thesis-fos-uop-latex

*Note that this readme is a work-in-progress. This will be updated with more information

Todo

• Add appendix

Introduction

This is a project report/thesis template for B.Sc. Computer Science of Faculty of Science, University of Peradeniya. This might be suitable for other study programs with minor adjustments. But this template is based on the B.Sc. Computer Science program requirements. This is made using the offical thesis guidelines. This is not an official template provided by the institution. View sample pdf of this template here.

Prerequisites

This project requires XeLaTeX to build and compile. Might fail to compile with pdfLaTeX. XeLaTeX is needed to load the Times New Roman font style.

If you are using pdfLaTeX comment out the following section in the fosuop.cls.

\RequirePackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont[Path=fonts/,
    BoldItalicFont=timesbi.ttf,
    BoldFont=timesbd.ttf,
    ItalicFont=timesi.ttf
]{times.ttf}

Project structure

The following tree diagram shows the file structure of the project.

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├── fosuop.cls                  // latex class with all custom modifications
├── main.tex                    // main .tex file
├── references.bib              // references file
├── fonts/
│   ├── times.ttf
│   ├── timesbd.ttf
│   ├── timesbi.ttf
│   └── timesi.ttf
├── images
├── main-chapters/              // main body of the thesis
│   ├── 1-introduction.tex
│   ├── 2-literature.tex
│   ├── 3-design.tex
│   ├── 4-implementation.tex
│   ├── 5-results.tex
│   └── 6-conclusion.tex
├── prefatory-chapters/         // prefatory pages
│   ├── 0-abbreviations.tex     // abbreviations and descriptions
│   ├── 0-abstract.tex
│   ├── 0-acknowledgement.tex
│   ├── 0-declaration.tex
│   └── 0-title.tex             // title page
├── .gitignore
├── README.md
└── LICENSE

How to compile?

Compile the main.tex to get the pdf.

Bugfixes and features

• If any bugs are found please open issues.
• If there are fixes to bugs please open a PR to the dev branch.
• Additionally if there are any new feature requests please open an issue and if there are any feature implementations open a PR to the dev branch.