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1 Introduktion 1
2 Resultat 3
2.1 Ditten................................... 3
2.2 Framtiden ................................ 3
2.A Ettparlångabevis............................ 6
3 Avslutande kommentarer 7
A Trista saker 11
A.1 Bäddasängen .............................. 11
A.2 Diska ................................... 11
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B.1 Basicsetup................................ 13
B.2 Page layout and related options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
B.3 Front-matter environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
B.4 Abbreviations .............................. 17
B.5 Definitions................................ 17
B.6 Theoremtitles .............................. 20
B.7 To share or not to share counters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
B.8 Completely customized theorem-like environments . . . . . . . . 20
B.9 The example environment....................... 21
B.10Captions ................................. 22
B.11Hyperlinks................................ 22
B.11.1Basicsetup............................ 22
B.11.2 Hyperlinks and electronic publishing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
B.11.3 Page number formatting in the index . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
B.11.4 Friendlier hyperlinks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
B.12 Backreferences from the bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
B.13 Using the bibentry package ....................... 26
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B.14Fonts ................................... 26
B.15 Hanging punctuation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
B.16Paragraphbreaks ............................ 27
B.17Pagebreaks................................ 28
B.18Inputencoding.............................. 30
B.19 rtthesis and natbib ............................. 30
B.20 The lists of previous theses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
B.21Compilationtheses ........................... 32
B.21.1 Including publications in your thesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
B.21.2 Compilation theses and bibliographies . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
B.22Master’stheses.............................. 34
B.22.1 Master’s thesis setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
B.22.2Specialpages........................... 36
B.22.3 Choice of language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
B.23 Compiling the document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
B.24 Generating a thesis cover and the “spikblad” . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
B.25 Required logotypes (not included with rtthesis)............ 38
B.26 Compatibility with standard packages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
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This document is not only an example that you can use to get started with the
rtthesis class, it also contains written instructions for how to use the class, and
some general tips on how to use L
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so in this chapter, we also get the opportunity to look at some theorem-like envi-
ronments, which you can alter the look of by changing the options given to the
rtthesis class.
B.1 Basic setup
You must decide on an input encoding from start, and select the corresponding
class option from tabell B.12 on sida 30. You must also tell rtthesis whether you
intend to use part sectioning or not, see tabell B.1. There are many more class op-
tions, but they will be mentioned below where there is room for a more detailed
discussion for the corresponding features.
Information about the thesis, which is needed to produce the thesis itself as
well as the thesis cover and the “spikblad”, is passed to rtthesis using the command
\setupThesis. The command is called in the following way, where the most
common key-value pairs are listed in tabell B.2 (the remaining key-value pairs
concern master’s theses, see avsnitt B.22)):
\setupThesis{
key1=value1,
key2=value2,
...
}
If a PhD thesis has an interesting illustration on the cover, it is customary to
provide a caption for the illustration. The caption will be printed on the back
of the title page, and is set up by redefining the command \rtcoverinfo. For
instance, it may look like this:
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Tabell B.1: Class options that inform rtthesis whether part sectioning will be
used or not.
Class option Meaning
parts Prepare for \part as the topmost sectio-
ning command.
noparts Prepare for \chapter as the topmost
sectioning command.
Tabell B.2: Key-value pairs recognized by \setupThesis. Note that values
that include white space are surrounded by braces.
Key =Example value Comment
author = {My Name}
title = {Thesis title}
subtitle = {Good stuff} Optional.
city = Norrköping Default: Linköping
year = 2010
isbn = isbn-isbn-isbn-isbn
type = phd Must be either phd,lic, or msc.
thesisNo = 9999 Number in series (the series is determi-
ned by the choice of thesis type).
localID = 11 Only used for licentiate’s theses. It is
the last part of the local identifier
LIU-TEK-LIC-2010:11 in this case.
username = isyusername Used to generate the author’s email add-
ress.
dedication = {To my parents!}
\renewcommand{\rtcoverinfo}{\textbf{Cover illustration:} Block
diagram showing the structure of the control scheme proposed in
\chapterref{cha:cool-control}}
B.2 Page layout and related options
Theses are restricted to the S5 paper size. How the S5 page is organized is up to
you, but rtthesis only allows you to choose from two predefined layouts, and only
one of them is recommended. To get your own layout you should make a copy of
rtthesis.cls and modify the code for one of the existing class options for layout.
The class options for page layout are given in tabell B.3.
At the time of writing, the printers used by LiU-Tryck print on A4 paper (phy-
sical size), which is then cropped to S5 (logical size). Similarly, when you print
draft versions of your thesis on your office printer, it is very likely that the used
physical paper size will be A4. Hence, it makes sense to let rtthesis control how the
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Tabell B.3: Class options related to page layout. The most important one to
remember is crop (since S5 and pdf are default).
Class option Meaning
S5 Recommended layout. Margin paragrap-
hs are tiny (see avsnitt 2.1 for examples),
and should only be used for comments
that will be removed in the final version
of the thesis. Default.
S5MP Layout to use if you are serious about
margin paragraphs. Not recommended,
since the S5 format is too narrow to re-
ally fit margin paragraphs of reasonable
width.
nailing Layout for the “spikblad”. Not for the-
ses!
pdf Produce pages in the S5 format. Default.
onA4 Logical S5 page on a pdf page of size A4.
info Write information about each page abo-
ve the logical S5 page.
crop Same as onA4 with info and crop
marks.
noInfo Turn o↵the e↵ect of info.
draft Same as onA4, but pictures are blank
and overfull hboxes stand out.
S5 logical page is placed on the A4 physical paper. In this case, rtthesis will produ-
ce a pdf with pages in the A4 format, with content restricted to the S5 format. On
the other hand, when you produce a pdf that is meant to be read on a computer
screen, the page size should be exactly S5. When targeting the A4 physical format,
it is possible to get crop marks for the S5 box, and to put some information about
each page outside the S5 box. The related class options are given in tabell B.3.
