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An unofficial, slightly opinionated Typst template for theses at Chalmers University of Technology (Gothenburg, Sweden).

The covers and front matter are based on Chalmers’s official LaTeX thesis templates and comply with all design requirements for publishing.

Overview

Layout

  • Front cover
  • Title page
  • Imprint
  • English abstract
  • Swedish abstract
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of abbreviations
  • Nomenclature
  • Table of contents
  • List of figures
  • List of tables
  • …
  • Back cover

Features

  • Supports both English and Swedish via set text(lang: "en") and set text(lang: "sv")
  • Supports both bachelor’s and master’s theses
  • Supports University of Gothenburg collaborations
  • Custom styled level 1 headers for chapters and appendices
  • Numeric numbering for chapters and alphabetical for appendices (via #show: appendix)
  • A caption function for specifying separate figure captions in the list of figures and underneath figures.
  • Optional, recto-aligned page formatting for physical printing
  • Uses Arial font for cover pages if available, otherwise falls back to TeX Gyre Heros (included in Typst web app). See docs for how to add custom fonts.
  • Separate numbering for figures and tables
  • Figure and table numbering in appendices are prefixed by appendix numbering letter (e.g., A1)
  • Figure and table numbering reset for each appendix
  • Embeds the title, author, abstract, keywords, and date into the file metadata

Getting Started

Visit the template’s homepage and click “Create project in app” to try it out in the Typst web app.

Alternatively, create a local project via the Typst CLI:

typst init @preview/cthesis:0.1.0

Usage

To initialize the template, invoke the cth-thesis function via a show rule at the top of your document:

#show: cth-thesis.with(title: "Thesis Title")

With configuration options (see next section) being passed as needed. All content following this declaration constitutes the thesis body, and level 1 headings (=) mark chapters, level 2 (==) sections and level 3 (===) subsections.

Finally, optionally invoke appendix as a show rule to mark the subsequent sections as appendices and format them accordingly.

#show: appendix

Level 1 headings now mark appendices instead of chapters.

Configuration

  • title: The main title of the thesis
  • subtitle: An optional subtitle
  • authors: The name(s) of the author(s)
  • program: The academic program
  • department: The department hosting the project
  • abstracts: A dictionary containing the abstract text mapped by language keys:
    • en: English abstract
    • sv: Optional Swedish abstract
  • keywords: The keywords used for metadata and the abstract page
  • supervisors: The supervisor(s) for the thesis
  • examiner: The primary examiner
  • advisor: The corporate or industrial advisor, if applicable
  • co-examiner: The co-examiner who helped grade the thesis
  • cover: A dictionary to add a cover image, accepting:
    • image: Content representing a cover image
    • description: Description of the cover image for the imprint page
  • preface: The body text for the preface section
  • acknowledgments: The body text for the acknowledgments section
  • gu: A boolean value; set to true if the project is a joint collaboration with the University of Gothenburg, which adjusts logos and branding accordingly
  • year: The year of publication; defaults to the current calendar year
  • type: The thesis type, accepting "b", "ba", "bachelor", or "bachelors" for Bachelor’s theses, and "m", "ma", "master", or "masters" for Master’s theses.
  • print: A boolean value; if true, the layout optimizes page breaks for physical two-sided printing by forcing major sections to start on right-hand pages
  • abbreviations: A dictionary mapping abbreviations directly to their full definitions (e.g., ("CTH": "Chalmers Tekniska Högskola")).
  • nomenclature: A nested dictionary of dictionaries used to group terms by category

To do

  • Use new Chalmers logos
  • Abstracts in arbitrary languages

License

MIT. See LICENSE for details.

The included Chalmers and University of Gothenburg SVG logo assets are derived from the current Chalmers/GU Word cover templates. Their use is subject to the universities’ own visual identity and logo rules.