UC Berkeley PhD thesis template

Pulled from Paul Vojta's website and slightly adapted.

configuration

Make sure to set the variables in src/configuration.tex. In addition, make sure to correctly set the documentclass in the beginning of files src/thesis.tex and src/approvalpage.tex if writing a masters thesis.

required tooling

You obviously need LaTeX installed with a working version of pdflatex. The only other software you need is latexmk. If you are running TeX Live, you can install it using the package manager:

tlmgr install latexmk

targets

• all make everything
• approval make the approval page
• pdf make the pdf
• clean clean up everything
• link make symbolic links into the directory pdf of the approval page and the actual thesis

gulp

There is a gulpfile.js included. You don't need to use it, but it is pretty convenient if you like to look at your changes instantly. It simply runs the all target if anything in src/ has changed.

In order for this to work, you need to have npm installed and gulp installed. Assuming npm is installed, run the following:

npm install --global gulp-cli