This template provides a Typst-powered Quarto template to comply with Harvard's dissertation guidelines.
quarto use template christopherkenny/harvard-dissThis will install the format extension and create an example qmd file that you can use as a starting place for your document.
This template has many custom options to help fully meet all of Harvard's possible dissertation sections. Some options you can set:
title: Your thesis's titlesubtitle: Your thesis's subtitleabstract: The abstract for your thesistoc: Whether to show a Table of Contents (default:true)copyright-text: Copyright information to include after the title page. Leave empty to get the default of "© [year] [Author’s Name]. All rights reserved.". Place custom content to place that instead, for example if you're using a CC license.dissertation-advisor: Name of the dissertation committee chair or co-chairsdegree-subject: Subject of the PhD to include (e.g., "Government")thanks: Acknowledgements to include at the start of the thesisprevious-work: Citations to previous work, with about one sentence of detail and an inline@citekeystyle citation.dedication: Dedication of the thesisepigraph: A quote to include at the start of the thesisepigraph-author: The author of the quotelist-figures: Should a list of figures be provided at the start?list-tables: Should a list of tables be provided at the start?biblio-title: Title of the bibliography (default: "References")
This format supports two types of special sections: the introduction and the appendix. These get special handling as follows:
introduction: This sets the introduction section to be chapter "0".appendix: This sets counters to use "A" numbering, rather than "1" numbering.
To properly format the dissertation, install EB Garamond.
There are other options, listed here, which can be used. To change the font, use the mainfont and fontsize parameters in the Quarto YAML.
This template is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.