PEVŠ FI Thesis LaTeX Template

Official LaTeX template for bachelor/master thesis at Pan-European University, Faculty of Informatics

Features

• 📚 Bibliography according to STN ISO 690
• 🔧 Easy customization
• 🤖 Automatic list generation
• 📝 Glossary/Acronym support
• 🖼️ Figure management
• 💻 Code listing support

Prerequisites

• LaTeX distribution (e.g., TexLive)
• VSCode (optional)

Setup

Getting the Template

There are three ways to get started:

1. Use as Template (Recommended)

   • Visit the GitHub repository
   • Click the green "Use this template" button in the top right
   • Select "Create a new repository"
   • Follow the prompts to create your own repository

2. Download Release

   • Visit the GitHub repository
   • Download latest release
   • Extract the downloaded file to your preferred location

Customizing Content

After obtaining the template:

• Edit metadata.tex and fill out the metadata section, be carefull to choose type based on your studies bachelor/master
• Replace essentials/assignment.pdf with your own assignment
• Edit essentials/abstract.tex with your abstract
• Edit essentials/acknowledgment.tex and essentials/declaration.tex if necessary

Note: Remove Consultant row from the metadata.tex if not needed.

VS Code Setup

1. Install LaTeX Workshop extension
2. Set citation backend to biblatex
3. Add makeglossaries and biber to latex-workshop.latex.tools
4. Add a build recipe to latex-workshop.latex.recipes

Example build recipe:

{
    "name": "pdflatex ➞ makeglossaries ➞ biber ➞ pdflatex × 2",
    "tools": [
        "pdflatex",
        "makeglossaries",
        "biber",
        "pdflatex",
        "pdflatex"
    ]
} 

To use a specific recipe for your document, add this line at the beginning of main.tex (replace recipe-name):

%!LW recipe=recipe-name

Building the Document

Either use VS Code's LaTeX Workshop build button or run:

pdflatex main
makeglossaries main
biber main
pdflatex main
pdflatex main

Project Structure

.
├── essentials/            
│   ├── abstract.tex       # Abstract in SK/EN
│   ├── acknowledgment.tex # Acknowledgments
│   ├── acronyms.tex       # List of acronyms
│   ├── appendices.tex     # List of appendices
│   ├── bibliography.bib   # References
│   ├── declaration.tex    # Author's declaration
│   ├── titlepage.tex      # Main title page
│   ├── titlepage-alt.tex  # Secondary title page
│   └── assignment.pdf     # Assignment
├── examples/              
│   └── examples.tex       # Example usage demonstrations
├── lang/              
│   ├── english.tex        # English language mutation
│   └── slovak.tex         # Slovak language mutation
├── metadata.tex           # Metadata of the thesis
├── main.tex               # Main document
└── README.md              # This file

Usage

Adding content

You can start writing your thesis in the Document Body section of the main.tex file:

%%%%%%% DOCUMENT BODY %%%%%%%
\section{Úvod}
Your content here...

For better organization, split your content into separate files:

% %%%%%%% DOCUMENT BODY %%%%%%%
\include{chapters/introduction}
\include{chapters/implementation}
\include{chapters/summary}

The examples section is mostly defined by the university, use it as a reference.

Note: Remove \include{examples/examples} from main.tex in your final build.

Bibliography

References are stored in essentials/bibliography.bib and displayed using the STN ISO 690 norm. Examples are provided in file.

@book{borgman2003from,
author = {Borgman, Christine L.},
title = {From {Gutenberg} to the Global Information Infrastructure},
subtitle = {Access to Information in the Networked World},
location = {Cambridge (Mass.)},
publisher = {The MIT Press},
date = {2003},
pagetotal = {xviii, 324},
isbn = {0-262-52345-0},
langid = {english},
}

You can optionally set the citation style in main.tex bibliography section with style=style-name.

Available styles are: iso-authoryear(default) and iso-numeric. More info in the Citation section.

Note: Editing bibliography requires rebuilding your document using the full build recipe.

Citation

Template supports two citation styles:

1. Author-Year Style (iso-authoryear)

   • Using \parencite{} will add parenthesis around the reference
   • Format: \parencite{key} → (Author, Year)
   • Example: \parencite{knuth1984} → (Knuth, 1984)

   ---

   • Using \textcite{} will add reference in text
   • Format: \textcite{key} → Author, Year
   • Example: \textcite{knuth1984} → Knuth, 1984

2. Numeric Style (iso-numeric)

   • Using \cite{} will add number [X] in text and sort references by occurence
   • Format: \cite{key} → [1]
   • Example: \cite{knuth1984} → [1]

Note: Change citation style by modifying the style parameter in main.tex:

\usepackage[
    style=iso-authoryear, % or iso-numeric
]{biblatex}

Acronyms

Acronyms are stored in essentials/acronyms.tex.

Adding New Acronyms

Add new acronyms to the end of essentials/acronyms.tex using this template:

\newacronym
    [description={Your description here}]
    {label}{SHORT}{Long Form}

Example:

\newacronym
    [description={Visual modeling language for software design and architecture}]
    {UML}{UML}{Unified Modeling Language}

Using Acronyms

Use acronyms in your text with the \gls{label} command:

• First use displays: "Long Form (SHORT)"
• Subsequent uses display only: "SHORT"

Example:

First use: \gls{UML} will show "Unified Modeling Language (UML)"
Second use: \gls{UML} will show just "UML"

Note: Adding or modifying acronyms requires rebuilding your document using the full build recipe.

Images

Default Configuration

All images are automatically centered on the page and sized to 90% of text width.

Note: Default settings can be modified in main.tex in the Default image options section

Basic Usage

Insert an image with caption:

\begin{figure}[h]
    \includegraphics{path/to/your-image}
    \caption{Your caption here}
    \label{fig:unique-label}
\end{figure}

You can override default settings per image with arguments like:

\includegraphics[height=0.75\textwidth,angle=90]{image/to/rotate.png}

Code Blocks

Add a new codeblock and specify the language with:

\begin{lstlisting}[language=Python, caption={Your caption}, label={lst:python-example}]    
Your code here...
\end{lstlisting}

Note: Default settings can be modified in main.tex in the Code blocks section

License

This work is dedicated to the public domain under the CC0 1.0 Universal license.

To the extent possible under law, author has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.