To ensure that you really get the page layout you think when you send your
thesis file to the printer’s, the best option should be to use the crop option. Ho-
wever, they will tell you di↵erently, since they think it’s their job to position the
logical page on A4 and add crop marks. Unfortunately, there is a lot of manual
work in the process, so there is a (substantial?!) risk that the content of your pages
will be shifted with respect to the S5 box of your layout.. .
Although only weakly related to page layout, this section ends with a tip for
how to change the size of the chapter numbers (some users find them much too
big). The font is controlled using the sectsty package, and it follows that it can be
redefined by, for instance,
\chapternumberfont{\fontsize{60mm}{63mm}\selectfont}
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Tabell B.4: Legal option values to the notation environment. The options
control the look of the notationtabular environments used inside the
notation environment. The initial definition of notationtabular is the
same as that obtained by passing the option new.
Option Meaning
emty Do not redefine notationtabular.
Default.
old Make notationtabular produce a
plain L
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lines under the table headings, and a ver-
tical line separating the two columns.
new Make notationtabular produce a ta-
ble according to the guidelines in Mori
[2007] using the ctable package.
B.3 Front-matter environments
There are environments defined for typical sections in the front-matter1. The
most important purpose of providing these environments is that they take ca-
re of the table of contents and the pdf bookmarks for you. The environments are
abstract,preface,acknowledgments, and notation.
The environment abstract accepts the language used inside the environ-
ment as an optional argument (which defaults to english). If the language is set
to swedish, the title of the abstract will be Populärvetenskaplig sammanfattning,
in accordance with the Linköping University requirements on theses written in
English.
Inside the notation environment, you can put anything you like, and maybe
the notationtabular environment provided by rtthesis suits your needs. In
order to define this environment, rtthesis loads the two packages array and ctable,
and also defines the command \otoprule to mean the same as \toprule. See
tabell B.4 regarding how to change the look of notationtabular.
There is a class option called noextras, which was intended to inhibit the ef-
fect of the \maketitle command, and redefine the front-matter environments
to not produce any output. However, the option is not working well at the mo-
ment. On the other hand, as the time it takes to compile a thesis on a modern
computer is very short, it is rather unclear why someone would like to use this
feature anyway.
1The front-matter is everything that goes in the beginning of the thesis, before the page numbe-
red 1.
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B.4 Abbreviations
Automatic control is a L
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produce is expected to look good. We begin with a basic result.
Sats B.1. Abbreviations, such as arma, look best in small caps.
Bevis: Just compare with “ARMA”.
However, it is important that the small caps match the sorrounding text, com-
pare the statement in the theorem above with the following variation of it, in
italics instead of slanted text:
Abbreviations, such as arma2or arma, will stick out in a terrible way if
you don’t watch out!
This is why the rtthesis class uses slanted text rather than italics in theorems rather
when slanted small caps are available.
Unfortunately, rtthesis does currently not provide a way to make small caps
look good in italics, which leads to the following corollary to teorem B.1.
Korrolarium B.2. One has to make a choice between
• Beautiful abbreviations using small caps (instead of ordinary upper case).
• Pretty text typeset in italics (instead of slanted text).
B.5 Definitions
Let us discuss another theorem-like environment while we have some examples
of similar environments to compare with in the previous section. That is, let us di-
scuss the definition environment (and the similar environments assumption
and remark). All the theorem-like environments are defined in a separate pac-
kage, rtthesis-theorems, so that they can be used with other document classes as
well. The definition below is an example of a definition with a title.
Definition B.3 (Definition). Adefinition is a precise explanation of the mea-
ning of a word or concept. It may be tempting to include examples in a definition,
but a good definition should not depend on examples as part of the definition.
However, examples are often useful to clarify a definition, and should appear
near the definition.
A short definition may require just a single paragraph, while a more complex
definition may require a few paragraphs. Some definitions will also make use of
displayed math.
One problem one has to consider if definitions are not restricted to just one
paragraph, is how to show the reader where the definition ends. In theorems, it
is common to use italics or slanted text (for brevity, we will not mention italics
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from here on) to show where the theorem statement ends, but for definitions it
may be desirable to use the slanted text to emphasize the word or concept being
defined. (It is arguably more clear to highlight the new word or concept using
slanted text with upright surrounding text, than vice versa.) To use an upright
font for the definitions may also be a way of avoiding to heavy use of slanted text.
Various options related to the appearance of theorem-like things (in L
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definition is a kind of theorem) are described in tabell B.5. Tabell B.8 (used also
to illustrate tables) contains some suggestions regarding combinations of options
for the definition environment and options for paragraph breaks.
Sometimes, a definition may be given without a title. The next definition is
an example of this, even though it is questionable whether it was a good idea to
omit the title in this particular case.
Definition B.4. An environment in L
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command \begin{...} and exited with the command \end{...}, where “. . . ”
should be the name of the environment.
In tabell B.5, there are three options related particularly to how definition,
assumption, and remark are typeset.
• With definition=naked (default) the definitions are typeset in upright
font, and there is nothing on the page that marks the end of the definition.
• With definition=theorem the definitions are typeset in the same style
as theorems. Since theorems are supposed to be typeset in slanted text, this
will make it clear where the definition ends.
• With definition=marks the beginning and end of definitions will be
indicated with small marks. Compare how the end of a proof is marked
with a square box! The current implementation has some problems with
placing the marks if the definition ends with a displayed equation, but this
can be compensated for by manual insertion of a \vspace command.
You may judge from the following example whether manual insertion of a
\vspace command is necessary to make the definition ending with a displayed
equation look alright.
Definition B.5. The factorial (denoted by the postfix operator !), defined for na-
tural numbers, is given by
n!=
8
>
>
<
>
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1,if n=0
n·(n1) · ... ·1,otherwise
This paragraph only serves to highlight the vertical white space below the de-
finition ending with a displayed equation. Note that one way to avoid problems
with this kind of definitions is to rewrite them so that they don’t end with dis-
played equations.
All definitions in this section have been entered as isolated paragraphs; that
is, there is an empty line in the source code of the document before and after
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Tabell B.5: Class options related appearance of theorem-like environ-
ments. The theorem-like environments defined by rtthesis are theorem,
proposition,lemma,corollary,definition,assumption, and
remark. The definition-like environments are a subset of the theorem-like
environments, consisting of the environments definition,assumption,
and remark. See also tabell B.10 regarding the fonts used in theorems.
