PG LaTeX thesis template

The intention of this repo is to provide a working LaTeX template for writing bachelor and master theses for students of Politechnika Gdańska (Gdańsk University of Technology). The template was prepared to be compliant with editorial guidelines from the year 2018 which are available on the university website (document contains guidelines in Polish and English). Some inspiration was taken also from guidelines from the year 2014 which are more detailed than the latest version.

Supported languages

The only supported language is Polish, however it shouldn't be very hard to adjust the template for writing in English. Polish requires additional options, so some of the changes is just removing Polish-specific settings.

Then why is this readme in English?

Mostly out of habit, as I've never experienced any addBag/dodajWorek™️ issues during my studies, so I always tend to write code and documentation in English even if Polish here makes more sense.

Setup

Clone the repo, and make sure that main.tex compiles into a PDF on your system. The template was successfully tested against TeXLive 2022.

Overleaf

If you prefer working in Overleaf, here you can access the files for this template: https://www.overleaf.com/read/mngqxzfvdhpk.

How to use?

This repo should be treated a sample project, so you're supposed to copy the files and edit them freely. The most of the actual settings live in config/preamble.sty. To be compliant with PG, you probably don't want to modify existing settings there unless you're fixing something (pull request is welcomed in this case).

Depending on your needs, you might want to include more packages and settings in this file to get access to some more niche LaTeX features provided by packages not included in the template by default.

Structure and conventions

The below diagram describes all important parts of the template. You should also take a look at the notes in the example chapter which describes how to add figures, tables, and citations along with some good practices. It's a good idea to analyze both the raw TeX, and the generated PDF (you can get the PDF easily from the Overleaf linked above).

main.tex
 \_ Entry point of the template, start here to understand how the rest
    of the files is referenced
config
  \_ preamble.sty      # The heart of the template with most settings
  \_ bibliography.bib  # Put your bibliography positions here
  \_ macros.sty        # Define your macros here
chapters # A TeX file per chapter
  \_ 01.tex
  \_ 02.tex
figures
  \_ Graphics, images etc.
misc
  \_ TeX files which are not chapters but are part of the thesis
pdf
  \_ Here you should put PDFs which will be included as separate pages
     into your thesis
tables
  \_ Big and complex tables can be defined here and with `\input{}`
     included in chapters

Misc

In some places, you can notice a bit strange formatting with LaTeX comments % at the end of lines. This was done to prevent automatic wrapping of lines by stkb/Rewrap VS Code extension.

See also

• jachoo/pg-beamer
  A PG template for creating LaTeX presentations

• splaw1k/PG_LaTeX_Templates
  Another PG thesis template available on GitHub

• typografia.info
  Writing a thesis is not writing a book, but some typographic knowledge is nice to have if you decided to be a LaTeX guy (some people really prefer Word)

• James-Yu/LaTeX-Workshop
  If you're new to LaTeX and already familiar with VS Code, you can try this extension before installing full-fledged LaTeX "IDE"

Contributing

All fixes, proposed updates, or comments are welcome!