My PhD Thesis

Author: Théophile CANTELOBRE Supervisors : Benjamin GUEDJ, Alessandro RUDI and Carlo CILIBERTO.

Building the file using MacOS

In the .latexmkrc file, include:

$pdf_previewer = 'open -a Skim';
$pdflatex = 'pdflatex -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode';
@generated_exts = (@generated_exts, 'synctex.gz');

Then, run latexmk -pdf -pvc -interaction=nonstopmode main.tex in a Terminal.

I wasn't able to get synctex working with Zed though.

Building from cloning the repo

This repo using git LFS :

brew install git-lfs
git lfs install
git lfs pull

Tips and tricks for future PhD students

• Use a single growing .bib file, for example from a bibliography management tool like Zotero. Concatenating .bib files is a pain (duplicate entries, ...).
• Use a single growing macro.sty file. This can be hard because journal and conference templates vary.
• Prepare a "vanilla" formatted edition of each paper / draft to make integration easier when writing your PhD.

Some Latex learnings

• Using babel for French messes with the sec:section-name convention I use because of the : while outputting cryptic error messages...
• For some reason ' (single quotes) are not handled in math-mode with this template.
• latexmk does not watch files that are 2 inputs in, i.e. main.tex has an \input(a) and a has an \input(b) then b is not watched by latexmk.

Template

Template proposed by Arthur Chavignon (2022) based on a template by Pierre Guillou (Version 1.2 (20 juillet 2019)) with PSL cover page. I downloaded it from Overleaf.