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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 \citeauthor{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
\mLyX\footnote{\url{http://www.lyx.org}} thanks to Nicholas Mariette
and Ivo Pletikosić. The \mLyX\ version of this manual will contain
more information on the details.

This should enable anyone with a basic knowledge of \LaTeXe\ or \mLyX\ 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
\acsfont{GNU} General Public License.

If you like the style then I would appreciate a postcard:
\begin{center}
    htw saar \\
    c/o André Miede \\
    Goebenstraße 40 \\
    66117 Saarbrücken \\
    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://mirror.ctan.org/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.

\paragraph{Yet Another Important Note:} Since \texttt{classicthesis}'
first release in 2006, many things have changed in the \LaTeX\ world.
Trying to keep up-to-date, \texttt{classicthesis} grew and evolved
into many directions, trying to stay (some kind of) stable and be
compatible with its port to \mLyX. However, there are still many
remains from older times in the code, many dirty workarounds here and
there, and several other things I am absolutely not proud of (for
example my unwise combination of \acsfont{KOMA} and
\texttt{titlesec} etc.).
\graffito{An outlook into the future of \texttt{classicthesis}.}

Currently, I am looking into how to completely re-design and
re-implement \texttt{classicthesis} making it easier to maintain and
to use. As a general idea, \texttt{classicthesis.sty} should be
developed and distributed separately from the template bundle itself.
Excellent spin-offs such as \texttt{arsclassica} could also be
integrated (with permission by their authors) as format configurations.
Also, current trends of \texttt{microtype}, \texttt{fontspec}, etc.
should be included as well. As I am not really into deep
\LaTeX\ programming,
I will reach out to the \LaTeX\ community for their expertise and help.


\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 \mLyX.
    % \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-config.tex}: a central place to load all
    nifty packages that are used. % In there, you can also activate
    % backrefs in order to have information in the bibliography about
    % where a source was cited in the text (\ie, the page number).

    \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 \mLyX.
\end{itemize}
In total, this should get you started in no time.


\clearpage
\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 Typography:
        \begin{itemize}
            \item\texttt{style}: this offers a comfortable way of changing the look and feel easily. Default style is \texttt{classicthesis}.

            A slight variation of the default style is \texttt{linedheaders}: it 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. For experimental and simplistic reasons, there is also a plain vanilla \texttt{plain} style, with chapters looking like sections (but with line).

            As a new feature, Lorenzo Pantieri's \texttt{arsclassica} is available as well. As Lorenzo's package is discontinued and with his permission, \texttt{classicthesis-arsclassica.sty} is now part of \texttt{classicthesis} and will be maintained here.

            \item\texttt{palatino}: Hermann Zapf's classic font is the free standard font for this style. Robert Bringhurst's book uses Adobe's commercial font Minion Pro. However, there are other free alternatives also available. Deactivate this option for loading such alternatives and see \texttt{classicthesis-config.tex} for some suggestions.

            \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.
            Pala\-tino is used as default font.

        \end{itemize}

    \marginpar{Options are enabled via \texttt{option=true}}

    \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).
        \end{itemize}

    \item Tweaking colors and fonts -- please use this with great care!:
        \begin{itemize}
            \item\verb|\ct@altfont|: comfortable hook to alter the basic look and feel of everything that uses spaced caps or spaced small caps. For example, for \texttt{arsclassica} we used \\ \verb|\renewcommand*{\ct@altfont}{\sffamily}|. Coloring is also possible this way.

            % \item\verb|\ct@caps|: spacedallcaps spacedlowsmallcaps

            \item\texttt{CTsemi}: Change the semi gray color used, \eg, for the chapter number. Default is: \verb|\definecolor{CTsemi}{gray}{0.55}|

            \item\texttt{CTtitle}: Change the red color used, \eg, for the title. Default is: \verb|\definecolor{CTtitle}{named}{Maroon}|

        \end{itemize}

\end{itemize}

Furthermore, pre-defined margins for different paper sizes are available, \eg, \texttt{a4paper}, \texttt{a5paper}, \texttt{b5paper}, and \texttt{letterpaper}. These are based on your chosen option of \verb|\documentclass|.

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, \texttt{classicthesis-config.tex}
contains some useful commands that might help you.


\section{Customization}\label{sec:custom}
%(As of v3.0, the Classic Thesis Style for \LaTeX{} and \mLyX{} share
%the same two \texttt{.sty} files.)
This section will show you some hints 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-config.tex}
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-config.tex:}%
\marginpar{Modifications in \texttt{classic\-thesis-config.tex}%
}

\begin{lstlisting}
    % *********************************************
    % 2. Personal data and user ad-hoc commands
    % *********************************************
    \newcommand{\myTitle}{A Classic Thesis Style}
    \newcommand{\mySubtitle}{An Homage to...}
\end{lstlisting}

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

\begin{lstlisting}
\PassOptionsToPackage{
  drafting=true,
  tocaligned=false,
  dottedtoc=false,
  eulerchapternumbers=true,
  floatperchapter=true,
  eulermath=false,
  beramono=true,
  palatino=true,
  style=classicthesis
}{classicthesis}
\end{lstlisting}

Many other customizations in \texttt{classicthesis-config.tex} 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 Bitbucket:
\begin{center}
    \url{https://bitbucket.org/amiede/classicthesis/}
\end{center}
There, you can also post serious bugs and problems you encounter.


\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}
The layout of \texttt{classicthesis.sty} can be easily used without the
framework of this template. A few examples where it was used to typeset
an article, a book or a curriculum vitae can be found in the folder
\texttt{Examples}. The examples have been tested with
\texttt{latex} and \texttt{pdflatex} and are easy to compile. To
encourage you even more, PDFs built from the sources can be found in the
same folder.


\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 \acsfont{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{merchant\-ability} or \emph{fitness for a particular purpose}.
See the
\acsfont{GNU} General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the \acsfont{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, MA 02111-1307, USA.

\paragraph{classicthesis Authors' note:} There have been some discussions about the GPL's implications on using \texttt{classicthesis} for theses etc. Details can be found here:
\begin{center}
  \url{https://bitbucket.org/amiede/classicthesis/issues/123/}
\end{center}

We chose (and currently stick with) the GPL because we would not like to compete with proprietary modified versions of our own work. However, the whole template is free as free beer and free speech. We will not demand the sources for theses, books, CVs, etc. that were created using \texttt{classicthesis}. Also, PDFs produced with \LaTeX\ and \texttt{classicthesis} shall not be considered derivative works of \texttt{classicthesis} in the sense of the GPL.

Postcards are still highly appreciated.





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