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\chapter{Introduction}\label{ch:introduction}
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This bundle for \LaTeX\ has two goals:
\begin{enumerate}
    \item Provide students with an easy-to-use template for their
    Master's
    or PhD thesis. (Though it might also be used by other types of
    authors
    for reports, books, etc.)
    \item Provide a classic, high-quality typographic style that is
    inspired by \cauthor{bringhurst:2002}'s ``\emph{The Elements of
    Typographic Style}'' \citep{bringhurst:2002}.
    \marginpar{\myTitle \myVersion}
\end{enumerate}
The bundle is configured to run with a \emph{full} 
MiK\TeX\ or \TeX Live\footnote{See the file \texttt{LISTOFFILES} for
needed packages. Furthermore, \texttt{classicthesis} 
works with most other distributions and, thus, with most systems 
\LaTeX\ is available for.} 
installation right away and, therefore, it uses only freely available 
fonts. (Minion fans can easily adjust the style to their needs.)

People interested only in the nice style and not the whole bundle can
now use the style stand-alone via the file \texttt{classicthesis.sty}.
This works now also with ``plain'' \LaTeX.

As of version 3.0, \texttt{classicthesis} can also be easily used with 
LyX\footnote{\url{http://www.lyx.org}} thanks to Nicholas Mariette 
and Ivo Pletikosi\'c. The LyX version of this manual will contain
more information on the details.

This should enable anyone with a basic knowledge of \LaTeXe\ or LyX to
produce beautiful documents without too much effort. In the end, this
is my overall goal: more beautiful documents, especially theses, as I
am tired of seeing so many ugly ones.

The whole template and the used style is released under the
\textsmaller{GNU} General Public License. 

If you like the style then I would appreciate a postcard:
\begin{center}
 André Miede \\
 Detmolder Straße 32 \\
 31737 Rinteln \\
 Germany
\end{center}
The postcards I received so far are available at:
\begin{center}
 \url{http://postcards.miede.de}
\end{center}
\marginpar{A well-balanced line width improves the legibility of
the text. That's what typography is all about, right?}
So far, many theses, some books, and several other publications have 
been typeset successfully with it. If you are interested in some
typographic details behind it, enjoy Robert Bringhurst's wonderful book.
% \citep{bringhurst:2002}.

\paragraph{Important Note:} Some things of this style might look
unusual at first glance, many people feel so in the beginning.
However, all things are intentionally designed to be as they are,
especially these:
\begin{itemize}
    \item No bold fonts are used. Italics or spaced small caps do the
    job quite well.
    \item The size of the text body is intentionally shaped like it
    is. It supports both legibility and allows a reasonable amount of
    information to be on a page. And, no: the lines are not too short.
    \item The tables intentionally do not use vertical or double
    rules. See the documentation for the \texttt{booktabs} package for
    a nice discussion of this topic.\footnote{To be found online at \\
    \url{http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/booktabs/}.}
    \item And last but not least, to provide the reader with a way
    easier access to page numbers in the table of contents, the page
    numbers are right behind the titles. Yes, they are \emph{not}
    neatly aligned at the right side and they are \emph{not} connected
    with dots that help the eye to bridge a distance that is not
    necessary. If you are still not convinced: is your reader
    interested in the page number or does she want to sum the numbers
    up?
\end{itemize}
Therefore, please do not break the beauty of the style by changing
these things unless you really know what you are doing! Please.


\section{Organization}
A very important factor for successful thesis writing is the
organization of the material. This template suggests a structure as
the following:
\begin{itemize}
    \marginpar{You can use these margins for summaries of the text
    body\dots}
    \item\texttt{Chapters/} is where all the ``real'' content goes in
    separate files such as \texttt{Chapter01.tex} etc.
 %  \item\texttt{Examples/} is where you store all listings and other
 %  examples you want to use for your text.
    \item\texttt{FrontBackMatter/} is where all the stuff goes that
    surrounds the ``real'' content, such as the acknowledgments,
    dedication, etc.
    \item\texttt{gfx/} is where you put all the graphics you use in
    the thesis. Maybe they should be organized into subfolders
    depending on the chapter they are used in, if you have a lot of
    graphics.
    \item\texttt{Bibliography.bib}: the Bib\TeX\ database to organize
    all the references you might want to cite.
    \item\texttt{classicthesis.sty}: the style definition to get this
    awesome look and feel. Does not only work with this thesis template
    but also on its own (see folder \texttt{Examples}). Bonus: works
    with both \LaTeX\ and \textsc{pdf}\LaTeX\dots and LyX.
    \item\texttt{ClassicThesis.tcp} a \TeX nicCenter project file.
    Great tool and it's free!
    \item\texttt{ClassicThesis.tex}: the main file of your thesis
    where all gets bundled together.
    \item\texttt{classicthesis-preamble.sty}: a central place to load all 
    nifty packages that are used. You can also load it with the option
    \texttt{backref} in order to have information about where a source
    was cited in the bibliography.
    
