• FEIstyle
  • Changelog
• Usage
• Compile chain
  • Manual compiling
  • Using latexmk
  • Using Makefile (uses latexmk)
  • Sublime-text 3 project file
• Hints and trics
  • Counting words, lines and characters
  • Installation on macOS
    • Updating TeX packages
• TODO
• Contribution

FEIstyle

Upgraded FEIStyle (original):

• support for citation standard ISO-690 required by STU FEI, using biber
• support for glossaries package
• removed FEIstyle.bst (not needed)
• added Makefile
• improved contents of electronic medium example, added 2 commands to make it easy to write attachmentA.tex like files

Note: FEIstyle supports only UTF-8 encoding.

Changelog

Change-log is located here.

Note: Minor changes are not noted in change-log.

Usage

• Download all files from repository, extract to desired folder and enjoy.

Compile chain

In following sub-chapters thesis is your main thesis.tex (in root folder).

Manual compiling

Following chain should output thesis.pdf

$ pdflatex thesis
$ biber thesis
$ makeglossaries thesis
$ pdflatex thesis
$ pdflatex thesis #not a typo!

Using latexmk

Note: see Hints and Trics section to get information on how to install letexmk

Following command runs necessary compile chain.

$ latexmk -pdf -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode -silent thesis

Using Makefile (uses latexmk)

Note: make sure to change file-name in Makefile on line #2

Build in .build folder

$ make

Clean .build folder and delete PDF file in parent folder

$ make clean

Combine two commands above

$ make refresh

Read more on how to be even more efficient with latexmk && make.

Sublime-text 3 project file

Repository consists of ST3 project file which includes building your PDF using SUPER+b.

Note: to enable building with short-cut tools->Build System->FEI-LaTeX

You can also install LaTeXTools to make build / debug process even easier. File fei.sublime-project comes with settings set to build your documentation - just edit TEXroot setting.

Hints and trics

search terms:

• latexmk, CTAN, latex, tex, make, Makefile

humans whom you can ask:

• http://tex.stackexchange.com/

editors and IDEs:

• http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/339/latex-editors-ides

Afraid of losing your work? Use Git.

Counting words, lines and characters

There is a variety of ways to count words and lines (characters are not so important) of compiled PDF file, and none is precise so we list a few and you can compare results yourself.

Using ps2ascii

$ ps2ascii thesis.pdf |  wc -l -w -c

Using pdftotext

pdftotext thesis.pdf - | wc -l -w -c

Note: CZRP does word counting differently, for example my thesis using ps2ascii method outputs 4288, 21031, 145198; pdftotext method outputs 7051, 21377, 148535; CZRP word count is 14039 and character count 138687.

Counting words from source file (not recommended, since template does a lot of /includeing and /inputting).

texcount -inc thesis.tex

Installation on macOS

• install MacTex distribution using homebrew (~2GB / 6GB installed)

  $ brew cask install mactex
  

• you can download MacTex manually from tug.org.

Note: MacTex installs also BibDesk which can be used to maintain your bibliography in a very nice way.

Updating TeX packages

If you installed MacTex distribution you also have application called TeX Live Utility (it is a front-end for pkmgr program) which is used to upgrade all TeX related packages, open it from time to time and do a full update.

TODO

• transform tutorial.pdf to wiki page
• update read-me to include usage for Windows OS users

Contribution

Any contributions are welcome!