Lyx Thesis Template

Intro

This is a collection LaTeX/BiBTeX styles that are meant to be used with Lyx to compose a thesis. As Lyx uses LaTeX, your thesis will look really good!

See Sample PDF for an example of the Thesis (see credits for real submitted thesis from previous authors).

Installation

Installing on Mac OS X or Linux

Simply download the zip file, extract it and run the script as described below. It will also ensure you have the correct tex distribution installed, if not it will advise to set it in CSThesis.conf

• Make the install script executable: chmod +x install.sh
• Run the script as superuser: sudo ./install.sh
• Open Lyx and click on Tools->Reconfigure and restart

What the Script does:

1. Downloads and installs Tex distribution
2. Copies the included template files to appropriate location
3. Refreshes the Tex Cache

Installing on Windows

Unfortunately a script is not available. If you know how to script this using batch files, please send a pull request! For now, the manual steps must be followed:

• Download and Install MikTex
• Copy udthesis.sty and tcd-fancyhdr.sty to C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.5\tex\latex\base
• Copy udthesis.layout to C:\Documents and Settings\<Username>\Application Data\lyx1.4.x\layouts
• run MiKTex->Settings, Refresh FNDB, update format
• open lyx and click on tool->reconfigure
• restart lyx
• Copy the apa-good.bst style to the directory C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\bibtex\bst\apa-good
• In Lyx run Tools > TeX Information > Rescan and make sure apa-good appears on the list.

Explanation of Project Files

LyX Files (in Thesis folder):

• Thesis.lyx - the main file that includes the chapters, bibliography etc (Generate the PDF from this). First you should update your name, college etc. Do this in Lyx: Document > Settings > LaTeX Preamble
• acknowledgements.lyx - acknowledgements
• appendix*.lyx - all the appendices
• chapter*.lyx - all the chapters
• thesis.bib - all the bibliography references (open this with a BibTeX editor [I recommend Bibdesk ])
• related_publications.lyx - related publications
• images/uni_logo.png - the logo of your university (also can put all other images in this folder)

Credits

• Neil Grogan (Technological University Dublin and University College Dublin)
• Eamonn Linehan (National University of Ireland, Maynooth) - Thesis
• Jesus Bisbal (University of Dublin, Trinity College) - Thesis
• Dinesh Das (University of Texas, Austin) - Thesis
• Piet van Oostrum (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands)
• Lyx Developers

Copyright

Copyright © 1994-2013 of the respective authors as detailed in the files. Free usage and modification is permitted as long as copyright notice is kept.