    \emph{Make your changes and adjustments here.} This means that you  
    specify here the options you want to load \texttt{classicthesis.sty} 
    with. You also adjust the title of your thesis, your name, and all 
    similar information here. Refer to \autoref{sec:custom} for more 
    information.
    
		This had to change as of version 3.0 in order to enable an easy 
		transition from the ``basic'' style to LyX.
    
\end{itemize}
In total, this should get you started in no time.


\section{Style Options}\label{sec:options}
There are a couple of options for \texttt{classicthesis.sty} that
allow for a bit of freedom concerning the layout:
\marginpar{\dots or your supervisor might use the margins for some
    comments of her own while reading.}
\begin{itemize}
	\item General:
		\begin{itemize}
			\item\texttt{drafting}: prints the date and time at the bottom of
    each page, so you always know which version you are dealing with.
    Might come in handy not to give your Prof. that old draft.
		\end{itemize}
	
	\item Parts and Chapters:
		\begin{itemize}
			\item\texttt{parts}: if you use Part divisions for your document,
    you should choose this option. (Cannot be used together with 
    \texttt{nochapters}.)
    
			\item\texttt{nochapters}: allows to use the look-and-feel with 
    classes that do not use chapters, \eg, for articles. Automatically
    turns off a couple of other options: \texttt{eulerchapternumbers}, 
    \texttt{linedheaders}, \texttt{listsseparated}, and \texttt{parts}. 
    
	    \item\texttt{linedheaders}: changes the look of the chapter
	    headings a bit by adding a horizontal line above the chapter
	    title. The chapter number will also be moved to the top of the
	    page, above the chapter title.
    
		\end{itemize}

  \item Typography:
		\begin{itemize}
				\item\texttt{eulerchapternumbers}: use figures from Hermann Zapf's
    Euler math font for the chapter numbers. By default, old style
    figures from the Palatino font are used.
    
        \item\texttt{beramono}: loads Bera Mono as typewriter font. 
    (Default setting is using the standard CM typewriter font.)
    \item\texttt{eulermath}: loads the awesome Euler fonts for math. 
    (Palatino is used as default font.)
    
		    \item\texttt{pdfspacing}: makes use of pdftex' letter spacing
		    capabilities via the \texttt{microtype} package.\footnote{Use 
		    \texttt{microtype}'s \texttt{DVIoutput} option to generate
		    DVI with pdftex.} This fixes some serious issues regarding 
		    math formul\ae\ etc. (\eg, ``\ss'') in headers. 
		    
		    \item\texttt{minionprospacing}: uses the internal \texttt{textssc}
		    command of the \texttt{MinionPro} package for letter spacing. This 
		    automatically enables the \texttt{minionpro} option and overrides
		    the \texttt{pdfspacing} option.
    
		\end{itemize}  

	\item Table of Contents:
		\begin{itemize}
			 \item\texttt{tocaligned}: aligns the whole table of contents on
		    the left side. Some people like that, some don't.
		    
		    \item\texttt{dottedtoc}: sets pagenumbers flushed right in the 
		    table of contents.

			\item\texttt{manychapters}: if you need more than nine chapters for 
	    your document, you might not be happy with the spacing between the 
	    chapter number and the chapter title in the Table of Contents. 
	    This option allows for additional space in this context. 
	    However, it does not look as ``perfect'' if you use
	    \verb|\parts| for structuring your document.
		    
		\end{itemize}
    
	\item Floats:
		\begin{itemize}
    \item\texttt{listings}: loads the \texttt{listings} package (if not 
    already done) and configures the List of Listings accordingly.
    
    \item\texttt{floatperchapter}: activates numbering per chapter for
    all floats such as figures, tables, and listings (if used).	
    
	    \item\texttt{subfig}(\texttt{ure}): is passed to the \texttt{tocloft} 
	    package to enable compatibility with the \texttt{subfig}(\texttt{ure}) 
	    package. Use this option if you want use classicthesis with the
	    \texttt{subfig} package.
    	
%    \item\texttt{listsseparated}: will add extra space between table
%    and figure entries of different chapters in the list of tables or
%    figures, respectively. % Deprecated as of version 2.9.
		\end{itemize}    
 
% 	\item\texttt{a5paper}: adjusts the page layout according to the
%    global \texttt{a5paper} option (\emph{experimental} feature).
%    \item\texttt{minionpro}: sets Robert Slimbach's Minion as the 
%    main font of the document. The textblock size is adjusted 
%    accordingly.    

   \end{itemize}
The best way to figure these options out is to try the different
possibilities and see, what you and your supervisor like best.