Class option Meaning
break Put line breaks after the titles of the
environments theorem,proposition,
lemma, and corollary.
nobreak Never put line breaks after titles of
theorem-like environments. Default.
definition=naked Definition-like environments look like
the surrounding text, and are only iso-
lated by some vertical white space. De-
fault.
definition=theorem Definition-like environments use same
font as the theorem environment, and
are isolated by some vertical white spa-
ce.
definition=marks Definition-like environments look like
the surrounding text, and are isolated by
small marks. Strongly recommended if
parskip is used.
nosharecounter Use separate numbering sequences for
each theorem-like environment and the
example environment.
sharecounter Use one numbering sequence for
theorem-like environments, and the
example environment.
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each definition environment. Although not recommended, rtthesis supports
definitions that are connected with the preceding paragraph, in which case the
usual vertical space (if any) between paragraphs will not be inserted. Be careful so
that you don’t omit the paragraph breaks by mistakes, since it makes a di↵erence
that may be hard for proofreaders to spot! As an example of a definition written
in the same paragraph as the preceding text,
Definition B.6. Aparagraph (according to Oxford American Dictionaries) is a
distinct section of a piece of writing, usually dealing with a single theme and
indicated by a new line, indentation, or numbering.
There is no paragraph break in the source code between the definition above
and this text, but currently this cannot be seen in the typeset document. If you
know how to solve this, let the rtthesis maintainer know! If you want to learn
about the T
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B.6 Theorem titles
The class lets you control the white space that separates a theorem title from the
theorem statement. The options appear in tabell B.5. With the class option break
(default), you will get a line break. With nobreak, you will just get horizontal
space. Not all types of theorem-like environments will be a↵ected by the break
option, so to get things exactly they way you want, you may have to make your
own modified copy of the rtthesis class. Try to recompile the document with the
two di↵erent options and compare the result!
B.7 To share or not to share counters
Other things to think about regarding style include whether to use the same coun-
ter for all sorts of theorem-like things. Again, the options appear in tabell B.5.
Some like to make the number of important theorems to stand out by having a
separate counter (as in Khalil [2002]), while other prefer to use as few counters
as possible in order to make it easy to locate referenced items (as in Rugh [1996]).
The two alternatives are supported in rtthesis, via the options sharecounter and
nosharecounter.
B.8 Completely customized theorem-like
environments
If you don’t like the way rtthesis sets up theorem-like environments (listed in the
caption of tabell B.5) for you, you may pass the class option notheorems. Then
amsthm will not be loaded, none of the theorem-like environments will be defined,
and it is up to you to define your own environments. If you decide to do so, using
the amsthm package will be a good idea.
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Tabell B.6: The lengths used to control the appearance of the example en-
vironment. Note that the environment tries to compensate for the current
value of \parskip, so you may not always get exactly what you’d expect.
Also, the meaning of the distance between the upper stroke and the text is
somewhat arbitrary in order to allocate space for the example title.
Length Default Purpose
\exampleLineWidth 0.6 pt Thickness of the strokes.
\exampleTopBotInnerMargin 2 ex Vertical space between strokes
and contents of the example.
\exampleTopBotOuterMargin 1 em
plus
1 ex
minus
1 ex
Vertical space surrounding the
example.
B.9 The example environment
The example environment defined by the rtthesis class is not a floating environ-
ment, but is simply used to highlight that the text inside the environment is just
an example of something more general that you have explained before. Just as
with the theorem-like environments, the environment is defined in a separate
package, rtthesis-example, so that it can be used with other document classes as
well.
Exampel B.7
As an example of the example environment, we include a little example here.
You can use this example to see how the options described in avsnitt B.7 a↵ects
the numbering of the environment.
Depending on where this example ends up in the typeset document, you may
also have the chance to see the ugly stretched vertical space that sometimes appe-
ars at the top and bottom of the environment.
There are three lengths you may play with the fine tune the appearance of
examples, explained in tabell B.6. Clearly, it would be possible to introduce ad-
ditional parameters, but currently the corresponding aspects of the environment
are hard-coded into rtthesis.
As is mentioned in the example above, there is sometimes problem with ver-
tical space at the top and bottom of the example environment. During the page
breaking process (see avsnitt B.17) you could consider to add something like
\vspace{-1\baselineskip}
to reduce such artifacts. Even better, if you know how to correct this in the
definition of the environment, let the rtthesis maintainer know! The paper Ry’ko
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and Jackowski [1993] is recommended for anyone interested in the lesser known
details of T
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B.10 Captions
The rtthesis class loads the captions package to obtain good-looking captions. Cap-
tions are set up assuming that table captions will be placed above the table they
belong to. Many authors find this confusing since figure captions are always pla-
ced below the figure they belong to. If you want to put table captions below the
table you need to adjust the spacing around the caption by putting the following
line in your personal style file:
\captionsetup[table]{position=bottom}
Note that the command above only changes the spacing around the caption.
You still have to put the code for each caption relative to the tabular itself consi-
stently with the captions setup. Two tables are included in this document for il-
lustration. Tabell B.8 indicates the many combinations of options that the definition
environment has been designed to work with. The next one, tabell B.7 is just a
stupid table telling where the di↵erent chapters in this document begin. For com-
parison, a typical automatic control block diagram has been included in figur B.1.
Some nice guidelines for table creation in L
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just two clicks away!).
B.11 Hyperlinks
For readers our the electronically published version of your thesis, as well as your-
self while your are working on it, it is very convenient to have working hyperlinks
in the document.
B.11.1 Basic setup
Basically, hyperlinks are obtained by using the hypreref package. However, this
package has quite a lot of compatibility issues with other packages, and know-
ledge about how to deal with these issues is coded into the rtthesis class. That is,
all you should have to do to get hyperlinks in your document is to specify the
hyperref option to rtthesis. The class options related to the linking infrastructu-
re of the document are listed in tabell B.9.
