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== Project Organization == | == Project Organization == | ||
You probably want to break your dissertation up into several different <code>.tex</code> files. Although I prefer to work on paper-length projects of 8,000 to 14,000 words or so in a single file, for a book or dissertation-length project it clearly makes more sense to keep each chapter in a different file. Building a | You probably want to break your dissertation up into several different <code>.tex</code> files. Although I prefer to work on paper-length projects of 8,000 to 14,000 words or so in a single file, for a book or dissertation-length project it clearly makes more sense to keep each chapter in a different file. Building such a large <code>.tex</code> project can take awhile. Very long files are more cumbersome to edit, even when using a powerful editor like Emacs. You are likely to publish different chapters as stand-alone articles. Indeed, the central 3 chapters of my dissertation were composed as stand-alone research articles, and two of them were under review when I defended. | ||
To synchronize the publication and dissertation versions of these articles, I created a special <code>git</code> branch in the repositories for each project. The sole purpose of these branches was to make it convenient to merge any changes I made to the articles into the dissertation.<br /> | To synchronize the publication and dissertation versions of these articles, I created a special <code>git</code> branch in the repositories for each project. The sole purpose of these branches was to make it convenient to merge any changes I made to the articles into the dissertation.<br /> |