EMES Template for Bachelor’s or Master’s Thesis

This template aims to give students a template for their bachelor's or master's thesis.

This template is brought to you by the Laboratory for Electrical Instrumentation and Embedded Systems at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg

Please note: We do not provide technical support for this template. However, please feel free to contribute to this template on GitHub: https://github.com/imtekalex/emes_template

Authors: Alexander Richter, Till Steinmann, Andreas Reichenbach

Building locally using docker

In case overleaf isn't available or you want to use a local environment(VSCode, Texstudio, ...), you can use the docker image provided here.

1. build the image with docker build -t emes-latex-builder .

2. create a container, mount your working directory in the /latex folder of the container:

   docker create -it -v <path_to_your_thesis>:/latex --name latex-builder emes-latex-builder

3. To compile the thesis run: docker start -a latex-builder

Tip

When using Texstudio input the command from step 3 as an user command under
Options -> Configure -> Build -> User Commands
You can then run it with Alt + Shift + F1

Warning

The official Arial fonts can only be installed with some detour. Replacement fonts are installed in the container. Change the font in settings+/settings.tex to Liberation Sans or Liberation Serif. Otherwise you get compilation errors. See wiki for details.

ToDo:

• Cover: I find it unusual that the author's name is the smallest and about in the middle of the page. Suggestion: Name further up
• Cover: No typographic separation (other than font size) is unusual. Suggestion: "Master's Thesis" in italics, title in bold.
• Declaration: I am missing a title page or the title on p. 3, the (non-existent) title page would be page i.
• Declaration: Centering seems unusual to me, since nothing is centered on the cover (or anywhere else).
• Declaration: I would prevent the breaks in the lab names.
• Headers: Unusual that there are no page numbers on the first pages of the chapters. If text, then page number.
• Headers: The chapter name in the header on both pages is also unusual.
• Bibliography: The bibliography is usually placed at the end.
• Bibliography: References to books always contain the publisher and place.
• Bibliography: DOI should be at the end without a period.
• Glossary: The spaces at "e.g." are inconsistent.
• Glossary: Arabic page numbering usually continues to the end.

Feature suggestion:

• Centralize Language settings so that individual chapters are also built correctly.