Template for Theses in Quarto

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Author

Alberson Miranda

Published

August 3, 2022

Since I’m starting to write my thesis this semester, why not kill two birds with one stone (sorry, Luisa Mell) and get to know this Quarto everyone is talking about? Well, here is a template for monograph/thesis/dissertation in Quarto1.

To make life easier (or not, time will tell), I parameterized the pre-textual elements — cover, title page, approval sheet, abstract, summary, etc. Here they are:

parameters for pre-textual elements

To use it, first the prerequisites:

  1. Install Quarto;
  2. Install a TeX distribution (since we’re talking about PDF generation) 2;
  3. Since I’m obviously using VSCode, install the Quarto extension.

Now you can fork the project and get started! Just update the parameters in config/preamble.tex and write your work in dissertacao.qmd:

updating parameters and rendering

Footnotes

  1. This template is an adaptation of the standard UEL model.↩︎

  2. For R users, the easiest way is via tinytex::install_tinytex().↩︎