LaTeX3 Template for HKUST Thesis

Introduction

This project provides a LaTeX3 template for HKUST Thesis to fulfill the requirements for Ph.D. and MPhil. graduation.

Getting started

For general users

1. Download the zip file hkust-thesis-v*.zip from the latest release.
2. Read the PDF documentation – hkustthesis.pdf and follow the sample thesis file – mythesis.tex in the release.
3. We recommend Visual Studio Code with LaTeX Workshop extention as the editor. Then, run the build_mythesis command we pre-defined to compile the thesis file.

For command line users

After downloading the release file, you can compile from command line by:

• Makefile.

    make all
    make clean
  

• latexmk:

    latexmk
    latexmk -c
  

• XeLaTeX:

    xelatex mythesis.tex
    biber mythesis
    xelatex mythesis.tex
    xelatex mythesis.tex
  

For developers

1. Fork the Github repo and develop on your branch.
2. Read through the documentation hkustthesis.pdf including the implementation section.
3. File issues and PRs for your contribution.

There’s no .cls file in the repository and you need to compile yourself.

1. For VS Code and LaTeX Workshop, run the commands as extract_dtx before running build_mythesis. Then you get the documentation and sample theis.
2. For command line users:

    xetex hkustthesis.dtx