Théo Winterhalter's PhD thesis

Have a look at the latest release to get the PDF version (there is no point in building the PDF yourself). You can also watch the video of the defence.

Prerequisites

You need the Fira Sans and Fira Mono fonts to build the thesis. You also need Symbola because I use it as a fallback for some special unicode characters. I also now use DejaVu Sans and DejaVu Sans Mono as fallback fonts. I will use Fira Math as fallback as well.

Compilation

I build using xelatex with the following series of commands

xelatex --shell-escape main
makeindex main.nlo -s nomencl.ist -o main.nls # Compile nomenclature
makeindex main # Compile index
biber main # Compile bibliography
makeglossaries main # Compile glossary
xelatex --shell-escape main
xelatex --shell-escape main
xelatex --shell-escape main

Once its done, just doing

xelatex --shell-escape main

is often enough.

Configure LaTeX Workshop for VSCode

If you want to build using VSCode like me, you can install the LaTeX Workshop plugin (the one suggested by VSCode) and add some recipes in the settings.json.

"latex-workshop.latex.recipes":[
    {
        "name": "latexmk 🔃",
        "tools": [
            "latexmk"
        ]
    },
    {
        "name": "latexmk (latexmkrc)",
        "tools": [
            "latexmk_rconly"
        ]
    },
    {
        "name": "latexmk (lualatex)",
        "tools": [
            "lualatexmk"
        ]
    },
    {
        "name": "pdflatex ➞ bibtex ➞ pdflatex × 2",
        "tools": [
            "pdflatex",
            "bibtex",
            "pdflatex",
            "pdflatex"
        ]
    },
    {
        "name": "Compile Rnw files",
        "tools": [
            "rnw2pdf"
        ]
    },
    {
        "name": "kaobook",
        "tools": [
            "xelatex (shell escape)",
            "make nomenclature",
            "makeindex",
            "biber",
            "makeglossaries",
            "xelatex (shell escape)",
            "xelatex (shell escape)",
            "xelatex (shell escape)"
        ]
    }
],
"latex-workshop.latex.tools": [
    {
        "name": "latexmk",
        "command": "latexmk",
        "args": [
            "-synctex=1",
            "-interaction=nonstopmode",
            "-file-line-error",
            "-pdf",
            "-outdir=%OUTDIR%",
            "%DOC%"
        ],
        "env": {}
    },
    {
        "name": "lualatexmk",
        "command": "latexmk",
        "args": [
            "-synctex=1",
            "-interaction=nonstopmode",
            "-file-line-error",
            "-lualatex",
            "-outdir=%OUTDIR%",
            "%DOC%"
        ],
        "env": {}
    },
    {
        "name": "latexmk_rconly",
        "command": "latexmk",
        "args": [
            "%DOC%"
        ],
        "env": {}
    },
    {
        "name": "pdflatex",
        "command": "pdflatex",
        "args": [
            "-synctex=1",
            "-interaction=nonstopmode",
            "-file-line-error",
            "%DOC%"
        ],
        "env": {}
    },
    {
        "name": "bibtex",
        "command": "bibtex",
        "args": [
            "%DOCFILE%"
        ],
        "env": {}
    },
    {
        "name": "rnw2pdf",
        "command": "Rscript",
        "args": [
            "-e",
            "knitr::knit2pdf('%DOCFILE%')"
        ],
        "env": {}
    },
    {
        "name": "xelatex",
        "command": "xelatex",
        "args": [
            "-synctex=1",
            "-interaction=nonstopmode",
            "-file-line-error",
            "%DOC%"
        ]
    },
    {
        "name": "xelatex (shell escape)",
        "command": "xelatex",
        "args": [
            "--shell-escape",
            "-synctex=1",
            "-interaction=nonstopmode",
            "-file-line-error",
            "%DOC%"
        ]
    },
    {
        "name": "biber",
        "command": "biber",
        "args": [
            "%DOCFILE%"
        ],
        "env": {}
    },
    {
        "name": "make nomenclature",
        "command": "makeindex",
        "args": [
            "%DOCFILE%.nlo",
            "-s",
            "nomencl.ist",
            "-o",
            "%DOCFILE%.nls"
        ]
    },
    {
        "name": "makeindex",
        "command": "makeindex",
        "args": [
            "%DOCFILE%"
        ]
    },
    {
        "name": "makeglossaries",
        "command": "makeglossaries",
        "args": [
            "%DOCFILE%"
        ]
    }
]