v0.10.2

Beta pre-release of the RPI Thesis Toolkit, an unofficial, community-made LaTeX starter and guide for RPI master's theses and doctoral dissertations.

Guide: https://diyanko.github.io/rpi-thesis-toolkit/

Downloads: rpi-thesis-starter-v0.10.2.zip (thesis files, offline guide, cheat sheet), rpi-thesis-overleaf-v0.10.2.zip (thesis files only, for Overleaf), and rpi-thesis.cls (the class alone, to update an existing thesis). The RPI seal is a separate download from RPI.

Published as the pre-release v0.10.2.

Changes your PDF? No.

• Starter: metadata.tex is shorter, with each choice and an example
  beside its setting.
• Get just the class: a clear Download rpi-thesis.cls button and
  three short steps.
• Website: opening Search no longer shifts the page; Back to top and the
  code blocks' Copy share one small button style with icons; every section
  heading has a link that copies its address; the LaTeX or Preview switch
  matches the other buttons; the current page in the footer is marked
  more clearly; on tablets and small laptops the header and home page use
  the space better.
• Tools: paste boxes show an example of what goes in them instead of
  repeating their label; Check your PDF explains its results in one table.
• Requirements map: easier to read, with when it was last checked (as
  "2 weeks ago"), what you still check yourself, and how this class relates
  to RPI's official LaTeX template.
• Cheat sheet: more room above the footer, and boxes drawn by hand like
  the website's.
• Wording: "unofficial, community-made" everywhere, without separate
  "not affiliated" lines.

v0.10.1

Beta pre-release of the RPI Thesis Toolkit, an unofficial, community-made LaTeX starter and guide for RPI master's theses and doctoral dissertations. Not affiliated with or endorsed by RPI or its Office of Graduate Education.

Guide: https://diyanko.github.io/rpi-thesis-toolkit/

Downloads: rpi-thesis-starter-v0.10.1.zip (thesis files, offline guide, cheat sheet), rpi-thesis-overleaf-v0.10.1.zip (thesis files only, for Overleaf), and rpi-thesis.cls (the class alone, to update an existing thesis). The RPI seal is a separate download from RPI.

Published as the pre-release v0.10.1.

Changes your PDF? No.

• Convert to LaTeX: the tool once called "Bring your work in" has a
  clearer name, so it no longer sounds like the guide page "Bring your
  draft". Its old address forwards to the new one.
• Website: the seal in the Settings builder's title page sketch stays a
  circle; Search and the appearance button use the same hand-drawn buttons
  and icons as the rest of the site.
• Guide: the starter ZIP is the one download (GitHub's whole-repository
  ZIP and the template route are gone), and Overleaf uploads use the smaller
  Overleaf ZIP.
• Cheat sheet: links you can click in the PDF, and a footer with its
  version, the website, and OGE's submission page.
• Website footer: says when the formatting was last checked against
  OGE's manual, apart from when the toolkit was released, as "5 days ago"
  (the full date without JavaScript).

v0.10.0

Beta pre-release of the RPI Thesis Toolkit, an unofficial, community-made LaTeX starter and guide for RPI master's theses and doctoral dissertations. Not affiliated with or endorsed by RPI or its Office of Graduate Education.

Guide: https://diyanko.github.io/rpi-thesis-toolkit/

Downloads: rpi-thesis-starter-v0.10.0.zip (thesis files, offline guide, cheat sheet), rpi-thesis-overleaf-v0.10.0.zip (thesis files only, for Overleaf), and rpi-thesis.cls (the class alone, to update an existing thesis). The RPI seal is a separate download from RPI.

Published as the pre-release v0.10.0.

Changes your PDF? No.

