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Highlighting the use of Makefiles and its benefits
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fmilthaler committed Jun 26, 2019
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- Examples for fancy figures (using tikz) and Tables (using pgfplotstable), as well as support for very large tables that need to be rotated to fit on a page.
- File structure to separate files of different chapters
- A Bash script automatically includes all your `.bib` files in one file `references/references.tex`, that way you can organise and split your references across several `.bib` files without keeping track of them (without manually updating `\bibliography{...}` in your `.tex` file)
- Besides having a good file structure, this template provides recursive use of Makefiles. The Makefiles ensure a minimum number of compilations to resolve all changes in references/citations, thus the Makefiles offer similar benefits of the tool `latexmk` and they even go beyond. The customised Makefiles make this template stand out from others. They allow for (please find a more detailled description further below):
- Besides having a good file structure, this template provides recursive use of Makefiles. The **Makefiles ensure a minimum number of compilations to resolve all changes** in references/citations, thus the Makefiles offer **similar benefits of the tool `latexmk` and they even go beyond**. **This template stands out from others due to the customised Makefiles**. They allow for (please find a more detailled description further below):
- creating your thesis as a pdf,
- automatically detecting changes in references and automatically running LaTeX on your document again (only if required), until all references (in bibliography or to floating objects) are resolved.
- creating separate image files (e.g. with tikz) stored in subdirectories,
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