jkjaer / aaulatextemplates

A collection of Aalborg University LaTeX-templates

aauLatexTemplates

On this page, I have collected various Latex-related templates which may be useful to you. The site contains three beamer templates, a report template, a Ph.D.-thesis template, and a poster template which are all described in more detail below. These are primarily intended for use by other people studying or working at Aalborg University (AAU), but everyone is encouraged to use the templates.

Beamer Themes

A lot of the people at AAU use the beamer class to make their presentations which they give at exams, lectures, conferences, and workshops. These people often use one of the many standard beamer themes for their presentations. There is nothing wrong with these themes, and they serve their purpose. However, they are not very unique and do not promote Aalborg University very well. In order to avoid this, I have created three Beamer themes:

• The AAU Simple Beamer Theme
  
  See an example/the documentation.
• The AAU Sidebar Beamer Theme
  
  See an example/the documentation.
• The Aalborg Beamer Theme
  
  See an example/the documentation.

If you like these, but are not affiliated with Aalborg University, you are very welcome to modify them. The easiest theme to modify is the Aalborg theme.

The AAU Report Template

Many students use LaTeX for typesetting their reports. Although LaTeX is very powerful and able to create beautiful documents, the learning curve for LaTeX novices may be quite steep. Especially the management of the layout may be hard.

This report template is an attempt to give these LaTeX novices a gentle start. The template takes care of loading the most common packages in the preamble, creating a front page, an English and a Danish AAU title page, a preface with signatures, and a simple folder structure for organising the tex-files.

See an example/the documentation.

The AAU Ph.D. Thesis Template

Most Ph.D.-students at Aalborg University write their thesis as a collection of papers. That is, the thesis consists of two parts. The first part contains an introduction to the problem, the state-of-the-art and the contributions made by the Ph.D.-student and his/her co-authors. The second part contains the relevant paper published during the Ph.D.

This template can be used for writing such a thesis. The template takes care of loading the most common packages in the preamble, creating a front page, an English and a Danish abstract, a preface, the two parts, and a simple folder structure for organising the tex-files.

See an example/the documentation.

The AAU Poster Theme

When researchers and students from Aalborg University (AAU) attend conferences around the world, they often use a poster for presenting their newest research results. To the best of my knowledge no AAU-branded poster theme is available to these researchers and students so they have to create their own or modify an existing theme.

In order to avoid this, I have therefore created an AAU poster theme. The theme, which I have named aauposter, is simple, clean and unique. It is a particular configuration of the baposter class, and you have to download the baposter.cls file to use the AAU poster theme.

See an example/the documentation.

aaulatextemplates's Issues

PhD collection thesis - \input{} instead of \include{} to include papers

For the aauPhdCollectionThesis template I receive an error on \includepaper{} when \include{} is used in macros.tex.

I can't write on file `papers/paperA/paperA.aux'.

In macros.texchanging \include{} to \input{} fixes the error

aauLatexTemplates/aauPhdCollectionThesis/setup/macros.tex

Line 66 in bd8638e

\include{#1}

Explanation why to use \input{} instead of \include{}
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/2209/how-can-i-include-the-file-somedir-file-tex-in-the-file-somedir-subdir-another/2214#2214

aausidebar AAU logo goes above slide

When using the aausidebar for beamer, the logo will go above the slide, which for me does not seem like it should.

Could this be changed?

Standalone package - texmf

Would it be possible, to convert the individual files from the beamer templates, into a package that can be used directly inside the ~/texmf folder.
I know there has previously been a way, and I'm currently using it, so I don't have to duplicate the files, but rather just "install" the .sty files once.

But there is one problem, the AAUgraphics still needs to be inside the same folder, as the beamer .tex file.
Anyway that those could be included inside ~/texmf ?

This would open up for the possibility of using pandoc, and creating AAU templates.

Using natbib in aauPhdCollectionThesis

Hi,

First of all. Thanks for sharing this template! I just want to share my five cents. I spent quite some time figuring out why I couldn't make it work with natbib. I added \usepackage{natbib} in preamble.tex and removed \usepackage{cite}. Then, in macros.tex i changed \bibliographystyle{IEEEtran} to \bibliographystyle{apalike}. It gave me a bunch of troubles until I realized, that the introduction file contains the hardcoded bibliographystyle: {\small\bibliographystyle{IEEEtranS}\bibliography{bib/mybib}}. In the paper files the new command \defaultbib is used.

Maybe {\small\bibliographystyle{IEEEtranS}\bibliography{bib/mybib}} should have a new command located in macros.tex as well.

/Mads

Correct AAU Blue colors

I know one of my mates from my study does some work every semester, fixing up the colors so they match the AAU standards, maybe he would look at it.

I will try to ping him to this.

I think this includes ...

• Code environments
• Figure text
• Table headers/borders (?)

But I am hoping he could clarify it.

install.sh: script does not work on OSX

Currently the installation script does not work on OSX, as it does not copy the images correctly.

The first problem is that OSX copies all the files inside the folder using cp -R /tmp/files/ /dst/, where I would expect it to copy the folder but it copies the files INSIDE...

Secondly, it does not respect the generic images folder, as it does not look inside the textmf folder...
So we either need to find the path where OSX looks for images, or print a statement saying that it is unable to install images.