• Settings builder: a title page sketch follows the form as you type
  (switch it off if you prefer), with your title, name, degree, committee,
  department, and date in the class's layout. Start from the metadata.tex
  you have, read in your browser, and download a finished metadata.tex.
  The degree menu shows the name the title page prints, the month menu asks
  you to choose, and the messages name the form's own fields.
• Explain my error: reads a whole log, pasted or chosen as a .log
  file: after the first error it lists, folded away, the other errors,
  missing citations and references, lines too wide, missing characters, and
  rerun notes, and it marks where LaTeX stopped. It knows the class's own
  messages (a missing setting or chair, an unknown setting, an older
  rpi-thesis.cls, the seal placeholder) and names the command behind
  "Undefined control sequence".
• Check your references: each point names its line and selects it in the
  box; safe fixes show the change, apply one or all, and download the
  corrected file; a "By entry" view; an unclosed entry no longer hides the
  ones after it.
• Bring your work in: a Preview beside the LaTeX, a Show where button on
  each note, and captions for Markdown tables.
• Check your PDF: results open with a count per result and the points to
  look at first; a point that names pages can show each page with the
  margins, page-number lines, and measured text drawn on it; page-number and
  margin results say which pages were measured; sources are named in full.
• Guide: the tools are named where they help: the Settings builder when
  you put your name on the title page, Explain my error when a compile fails,
  Bring your work in for drafts and spreadsheet tables, Check your references
  for access dates. A short recipe shows how to use the starter as a model for
  a proposal or qualifying exam, and "update the formatting safely" points to
  Check your PDF to see your version.
• One set of fixes for every error message: Fixing problems, Explain my
  error, and the optional build helper now give the same advice from one
  list. Explain my error and the build helper also recognize the starter's
  own messages (such as a missing setting, an unknown degree or month, or a
  missing seal), and each fix says what to do on your computer and on
  Overleaf where they differ.
• Navigation: Previous and Next stay within the core path or Go further;
  each tool page links back to the guide page that uses it, and its input
  sits nearer the top.
• Get started and Submitting: a warmer, shorter start; the starter
  download is a button; other editors fold away; the Submitting notice is
  shorter.
• Contribute: three ways to help, each with one button, the no-account
  form first.
• Change log: on the website, each version answers "Changes your PDF?"
  in a box you can spot at a glance, with links to download that version and
  to its code changes; the next version's changes are listed first.
• Website: a warmer light palette and a deeper dark one, with button
  outlines that stay visible; a simpler header (Get started, Guide and Tools
  menus, How do I...?); buttons share one set of hand-drawn icons; long
  reference pages, such as this change log, list their sections beside the text; the text, sidebar, and
  "On this page" sit together with even margins on wide screens; tool pages
  no longer flash "JavaScript is off" while loading; the offline guide says
  the Settings builder runs on the website; short names in code no longer
  break at a hyphen on phones.
• Drawings: LaTeX in the guide's drawings is colored like LaTeX on the
  website, in light and dark: commands blue, braces bold terra, options plum,
  math green, comments gray and italic. "One chapter at a time" is redrawn in
  the same hand-drawn style as the others, and code in three drawings is
  larger so it stays readable on tablets.
• More drawings: the six reasons in "Why LaTeX for a thesis" show their
  drawings in the cards, and Writing basics has two new ones: how to add a
  chapter, and how \label and \ref fill in a figure's number.
  How it works and Going further also show which file changes which part
  of the PDF.

v0.9.0

Beta pre-release of the RPI Thesis Toolkit, an unofficial, community-made LaTeX starter and guide for RPI master's theses and doctoral dissertations. Not affiliated with or endorsed by RPI or its Office of Graduate Education.

Guide: https://diyanko.github.io/rpi-thesis-toolkit/

Downloads: rpi-thesis-starter-v0.9.0.zip (thesis files, offline guide, cheat sheet), rpi-thesis-overleaf-v0.9.0.zip (thesis files only, for Overleaf), and rpi-thesis.cls (the class alone, to update an existing thesis). The RPI seal is a separate download from RPI.

Published as the pre-release v0.9.0.

Changes your PDF? No.

Version: minor

• Five tools, one design: every tool page has the same layout, a clear
  "Nothing is uploaded" line, and short results; the home page lists them all.
  On a laptop or desktop the tool pages use the full width, LaTeX in the
  guide and in tool output is colored for easier reading, and form fields,
  checkboxes, and yes/no switches match the site's hand-drawn style.

• Settings builder: fill in a form and copy a checked \thesissetup block
  for metadata.tex; it rejects the same values the class rejects.

• Bring your work in: a new tool in the guide's Tools group. Paste text
  from Word, Google Docs, or Markdown, or a table from Excel or Sheets, and
  get LaTeX ready for a chapter: headings, emphasis, lists, links, special
  characters, and tables with a caption. It runs in your browser; nothing is
  uploaded.

• Check your references: paste or drop references.bib; it reads your
  citation style and lists missing fields, access dates, duplicate keys, name
  and capitalization problems, each with the fix.

• Explain my error: paste an error or a whole log from your editor or
  Overleaf; it finds the first real error, says what it means, and shows the
  fix and the guide section. Same knowledge as the build helper.

v0.8.1

Beta pre-release of the RPI Thesis Toolkit, an unofficial, community-made LaTeX starter and guide for RPI master's theses and doctoral dissertations. Not affiliated with or endorsed by RPI or its Office of Graduate Education.

