TAMU Thesis Class

TeX class for writing a Ph.D. thesis according to TAMU's Thesis Office specifications. I take advantage of both LuaLaTeX and the memoir class. The code is incomplete and imperfect, here's a summary of known non-features... (this list has shrunk considerably since I started :)

• Parts of it are somewhat rigid, and would require customization for people other than me.
  • I assume the committee chair is a Dr.
• The thesis office hasn't looked at any of the product documents. :)
  • I intend to show them my proposal, based on this template, to see if it cuts the mustard.

Cool features include:

• Margin notes which can be switched on/off (sort of a note to self feature)
• Hyperref is supported throught, but not required.
  • Automagic links figures/tables/etc. references to the original location in the document.
  • The \tref command, which automagically inserts both the kind of content as well as page information for references through judicous use of the varioref package's macros (e.g. \tref{bigPicture} → "Figure 3.2 on the following page" or \tref{incomeTaxBrackets} → "Table 2.8 on page 38")
  • The PDF page numbers actually correspond to the document page numbers (i.e. page 1 in the PDF menubar actually means page 1 of the main text, not the frontmatter stuff, which would appear as i, ii, iii, etc.)
• The use of the memoir class means that you can prepare a document fully compatible with the thesis office's specifications, then easily modify the layout macros to prepare a beautifully typeset document you'd actually want to have bound to show your mother. (e.g. you'd switch the linespacing to singlespace, print on both sides of a sheet of paper, use reasonable margins and font sizes, modify headers and footers, change appearance of new chapters, include epigraphs, etc. Basically, it could look like a legitimate pulished work, instead of a typewriter-like throwback to 1970... with very little effort.)