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LaTeX specific issues not fitting into one of the other forums of this category.
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thorstenmz
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Template advice

Post by thorstenmz »

Hi all!

My university's Department of Computer Science offers two templates for bachelor theses. Having found that both templates' Makefiles don't work correctly on a freshly installed Ubuntu 12.10, I'd like to urge corrections.

As I'm not an expert on Latex, I'd be very happy to hear your opinions on these templates. I don't beg for a complete overhaul. Any little advice will be appreciated.

http://wwwvs.cs.hs-rm.de/material/
(-> "Bachelor Thesis")

http://www.mi.hs-rm.de/~barth/hsrm/absc ... /index.rst
(-> "Template für eine Thesis")

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Johannes_B
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Template advice

Post by Johannes_B »

Templates like this are usually a bad idea.
Markus Kohm wrote something concerning templates.
In your example, there are obsolete packages, too.
If you are a novice to LaTeX, do not start with this template, you will run into errors.

Examples in your linked files:
package inputenc is loaded with options, might give you problems with german umlauts, if your file is not by chance encoded the way iit is told to LaTeX with the option.
In one example, babel is loaded with the option german, giving you hyphenation rules for the old german orthography, I guess you do not want that.

Of course, you can change all that, but it is usually better to start from scratch.
The smart way: Calm down and take a deep breath, read posts and provided links attentively, try to understand and ask if necessary.
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