
== ETH Dissertation ==

This is the sample input configuration for my dissertation. The files are optimized to 
produce a dissertation at the ETH in Zurich. Especially things like the title-page and
a nice produced index are a good basis to ensure a trouble free environment to write up.

some goodies are included such as:

* several nice links in the PDF file
* meta-information in the PDF
* different page-numbering, also appears in the PDF
* documentation for sub-figures
* wrapfig for floating figures beside the text
* window for a sample calculation beside the text
* timestamp to know the exact compile time
* URLs in the bibliography
* a nice CV at the end

Especially the PDF production with PDFLateX is ensured.

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start: 

unpack the files, install MikTex and winedt under Windoze or Tetex under Linux. Open 
all *.tex files and start to edit.

Press the 'little bear with the Acrobat logo' in winedt (Windoze) or type 'make pdf' under
linux (denote that for this step Acroread has to be installed).

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content:

diss.tex - the main file of the dissertation
diss.ist - needed for the index at the end of the diss
diss.bib - bibliography file. nice to edit with Jabref (http://jabref.sf.net)
*.tex - LaTeX input files for the different chapters
formal - the folder containing all the formal stuff (incl. curvita.sty for the CV)
images - the folder containing all the images 

additional programs:

Makefile - the makefile for the dissertation, working nice on Un*x systems. type 
'make pdf' to compile and directly show the PDF file with acroread. 'make tb' makes a 
daily backup of all TeX files. Also generates the thumbnails for the pages.

getdissentries - takes out all references in the actual dissertations and allows to 
put the output to the bibliography. With Jabref (http://jabref.sf.net) it is 
possible to have a own section like 'this files are referenced within my diss'

img_checkscript - looks which images are actually used in the dissertation. It is nice
to clean the images sub directory every now and then.


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images: 

normally the images were produced in CorelDraw. I put all the images to about the right side 
in the corel file and selected the parts for the export. With 'Publish to PDF' I exported the 
PDF files. To cut out the unused part I cut the figure out with Acrobat 7.0. (denote that the 
normal Acrobat Reader does NOT work.

large images (like photos) can also be included in PNG format. I used Photoshop to produce
nice PNGs.

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Please note that the content scrambled completely for the purpose of simple compiling and
making a sample LaTeX input of the dissertation!!!

modify the files as much as you want.

Ilja Gerhardt - ilja@cryptix.de - 3. 12. 2006