At the time of writing rtthesis does not call \hypersetup with information
about document title, keywords, and other information provided to \setupThesis
(see tabell B.2). If someone wants this, it shouldn’t be hard to do.
B.11.2 Hyperlinks and electronic publishing
To make your dear hyperlinks survive all the way to the electronic publishing
system, you may have to replace the file that is sent to e-press by LiU-tryck. The
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Tabell B.7: Di↵erent combinations of class options that a↵ects the
definition environment. The code for this caption appears at the begin-
ning of the table environment. It would have had the desired distance to
the tabular if the default caption setup of rtthesis was used, but this docu-
ment has been set up for table captions below the corresponding tabular.
Chapter Title Page
1 Introduktion 1
2 Resultat 3
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Tabell B.8: Di↵erent combinations of class options that a↵ects the
definition environment. The code for this caption appears at the end of
the table environment. It will be too close to the tabular using the default
settings of rtthesis (but note that this document has been setup di↵erently,
see avsnitt B.10).
definition=
naked theorem marks
noparskip OK Avoid OK
parskip Bad Avoid OK
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Figur B.1: A simple illustration in a floating figure environment. Note that
figure captions are always placed under the corresponding figure, and hence
that the caption code should always appear at the end of the figure envi-
ronment.
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Tabell B.9: Class options related to (hyper) linking infrastructure.
Class option Meaning
hyperref Turn on hyperlinks using the hyperref pac-
kage. Default.
nohyperref Turn o↵hyperlinks, and compensate for
commands no longer provided by the
hyperref package.
backref Turn on bibliography back references.
Default.
nobackref Turn o↵bibliography back references.
(Currently required if you plan to use
the features of bibunits.)
problem is that LiU-tryck creates a compressed version of the file that is used
in the printer, and the compression will remove nice features such as page num-
bers, hyperlinks, and bookmarks. Fortunately, the guys at e-press seem to be un-
derstanding and will accept to publish a file that they receive directly from you.
B.11.3 Page number formatting in the index
If you use an index in your thesis, you will often want to change the formatting
of certain page numbers in the index. Without hyperref, this could look like
hyperlinks\index{hyperlinks|textit}
to get the page number for this occurrence of hyperlinks to be typeset in ita-
lics. The problem with this is that this page number will not be a hyperlink, while
other page numbers will be hyperlinks to the correct page. To get both italics and
a hyperlink you need to define a special index formatting commands like the
following.
\newcommand{\hyperpageit}[1]{\textit{\hyperpage{#1}}}
\newcommand{\hyperpagebf}[1]{\textbf{\hyperpage{#1}}}
\newcommand{\hyperpagefootnote}[1]{\hyperpage{#1}n}
Now, you can write
hyperlinks\index{hyperlinks|hyperpageit}
to get both italics and a hyperlink. The rtthesis class will provide a trivial defi-
nition of \chapter in case hyperref is not loaded, so you may safely start to use
the above definitions even if you are not sure whether you will use hyperlinks in
the end.
B.11.4 Friendlier hyperlinks
The default mechanism for references in L
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dified as expected by the hyperref package. For instance, the number in “chapter B”
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is linked to the beginning of the current chapter (if you click it, be sure to just
the jump back function of your pdf viewer to get back to here!). However, all of
“this” is also a link to the same place. That is, it is possible to other things than the
number itself as links. We could also make a reference that will never be linked,
like in “chapter B”.
So, what’s so friendly about this? What I’m aiming at is that you can say “chap-
ter B”. The code for this link is
\hyperref[cha:rtthesis]{chapter~\ref*{cha:rtthesis}}
Of course, it is very annoying to repeat the key twice; first to point the hy-
perlink to the correct place, second to show the number of the chapter. With
the \autoref command from the hyperref bundle, we get “Appendix B”. This is
almost perfect. The problem is that one cannot get an uppercase initial at the
beginning of a sentence without redefining “chapter” to “Chapter“,
\renewcommand{\Chaptername}{Chapter}
but then we will not get the nice lower case initial in the middle of a sentence.
Many authors don’t bother about this and use uppercase initials irrespectively of
where in a sentence the reference appears.
The only solution I (Henrik Tidefelt) knows of, is to define special commands
for each type of reference. A basic solution might look as follows.
\newcommand{\chapterref}[1]{\hyperref[#1]{chapter~\ref*{#1}}}
\newcommand{\Chapterref}[1]{\hyperref[#1]{Chapter~\ref*{#1}}}
You should then use \chapterref in the middle of a sentence, and \Chapterref
at the beginning of a sentence. I you later decide that you want to have upper case
initials everywhere, you just have to change your definitions to
\newcommand{\chapterref}[1]{\hyperref[#1]{Chapter~\ref*{#1}}}
\newcommand{\Chapterref}[1]{\hyperref[#1]{Chapter~\ref*{#1}}}
A more complete solution will also provide commands for the plural forms
“chapters” and “Chapters”.
It is also nice to use a similar technique for page references. For instance, this
chapter starts on page 13, and such links can be created easily using a command
like
\newcommand{\pagepageref}[1]{\hyperref[#1]{page~\pageref*{#1}}}
Because of the many possible preferences for how to handle labels and re-
ferences within documents, rtthesis does not define any related commands. The
current section should give you some ideas of what can be achieved, and now it
is up to you to design your own solution or borrow a solution from someone else
(or simply stick with \autoref or the 1980’s way of doing things)!
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B.12 Backreferences from the bibliography
By default, rtthesis uses the backref package to put references from the bibliography
back into the text. The options for turning this feature on and o↵are listed in
tabell B.9.
By controlling this feature via the class, the choice whether to use it or not can
be made orthogonal to the choice of whether to use hyperref or not.
In addition to just loading backref,rtthesis will do a basic setup of the com-
mands used to typeset the list of page numbers for each reference. This behavior
can easily be redefined without modifying the rtthesis class file. See the backref
documentation for details on how to do this!
