerate}
\item Find a safe place to work on your thesis document.
The author recommends Git on Overleaf, but anywhere data is backed up is a appropriate.
If you are working with sensitive information, you should avoid bitbucket, google drive, dropbox, and any other free cloud service.
The author recommends Overleaf with the git integration\footnote{So you have a copy locally on your computer with all of its history}, but anywhere data is backed up is a appropriate.
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.}.
Due to Murphy's law, this is likely to happen just before your thesis is due\footnote{This has happened many times.}.
If you are working with sensitive information, you should avoid bitbucket, google drive, dropbox, and any other free cloud service.
\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.
We recommend TeXlive \url{https://www.tug.org/texlive/} in general.
You will need to figure out which packages you need or just install the whole distribution which is around 6~GB.
If you wish to install packages as needed, you can use MiKTeX \url{https://miktex.org} by Christian Schenk which exists for Windows, Linux, and Mac.
MiKTeX will run very slowly the first time you render the template.
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.
A Mac-focused installer can be found at MacTeX \url{https://tug.org/mactex}
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}.