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== Using the <code>Memoir</code> Package == | == Using the <code>Memoir</code> Package == | ||
I use the [https://ctan.org/pkg/memoir <code>memoir</code>] LaTeX package to format my dissertation as a book. You may have encountered <code>memoir</code> before if you’ve used the latex templates in the <code>cdsc_tex</code> repository that [[User:Mako|Mako]] maintains. Memoir really shines for book length projects such as your dissertation, and like a book, it is aware of when pages are on the right or the left side of the book. It comes with some attractive formatting styles, creates a fancy table of contents and lets you insert section-specific bibliographies. | I use the [https://ctan.org/pkg/memoir <code>memoir</code>] LaTeX package to format my dissertation as a book. You may have encountered <code>memoir</code> before if you’ve used the latex templates in the <code>cdsc_tex</code> repository that [[User:Mako|Mako]] maintains. Memoir really shines for book length projects such as your dissertation, and like a book, it is aware of when pages are on the right or the left side of the book. It comes with some attractive formatting styles, creates a fancy table of contents, and lets you insert section-specific bibliographies. | ||
Following the required front matter, my dissertation opens like an academic book, with a table of contents, a list of tables and a list of figures. Memoir generates these automatically with the spell: | Following the required front matter, my dissertation opens like an academic book, with a table of contents, a list of tables and a list of figures. Memoir generates these automatically with the spell: | ||
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=== References === | === References === | ||
Normally, a dissertation or other book-length project has a single bibliography at the end. So even though your articles will have their own bibliographies, you’ll want to consolidate them. Fortunately, | Normally, a dissertation or other book-length project has a single bibliography at the end. So even though your articles will have their own bibliographies, you’ll want to consolidate them. Fortunately, <code>memoir</code> will do this be default. You’ll just need a single <code>\printbibliography</code> command after your last chapter. | ||
To help show off all the work I did during my PhD that’s related to my dissertation project, I included some papers as appendices. Since these were stand-alone papers that weren’t really part of the dissertation, I printed separate bibliographies for each using the <code>\refsection</code> command. Putting an appendix in a separate <code>\refsection</code> makes <code>\printbibliography</code> print only the citations that were used within the appendix. | To help show off all the work I did during my PhD that’s related to my dissertation project, I included some papers as appendices. Since these were stand-alone papers that weren’t really part of the dissertation, I printed separate bibliographies for each using the <code>\refsection</code> command. Putting an appendix in a separate <code>\refsection</code> makes <code>\printbibliography</code> print only the citations that were used within the appendix. | ||
I didn’t bother creating a new <code>.bib</code> file for the dissertation. I just added symbolic links to the <code>.bib</code> files for my different articles to the project and used the <code>\addbibresource</code> command. I get a lot of <code>Duplicate entry key</code> warnings from <code>biblatex</code> this way, but it’s doesn’t affect the <code>.pdf</code> output. | I didn’t bother creating a new <code>.bib</code> file for the dissertation. I just added symbolic links to the <code>.bib</code> files for my different articles to the project and used the <code>\addbibresource</code> command. I get a lot of <code>Duplicate entry key</code> warnings from <code>biblatex</code> this way, but it’s doesn’t affect the <code>.pdf</code> output. |