B.13 Using the bibentry package
The bibentry package makes it possible to use the information in the bibliography
to present your publications at any place in the document. In order to work inde-
pendently of whether you use back references from the bibliography or not, you
need to follow the pattern below each time you use the \bibentry command,
where KEY is the same key to you publication that you would with use with any
other citation command.
\begin{quotation}
\nocite{KEY}\noindent
\backrefparscanfalse\bibentry{KEY}.\backrefparscantrue
\end{quotation}
To use the quotation environment is just a suggestion — it will make the
reference stand out by using a some what shorter text line width. Note the period
that follows the \bibentry command — the command leaves it up to you how
to terminate the entry. The \nocite command ensures that the reference appe-
ars in the bibliography, which is necessary to produce the entry. The \noindent
commands simply prevents the first line in the quotation from being indented.
The commands \backrefparscanfalse and \backrefparscantrue are re-
lated to the backref package used to produce back references from the bibliograp-
hy, and should always surround the \bibentry command. In case you have tur-
ned back references o↵using the nobackref,rtthesis will provide substitutes for
these two commands.
B.14 Fonts
Though basically not a task for a L
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font packages. There are some class options that control this behavior, described
below, and if these options are not good enough for you, you may have to make
your own copy of the class and replace the font packages you don’t like. Options
for font selection are listed in tabell B.10.
One reason, however, for letting rtthesis handle the font selection is that this
makes it possible for the class to do some things more intelligently. At the mo-
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Tabell B.10: Class options related to fonts. When slanted small caps are ac-
tivated, theorem-like environments will use slanted text instead of italics.
The lower part of the table are examples of options that will be understood
by the kpfonts package, and are only meaningful in combination with the kp
option. (Note that options passed to rtthesis, but that are not understood by
rtthesis will be passed on automatically by L
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Class option Meaning
kp Use KpFonts (Kepler) and activate slan-
ted small caps. Default.
times Use Times and deactivate slanted small
caps.
lm Use Latin Modern and deactivate slan-
ted small caps.
largesmallcaps Let the small caps be slightly higher
than an x. See the KpFonts documenta-
tion!
intlimits Placement of integration limits. See the
KpFonts documentation!
widermath Put just a little more horizontal space
between entities in math mode. See the
KpFonts documentation!
ment, rtthesis will help you make use of some of the goodies of KpFonts, if you
choose to use that font.
B.15 Hanging punctuation
The rtthesis class automatically loads the pdfcprot package with its default settings.
It uses a pdfT
EX feature to make punctuation hang into the right margin. If you
don’t like it, make your own copy of the class and comment out the line that
loads the package. One reason not to use it would be if your document will be
(perhaps only occasionally) typeset using the old T
EX program, since this will
lead to noticeable di↵erences in the line breaks compared to when pdfT
EX is used.
No matter what you choose, make your choice before you start working with the
page breaks in your document!
B.16 Paragraph breaks
There are two common ways of visualizing paragraph breaks in a document, il-
lustrated by the two examples below. The look of paragraph breaks is controlled
using the class options listed in tabell B.11.
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Tabell B.11: Class options related to formatting of paragraph breaks.
Class option Meaning
noparskip US style, see exempel B.8. Default.
parskip European style, see exempel B.9.
Exampel B.8: Indented first line
This style is still the most common. It is particularly dominant in text written in
the US.
It is a matter of style whether to omit the indentation of the first line after a
sectioning command such as \chapter or \subsection. The omission is typi-
cally automated, but can also be enforced using the \noindent command.
One drawback of not having vertical space between paragraphs is that it will
be harder for pdfT
EX to find good places for page breaks, compared to the option
shown below. If you like compact documents, however, this is the option for you!
For testing purposes, this example ends with a paragraph break, so that T
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is in vmode at the end. You should always avoid this, but the class will try to
compensate for your mistakes. . .
Exampel B.9: Vertical white space
This style is still increasing in popularity. It is rather common in modern texts
written in Europe, and the style has received special attention from the Nether-
lands T
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can be used through their variants of the standard L
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Unfortunately, the ntg classes are not compatible with rtthesis, and the solution
provided by the parskip package is only part of the solution. Hence, rtthesis will
do more than just loading the parskip package for you if you specify the parskip
option.
A good reason to put code related paragraph breaks in the class file is that all the
small adjustments that di↵erent people come up with can be put in one placed
so that they are accessible to future users of the class.
B.17 Page breaks
There is a whole lot to say about how to obtain nice page breaks. You will find
some recommendations below, but do not use this document as your ultimate
reference on this topic! (This document itself contains some really nasty page
breaks — at least at the time of writing this — as a result of not paying any
attention at all to the problem. It would simply bee too time-consuming to keep
adjusting the page breaks each time the document is edited.)
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• Take no consideration of page breaks until page breaking is the only aspect
of your thesis that remains to be taken care of! Page breaking involves a
lot of manual intervention of the automatic mechanisms in pdfT
EX, and as
soon as you have started to intervene, any further changes to the text will
risk to ruin your page breaking fixes, and may even lead to worse results
than before since the automatic page breaking has been tampered with.
• First thing to try is to make changes to the text to help the automatic page
breaking mechanism. Try to make sentences longer or shorter depending on
the situation. Since this will not tamper with the automatic page breaking
mechanism, this option will incur the least loss of maintainability of your
document.
• Can the location of floats be changed to improve page breaks? Play around
with exactly where in your source files the code for the floating environ-
ments appears!
• You may also try to force early page breaks using the \Needspace*com-
mand. For instance, putting
\Needspace*{2\baselineskip}
before a paragraph will cause a page break if there is not enough vertical
space on the page to hold two lines of text. The good thing about this option
is that your intervention will cause no harm if the \Needspace*command
appears in the middle of a page. The bad thing about this option is that it
may cause remaining vertical space on the broken page to be stretched quite
badly. You should always check that the resulting page looks OK!
For more information, and related commands, see the documentation for
the needspace package!
• The last option is to play with the vertical size of individual pages. For
instance, putting
\enlargethispage{2\baselineskip}
before a paragraph you would like to fit into the current page will make
space for two extra lines of text. This avoids the bad stretching of vertical
space that the \Needspace*option may cause. However, if you would ma-
ke other changes that makes tampering with the page size unnecessary, it
will be very time-consuming to detect this and remove the no longer needed
\enlargethispage command.
