Thesis notation latex

Email mori@northwestern.edu Address Mechanical Engineering Department Northwestern University 2145 Sheridan Road Evanston IL 60208 USA Abstract This article provides useful tools to write a thesis with L A TEX. It analyzes the typical problems that arise while writing a thesis with LaTeX and suggests improved solutions by handling easy packages.

Your thesis could be the longest and most complicated document you'll ever write, which is why it's such a good idea to use LaTeX instead of a common word processor. LaTeX makes tasks that are difficult and awkward in word processors, far simpler. When writing something like a thesis its worth splitting up the document into multiple.tex files.

Creating a nomenclature is often experienced to be difficult, since you need an extra 'tool' called makeindex when you compile the LaTeX document. Fortunately, the process is very well described on this community: have a look here.

In the frontmatter, pages are numbered with lower case Roman numbers (i, ii, iii, etc.) and the chapters are not numbered (as if the asterisk version \chapter*{} was used). In the mainmatter, pages are numbered with Arabic numbers (the numbers start from 1) and the chapters are numbered with Arabic numbers as well.