#Thesis

My PhD Thesis. The script used to generate the final versions is over at mrshll100/markdown-thesis

#For readers

Source is in markdown, run build.py to build for various formats. You can build by either entire thesis + format or chapter + format. It's basically a wrapper for a complex pandoc command and will therefore accept all formats pandoc can convert to from markdown. PDF rendering is done via HTML5 as LaTeX doesn't like SVG files naturally.

e.g. ./build.py chapter 1 html produces a HTML rendering of Chapter 1, ./build.py chapter 6 odt will give you an OpenDocument file of Chapter 6.

There are two special options:

• build.py chapters $FORMAT generates every chapter individually in the given format.
• build.py website generates a website with coversheet. Used for thesis.mrshll.uk

Scripts will build into an out directory and then a subdirectory for their specific format e.g. out/html or out/odt. /out is ignored by git, so you need to run a build script to acquire the desired format.

/templates currently contains the coversheet template used by the website command but may in future contain custom LaTeX templates for nice PDF rendering. Pandoc is run with the --self-contained flag to pull in any resources to the output file.

#For me writing it

• Make sure to grab a copy of BetterBibTeX for Zotero to handle generating nicer citation keys.
• BetterBibTeX is great, but its default citation key format has changed three times since beginning this thesis so you'll need to fiddle with it.
• Preferences -> BetterBibTeX and then change citation key format to [auth:lower][shorttitle3_3][year]