Note that manual page breaking is a time-consuming task. Make sure to have
at least one full day allocated to page breaking before you submit your thesis for
print!
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Tabell B.12: Class options related to input encodings. Note that there is no
default; rtthesis requires one of these options to be passed explicitly.
Class option Meaning
latin1 Simply use inputenc with option latin1.
utf8 Use inputenc with option utf8, and defi-
ne some additional characters.
B.18 Input encoding
Two input encodings are supported, being latin-1 and utf-8. The choice of input
encoding should be made via the rtthesis class, so that the class can use the correct
encoding to define certain global strings. The input encoding options are listed
in tabell B.12.
Choose latin-1 if you depend on lots of files using this encoding, and do not
want to change the encoding of these files. Changing the encoding of a file is easy
both in Emacs and using the iconv command line utility. The latin-1 encoding is
the default in rtthesis, but the choice can be made explicit by passing the latin1
option to the class.
Choose utf-8 to be able to type many more characters directly in your L
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sources compared to latin-1. For instance, names of foreign authors often use
characters that cannot be entered directly using latin-1. In utf-8, most of these as
well as special punctuation characters such as double quotes and various dashes
can be entered directly in the source. Use the utf8 class option if your files are
encoded in utf-8.
The current implementation of utf-8 in the inputenc package only defines the
input encoding for characters that have corresponding glyphs in active fonts (see
the inputenc documentation for details). This means that some characters that T
EX
would build by combining several glyphs will not be defined by inputenc. If the
utf8 is given, rtthesis will define a list of additional characters by inclusion of the
package rtthesis-utf8-ext. If you need additional characters, you should make your
own package similar to rtthesis-utf8-ext, and then let the maintainer of rtthesis know,
so that the additional characters may be added to rtthesis-utf8-ext so that others can
use them in the future. Note that rtthesis-utf8-ext may be a useful package also
when you are not using the rtthesis class.
It is easy to set up Emacs so that it uses the utf-8 encoding for your T
EX files,
but it is out of the scope of the current document to give further explanations
here.
B.19 rtthesis and natbib
Interoperability with di↵erent bibliography packages is a tricky issue. It has been
a design decision to try to support at least natbib, at the cost of loosing compatibili-
ty with other packages such as jurabib. The core of the problem is package loading
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Tabell B.13: Class options related to the natbib package. Note that options
can be passed to natbib by passing them as global class options to rtthesis. See
the natbib documentation for more useful options.
Class option Meaning
authoryear Default option of natbib — no need to spe-
cify.
round Default option of natbib — no need to spe-
cify.
colon Default option of natbib — no need to spe-
cify.
square Example of option that natbib will pick
up (alternative to round).
comma Example of option that natbib will pick
up (alternative to colon).
numbers Conflicting natbib option — forbidden
in combination with usebibunits, see
forcenumbers below.
forcenumbers Enforce option numbers to be passed
to natbib (alternative to authoryear)—
it’s up to you to resolve the conflict.
order, requiring natbib to be loaded very early on in the class. To pass options to
natbib, pass them as global class options to rtthesis. Note that the default options
for natbib are quite reasonable, and see tabell B.13 for examples of other options
that natbib will pick up. If you know how to resolve the conflict with the natbib
option usebibunits, let the rtthesis maintainer know!
B.20 The lists of previous theses
The lists of previous licentiate’s and PhD theses can be found in liclist.tex and
phdlist.tex, respectively, and the appropriate one of the is automatically included
at the end of your thesis. Both files are found in the directory
$TEXMFGROUPLOCAL/tex/latex/rt/rtthesis .
Note that it is your responsibility to make sure that your thesis is added to
the appropriate list after you have sent it to print but before the next thesis of the
same kind is printed. If other people are writing theses at the same time as you,
you will have to coordinate your moves in order to make sure that the lists get
updated in the correct order. To get your thesis added to the appropriate list, you
simply send an email with information about your thesis to the rtthesis maintainer.
The information shall be in one of the following formats:
\licitem{J.~Doe}{Title}{Thesis No}{YYYY}
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or
\phditem{J.~Doe}{Title}{Theis No}{YYYY}{ISBN}
It is a good idea to make a copy of the file you need when it is time to print. If
you don’t make a copy, and then compile your thesis again at a later time, the list
will be wrong because it will include at least one thesis that wasn’t prior to yours
— namely your own!
B.21 Compilation theses
The rtthesis class aims to support the production of both monographs and compi-
lation theses. There is a compilation thesis example included with rtthesis. Please
have a look at that while reading the sections below!
B.21.1 Including publications in your thesis
It is assumed that included publications shall be compiled together with the rest
of your thesis, as opposed to being included as exactly the way the look whe-
re published. Under this assumption, it is reasonable to expect things such as a
suitable chapter numbering, and that the global table of contents includes the
sections withing publications. Note that it would be rather difficult to get things
such as the table of contents and other infrastructure right if publications were
to be included by direct pdf inclusion.
The papers environment provided by rtthesis will redefine commands and set
up some additional commands to support the inclusion of L
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publication. It is recommended that the environment is placed in a second part
of the thesis. Inside the environment, the \chapter command is redefined to
both start a new chapter and set up the title of the publication to be included in
the same chapter. Chapters will be labeled with letters instead of numbers, so it
is up to you to make a clear distinction between referencing an appendix chapter
and a publication chapter.
If the title of a publication is too long to fit in the page header, you may
follow the \chaptermark command by a \chaptermark command. Since the
\chaptermark command takes an optional argument to be used in the table of
contents, there are three di↵erent variations of the publication title that can be
defined.
The word for publications used by rtthesis is paper; it will appear both on the
chapter title page and in page headers. To change this to something else, you
simply have to redefine \chaptername to something else inside the papers
environment.
After setting up the publication title, the \author command should be used
to set up the list of authors. It works as usual, but sports two special rtthesis com-
mands that should be used when there are two author affiliations; put \authorleft
immediately after author names who’s affiliation should appear to the left below
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the list of authors, and put \authorright after the other authors. There is cur-
rently no support for more than two di↵erent affiliations.