Guide: https://diyanko.github.io/rpi-thesis-toolkit/

Downloads: rpi-thesis-starter-v0.8.1.zip (thesis files, offline guide, cheat sheet), rpi-thesis-overleaf-v0.8.1.zip (thesis files only, for Overleaf), and rpi-thesis.cls (the class alone, to update an existing thesis). The RPI seal is a separate download from RPI.

Published as the pre-release v0.8.1.

Changes your PDF? No.

• A shorter home page: one line about what the toolkit does, buttons to
  download the starter or open it in Overleaf right under it, one drawing of
  what you get, and a "What's here" overview of every part of the toolkit.
• A cleaner footer on every page, grouped by Guide, Tools, Project, and
  Help; "Suggest a change" needs no account.
• Share this guide copies the link (or opens your phone's share sheet).
• Refined colors in light and dark; numbers in the text show a plain 0.
• Get started suggests an editor on your computer that compiles when you
  save (VS Code with LaTeX Workshop as the worked example; other editors with a
  LaTeX extension work too), with Overleaf as the no-install alternative.
  Terminal commands moved to Going further; no step needs them.
• The VS Code settings in the download build on save, open the PDF beside your
  text, and keep the Problems list to text that runs into the margin.

v0.8.0

Beta pre-release of the RPI Thesis Toolkit, an unofficial, community-made LaTeX starter and guide for RPI master's theses and doctoral dissertations. Not affiliated with or endorsed by RPI or its Office of Graduate Education.

Guide: https://diyanko.github.io/rpi-thesis-toolkit/

Downloads: rpi-thesis-starter-v0.8.0.zip (thesis files, offline guide, cheat sheet), rpi-thesis-overleaf-v0.8.0.zip (thesis files only, for Overleaf), and rpi-thesis.cls (the class alone, to update an existing thesis). The RPI seal is a separate download from RPI.

Published as the pre-release v0.8.0.

Changes your PDF? Yes, in two places: the space around displayed
equations, and the contents if your sections go four levels deep. Recompile
and look at pages with displayed equations and at the contents.

• Displayed equations no longer get double space around them: about
  20 pt above instead of 33, as RPI's template sets it.
• Deep section numbers such as 12.10.10.10 no longer touch their titles
  in the contents.
• Clearer errors: a misspelled setting names the setting and
  metadata.tex; a wrong degree, month, or chair value echoes what you wrote
  and notes that values are case-sensitive; a seal file name with _ no longer
  stops the compile.
• The build helper shows the first real error and its line, and explains
  missing figures and undefined citations or references.
• Website:
  • the appearance menu works in Safari and on iPhone;
  • Check your PDF falls back to its written checklist on older browsers;
  • controls have clearer borders in light mode;
  • guide pages print more cleanly.

v0.7.1

Beta pre-release of the RPI Thesis Toolkit, an unofficial, community-made LaTeX starter and guide for RPI master's theses and doctoral dissertations. Not affiliated with or endorsed by RPI or its Office of Graduate Education.

Guide: https://diyanko.github.io/rpi-thesis-toolkit/

Downloads: rpi-thesis-starter-v0.7.1.zip (thesis files, offline guide, cheat sheet), rpi-thesis-overleaf-v0.7.1.zip (thesis files only, for Overleaf), and rpi-thesis.cls (the class alone, to update an existing thesis). The RPI seal is a separate download from RPI.

Published as the pre-release v0.7.1.

Changes your PDF? No.

• Check your PDF works without contacting any other site, says "Could
  not tell" instead of passing anything it could not measure, adds checks for
  page size, headings missing from the contents, embedded fonts, blank pages,
  and file size, and can print its result. In the offline guide it points to
  the website, because browsers block it on local files.
• One wording per rule: guide pages quote and cite OGE rules from the
  requirements map, so a rule and its manual page are written once.
• Pictures: the timeline shows Check your PDF and the reviewer
  checklist, diagrams use \parencite and "compile" throughout, sample-PDF
  close-ups have captions, and an unused diagram is gone.
• Sidebar and layout: optional pages have their own marker in the same
  column as the numbers; list numbers, focus rings, footer links, and search
  highlights are tidier.
• Starter comments name guide pages instead of files the download does
  not include; the appendix example uses \parencite.
• Build helper: a missing chapter whose name has accents or non-Latin
  letters is reported with its full name; local classes and packages in
  subfolders, and the files they load, are followed; missing characters and a
  missing STIX Two Math font are named.
• Check your PDF reads chapter headings with a "CHAPTER 1" line above the
  title, headings that wrap differently in the contents, contents pages that
  start mid-entry, superscripts in headings, and PDFs with an unusual page
  unit. Small differences from the manual's numbers (page-number distance,
  slight margin overruns, a heading a little low) get their own result,
  "Differs from the manual's wording", separate from "Look at this". A check
  can be cancelled, and choosing another PDF replaces the old result.

v0.7.0

Beta pre-release of the RPI Thesis Toolkit, an unofficial, community-made LaTeX starter and guide for RPI master's theses and doctoral dissertations. Not affiliated with or endorsed by RPI or its Office of Graduate Education.

