For the record: here you can see a single (still unfinished) page of my PhD thesis prepared in LaTeX. I used PhD thesis style prepared by Jamie Stevens and wrote the whole thing using Kile editor. An image on the margin can be inserted with command:
\marginpar{
\centering{
\includegraphics[width=3cm]{image.pdf}
}
Caption text
}
Yes, LaTeX rules!
Nice! I like the image in the margin. I’m not allowed anything creative like that - stupid university rules about layout. And I never got around to learning LaTeX. Some day, but not for my thesis. It was easier to use Word with existing templates to make sure I got all the layout requirements.
Good choice! I wrote mine in LaTeX too (back in 1995), it was unusual in the chemstry department, but in the Math and Computer Science departments it is pretty much the standard.
ZZ
neat!
I tried to do that for mine but in the end i had to use word as that’s the accepted e-format for my dept and my supp din’t quite understand why i dun wanna use word’s view edits functions….
sigh…
I am fortunate to have no requirements concerning layout of PhD thesis. Zsolt, I agree that in Math/CS deps it’s a standard, but on Biology when I did my masters degree I guess I was the only one with work in LaTeX.
BTW, my favourite layout has the PhD thesis of Ben Fry - but that’s completely another field (he wrote about visualization).