In case there is only one affiliation, that affiliation is given by \paperaffiliation
(which should be set once and for all to your own affiliation), and you use the
\email command to specify the list of email addresses to the authors.
In case of two affiliations, you call the commands \affilblockleft ,\affilblockright,
\emailleft, and \emailright with the appropriate arguments. Note that one
of the two affiliation block arguments should simply be \paperaffiliation.
Additional information about the publication is given in after \item com-
mands inside the paperinfo environment. In addition to the items given, the
environment automatically starts with one item displaying the author informa-
tion (without any marks related to affiliation blocks). Three commands are defi-
ned by rtthesis to simplify consistent formatting of additional information.
•\papereditedbib-key — For ordinary publications. The extent to which
the publication has been edited should be state clearly. The bibliography
entry will be formatted using the technique described in avsnitt B.13.
•\paperprelverISY-report-number — For publications for which the-
re is only a preliminary version available. The preliminary version should
be published as a technical report at the department, and as no bibliography
keys are involved, the technical report will not be listed in any the biblio-
graphy.
•\papertechrepISY-report-number — For publications that are not
yet even preliminary versions of something. These too should be published
as technical reports at the department, and will not appear in the biblio-
graphy.
At this point the chapter title page will be finished. The next step is to ma-
ke a nice title and abstract for your publication on the following odd page. Use
\maketitle or \maketitletwoaffil depending on whether you set up one
or two affiliation blocks. Then put the publication abstract inside the abstract
environment.
After this point, you should just be able to include the source of your publica-
tion, with \section as the topmost sectioning command (since the publication
itself is a chapter of your thesis).
Finally, you must decide where your references should go. Should there be
one global bibliography for the whole thesis, or should there be one bibliography
for each publication. This is the topic of the next section.
B.21.2 Compilation theses and bibliographies
If you are fine with having just one global bibliography for the whole thesis, eve-
rything should work out of the box. Hence, this section will try to describe how
to do in order to get one bibliography for the background part of your thesis, and
one for each publication.
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The rtthesis class only supports this by relying on the bibunits package. Due to
package loading order issues, it should always be loaded by passing usebibunits
to rtthesis. Note that some of the bibunits commands appears to be incompatible
with bibliography back references, so you need to pass the nobackref to rtthesis
if you plan to use the bibunits features.
Anmärkning B.10. There is a very interesting package called biblatex which is currently in
beta version. Hopefully, it will let us drop the messy packages bibunits and backref. You are
invited to try this package, and if you find it to work satisfactory it should probably be
incorporated in rtthesis. Future maintainers of rtthesis are strongly encouraged to find out
what biblatex can do for us!
Use the command \defaultbibliography to specify the bibliography files
to use for all of the per-publication bibliographies, and use \defaultbibliographystyle
to select the bibliography style, see the bibunits documentation for details.
To get an individual bibliography for a publication, you should just have to
include that chapter in a bibunit environment, and call \putbib where you
want the bibliography to appear. Here, the \putbib command will be redefined
by rtthesis in order to make the bibliography appear in the table of contents.
A bibliography for references that appear in the background part of your the-
sis are produced as usual with the \bibliography command. (It might be good
to know that rtthesis will automatically issue the \nobibliography*command
in order to make the bibentry package work as you would expect.)
B.22 Master’s theses
The liuthesis class by Gustaf Hendeby was developed for the production of mas-
ter’s theses at Linköping University. The class knows how to create the special
pages required by several departments, and in the summer of 2011 this capabili-
ty was merged into rtthesis. This makes it convenient to produce a master’s thesis
at Linköping University using rtthesis instead of liuthesis, allowing a wider audi-
ence to benefit from the more active development of rtthesis.3
This section describes how to use rtthesis to produce a master’s thesis. To begin,
pass msc as the value for the key type in the call to \setupThesis, and select
your department using the key department. More details are given below, and
the reader is encouraged to study the bundled example in order to get a better
overall picture.
B.22.1 Master’s thesis setup
In addition to the pieces of information given to \setupThesis for licentiate’s
and PhD theses (see tabell B.2), there are some that only apply to master’s theses.
These are listed in tabell B.14.
3The L
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to be more interested in maintaining the class files for writing licentiate’s and PhD theses than class
files for master’s theses.
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Tabell B.14: \setupThesis key-value pairs for master’s theses, in addition
to those listed in tabell B.2. Note that values that include white space are
surrounded by braces.
Key =Example value Comment
swetitle = {Svensk titel} Title in Swedish
swesubtitle = {Bra grejer} Optional Swedish subtitle
month = 4
day = 9
subject = reglerteknik
site = {Bosses AB i Linkan}
division = {Avdelningenrt...}
department = isy See tabell B.15
examiner = {Lena Lärare...} Details given below
supervisor = {Doktorand Si} Details given below
keywords = {this, that} Appears on library page
isrn = LiTH-ISY-EX... See below
url = {http://...} Thesis download url, see below
The value for the key department must be one of the special values listed
in tabell B.15. This setting controls both the department name and address, as
well as how the special pages of the thesis are formatted. Please help the rtthesis
maintainer to keep the special pages for your department up to date.
In the values for the keys examiner and supervisor, multiple persons should
be separated using \AND, and the affiliation of a person should appear after \AT,
like this:
supervisor={Doktorand Si \AT \textsc{isy}, Linköpings universitet
\AND Ingenjör Så \AT Företaget},
The isrn4should be something like
isrn=LITH-ISY-EX-{}-YY/NNNN-{}-SE
but the format varies between di↵erent departments. Note that if the report
identifier contains two or three consecutive dashes, they have to be separated
by empty braces in the input to prevent L
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character. The thesis download url should be something like
url={http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-XXXXX}
The exact details regarding the report number and url will be given to you
by the librarian when you register your thesis.
4The iso standard for isrn was withdrawn in 2007, but the report numbering system is still in use
at Linköping University.