In order to make things easier in general, 
\texttt{classicthesis-preamble.sty} 
contains some useful commands that might help you.


\section{Customization}\label{sec:custom}
%(As of v3.0, the Classic Thesis Style for \LaTeX{} and \LyX{} share
%the same two \texttt{.sty} files.)
This section will give you some hints about how to adapt 
\texttt{classicthesis} to your needs.

The file \texttt{classicthesis.sty}
contains the core functionality of the style and in most cases will
be left intact, whereas the file \texttt{classic\-thesis-preamble.sty}
is used for some common user customizations. 

The first customization you are about to make is to alter the document
title, author name, and other thesis details. In order to do this, replace
the data in the following lines of \texttt{classicthesis-preamble.sty:}%
\marginpar{Modifications in \texttt{classic\-thesis-preamble.sty}%
}

\begin{lstlisting}[frame=lt]
% **************************************************
% Re-usable information 
% **************************************************
\newcommand{\myTitle}{A Classic Thesis Style\xspace} 
\newcommand{\mySubtitle}{An Homage to...\xspace} 
\end{lstlisting}


Further customization can be made in \texttt{classicthesis-preamble.sty}
by choosing the options to \texttt{classicthesis.sty} 
(see~\autoref{sec:options}) in a line that looks like this:


\begin{lstlisting}[frame=lt]
\PassOptionsToPackage{eulerchapternumbers,drafting,listings,subfig,eulermath,parts}{classicthesis}
\end{lstlisting}


If you want to use backreferences from your citations to the pages
they were cited on, uncomment the following line:
\begin{lstlisting}[breaklines=false,frame=lt]
\PassOptionsToPackage{backref}{classicthesis-preamble} 
\end{lstlisting}


Many other customizations in \texttt{classicthesis-preamble.sty} are
possible, but you should be careful making changes there, since some
changes could cause errors.

Finally, changes can be made in the file \texttt{classicthesis.sty},%
\marginpar{Modifications in \texttt{classicthesis.sty}%
} although this is mostly not designed for user customization. The
main change that might be made here is the text-block size, for example,
to get longer lines of text.


\section{Issues}\label{sec:issues}
This section will list some information about problems using
\texttt{classic\-thesis} in general or using it with other packages.

Beta versions of \texttt{classicthesis} can be found at the following 
Google code repository:
\begin{center}
	\url{http://code.google.com/p/classicthesis/}
\end{center}
There, you can also post serious bugs and problems you encounter.

\subsection*{Compatibility with the \texttt{glossaries} Package}
If you want to use the \texttt{glossaries} package, take care of loading it 
with the following options:
\begin{verbatim}
	\usepackage[style=long,nolist]{glossaries}
\end{verbatim}
Thanks to Sven Staehs for this information. 


\section{Future Work}
So far, this is a quite stable version that served a couple of people
well during their thesis time. However, some things are still not as
they should be. Proper documentation in the standard format is still
missing. In the long run, the style should probably be published
separately, with the template bundle being only an application of the
style. Alas, there is no time for that at the moment\dots it could be
a nice task for a small group of \LaTeX nicians.

Please do not send me email with questions concerning \LaTeX\ or the
template, as I do not have time for an answer. But if you have
comments, suggestions, or improvements for the style or the template
in general, do not hesitate to write them on that postcard of yours.


\section{Beyond a Thesis}
It is easy to use the layout of \texttt{classicthesis.sty} without the
framework of this bundle. To make it even easier, this section offers 
some plug-and-play-examples.

The \LaTeX -sources of these examples can be found in the folder 
with the name \texttt{Examples}. They have been tested with  
\texttt{latex} and \texttt{pdflatex} and are easy to compile. To 
assure you even a bit more, PDFs built from the sources can also 
be found in the folder. 
%(It might be necessary to adjust the path to 
%\texttt{classicthesis.sty} and \texttt{Bibliography.bib} within the 
%examples.)

\lstinputlisting[caption=An Article]%
    {Examples/classicthesis-article.tex}
    
\lstinputlisting[caption=A Book]%
    {Examples/classicthesis-book.tex}

\lstinputlisting[caption=A Curriculum Vit\ae]%
    {Examples/classicthesis-cv.tex}


\section{License}
\paragraph{GNU General Public License:} This program is free software;
you can redistribute it and/or modify
 it under the terms of the \textsmaller{GNU} General Public License as
 published by
 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
 (at your option) any later version.

 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 but \emph{without any warranty}; without even the implied warranty of
 \emph{merchantability} or \emph{fitness for a particular purpose}.
 See the
 \textsmaller{GNU} General Public License for more details.

 You should have received a copy of the \textsmaller{GNU} General
 Public License
 along with this program; see the file \texttt{COPYING}.  If not,
 write to
 the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
 Boston, \textsmaller{MA} 02111-1307, \textsmaller{USA}.

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