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Tabell B.15: Recognized values for the key department in tabell B.14.
department Department of. . . Updated
ida Computer and Information Science Not after 2008-08-01
ifm Physics, Chemistry and Biology 2011-07-03
iei Management and Engineering Out of date!
isy Electrical Engineering 2011-07-03
itn Science and Technology 2011-07-03
mai Mathematics 2011-07-03
B.22.2 Special pages
The requirements on a master’s thesis include that certain information go on the
front page and title page of the thesis. Further, a library page for cataloging purpo-
ses is required at the beginning of the thesis, and a page with copyright informa-
tion is required at the end. The copyright page is automatically added at the end.
The other special pages can be produced using the macros \makeFrontPage,
\maketitle (as usual), and \makeLibraryPage. These macros are meant to
be invoked more or less immediately after \begin{document}, see the bund-
led example for details. Note that in the printed report, the front page should be
replaced by the cover, and the library page is probably meant to be on a loose
piece of paper inserted between the cover and the title page.
There is no magic that puts the correct abstract on the library page, but the
abstract must be given as an argument to \makeLibraryPage. To make sure
that this is exactly the same as the abstract in the thesis, it is recommended that
you write the abstract text without any surrounding abstract environment in
a separate file, say svensk-sammanfattning.tex. Then you can use this file twice,
like this:
\makeLibraryPage{\input{svensk-sammanfattning}}
\begin{abstract}[swedish]
\input{svensk-sammanfattning}
\end{abstract}
(The bundled example uses this technique.)
B.22.3 Choice of language
If your main report language will be Swedish, put
\selectlanguage{swedish}
right after
\begin{document}
Also make sure to provide the thesis title (and possibly subtitle) in Swedish
via the keys swetitle and swesubtitle to \setupThesis. You may then omit wri-
ting an abstract in English.
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If your main report language will be English you don’t need to change the
default choice of language. However, you must provide a thesis title both in Eng-
lish and Swedish, and the thesis should contain abstracts in both English and
Swedish.
B.23 Compiling the document
Using all the current features of rtthesis, the following sequence of steps is usual-
ly sufficient to compile your document. Let us assume your main file is named
main.tex.
• First run
pdflatex main
to scan your document for references, labels, and index items.
• Then run
bibtex main
to extract relevant references from your bibliography file(s). If you are using
the bibunits package, you also have to process some additional files;
bibtex bu1; bibtex bu2; ...; bibtex bun
• If you have an index in your document, run
makeindex main
to format it.
• Then run
pdflatex main
to insert references in the typeset document. This will typically move things
around, and your page references will be invalidated.
• Hopefully, it is enough to run
pdflatex main
once more now to get the page references right. You will get a warning if
you need to repeat this step.
In addition to the steps above, certain auxiliary files must be deleted when
certain features of the class are turned on or o↵. In particular, turning hyperlinks
on or o↵requires the following.
rm main.aux main.toc main.ind
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Tabell B.16: Files with logotype graphics used by rtthesis. Use the command
kpsewhich to find where the files are located!
Filename Use
LinkUniv sigill sv.pdf For the cover and the first page in PhD
theses.
LiTH staende eng sv.pdf For the cover of both licentiate’s and
PhD theses.
rtlogo tall.pdf For the first page in licentiate’s theses.
B.24 Generating a thesis cover and the “spikblad”
A thesis cover can be created by making a file that contains the \makecover com-
mand. For example, given that mythesis.sty invokes the \setupThesis com-
mand with the necessary information (see tabell B.2), a PhD thesis cover can be
made as follows.
\documentclass[utf8,phd]{rtthesis}
\usepackage{mythesis}
\makecover
Note that while all licentiate’s theses should have the same cover, there is no
standard (but many rules set by the university!) for the PhD theses. The \makecover
command gives a “classic” cover that quite a few people have used over the years.
This cover might also be useful as a means to compile the information needed
when LiU-Tryck (or some other printing company) designs a more artistic cover.
For a dissertation, there should always be a “spikblad” (literally, nailing she-
et). Such an information sheet can be generated easily if the English abstract is
put in a separate file. In this case, the same abstract can be included both in the
thesis and in a separate file that defines the “spikblad”. For a licentiate’s thesis
presentation, a similar information sheet should be produced. The monograph
example demonstrates how to created these, see the files spikblad.tex (for disser-
tations) and licinfo.tex (for licentiate’s thesis presentations).
B.25 Required logotypes (not included with rtthesis)
Tabell B.16 lists files with logotype graphics that are needed by rtthesis. They are
not part of the rtthesis bundle since they are used in many other contexts as well.
Users at the Division of Automatic Control should have access to these files via
the group’s common texmf tree, but in order to be able to work at home you will
have to make sure one way or another that the files are installed.
Beware that the university changes logos quite often. Make sure that there are
no new versions of the logos you use. If the logos are old, please, let the rtthesis
maintainer know so that the files get updated at the central location.
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B.26 Compatibility with standard packages
Incompatibilities between di↵erent packages is a problem that quickly becomes
quite an issue when the list of packages used in a document grows beyond just a
few. It may sound strange, but it is because of compatibility problems that rtthesis
includes a rather long list of packages for you. The reason is that this allows
knowledge about package loading order requirements and various workarounds,
to be encoded in the class file.
No list of packages included by rtthesis will be presented here, but you should
check the class file directly to be sure that you always get the correct answer
to whether a package is included or not (or you can just read the compilation
output).
Packages with no known compatibility issues will generally not be included
by rtthesis unless needed by the class itself. The following list contains some ex-
amples of useful packages that are not included by rtthesis. They should be com-
patible with rtthesis. Please let the rtthesis maintainer know if any of these are no
longer compatible, or if you have suggestions for other packages that should be
mentioned here.
•nextpage — page break control
•algorithm — code listings
•listings — code listings
•SIunits — physical dimensions
•pmat — partitioned matrices
•bm — bold math
•footmisc — extras for footnotes
•dcolumn — decimal point alignment in tables (the already included array can
also do this)
•lettrine — start chapter with fancy letter
•supertabular — multi-page tables
•longtable — multi-page tables
•multirow — tabular entries occupying more than one row

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