Guide: https://diyanko.github.io/rpi-thesis-toolkit/

Downloads: rpi-thesis-starter-v0.7.0.zip (thesis files, offline guide, cheat sheet), rpi-thesis-overleaf-v0.7.0.zip (thesis files only, for Overleaf), and rpi-thesis.cls (the class alone, to update an existing thesis). The RPI seal is a separate download from RPI.

Published as the pre-release v0.7.0.

Changes your PDF? Only if you compile with LuaLaTeX or XeLaTeX and use
one of the 24 AMS symbols listed below: they printed as blank space before
and now appear. Recompile and check the pages that use them. pdfLaTeX does
not change.

• AMS symbols no longer print blank on LuaLaTeX and XeLaTeX. The math
  font lacks \bigstar, \Finv, \Game, \digamma, \backepsilon,
  \pitchfork, \Join, \doublebarwedge, \blacktriangle,
  \vartriangle, \blacktriangledown, \triangledown, \diagup,
  \diagdown, \precneqq, \succneqq, \precapprox, \succapprox,
  \precnapprox, \succnapprox, \subseteqq, \supseteqq,
  \subsetneqq, and \supsetneqq. The class now takes just these from
  STIX Two Math, a Times-style math font included in TeX Live and Overleaf.
• Check your PDF: a new optional guide page,
  Check your PDF, reads your PDF in your browser (it is
  never uploaded) and reports paper size, page numbering and its position,
  level-1 heading position, side margins, contents entries, and the toolkit
  version, each with the manual section it comes from. It is not an OGE
  review.
• Reviewer checklist: a two-page checklist
  for advisors, committee members, and OGE reviewers: what the class sets,
  what still needs a look, and where students record exceptions. Guide pages
  with long tables now print without a blank half page.
• Search understands more words (acronyms, landscape, glossary, Mendeley)
  and pasted LaTeX warnings, highlights what matched, and opens with /.
• AI prompts to copy for setting up, fixing an error, converting to
  LaTeX, and suggesting a change: Going further.

v0.6.0

Beta pre-release of the RPI Thesis Toolkit, an unofficial, community-made LaTeX starter and guide for RPI master's theses and doctoral dissertations. Not affiliated with or endorsed by RPI or its Office of Graduate Education.

Guide: https://diyanko.github.io/rpi-thesis-toolkit/

Downloads: rpi-thesis-starter-v0.6.0.zip (thesis files, offline guide, cheat sheet), rpi-thesis-overleaf-v0.6.0.zip (thesis files only, for Overleaf), and rpi-thesis.cls (the class alone, to update an existing thesis). The RPI seal is a separate download from RPI.

Published as the pre-release v0.6.0.

Changes your PDF? Only if you use Chicago (biblatex-chicago): the
reference list now has one blank line between entries instead of about half
a line, and long web addresses break like in the other styles. Recompile and
compare your reference pages. Other styles do not change.

• Chicago reference lists get the right spacing. The class now applies
  its reference-list spacing after biblatex-chicago has set its own. A
  spacing line of your own below the biblatex line still wins.
• Correction to 0.4.0: it said "Changes your PDF? No". That held if you
  kept your older preamble.tex, but with Chicago and a preamble.tex from
  0.4.0 or later, the reference list had about half a blank line between
  entries, not the one blank line OGE asks for. This version fixes it.
• Use just the class recipe numbers references in the order you cite
  them, like the starter; it listed them alphabetically before.
• \yen works with pdfLaTeX, like every other amssymb symbol.
• LICENSE.md in both downloads linked a credits file the download does not
  include; such links now point to the project's online copy.

v0.5.0

Beta pre-release of the RPI Thesis Toolkit, an unofficial, community-made LaTeX starter and guide for RPI master's theses and doctoral dissertations. Not affiliated with or endorsed by RPI or its Office of Graduate Education.

Guide: https://diyanko.github.io/rpi-thesis-toolkit/

Downloads: rpi-thesis-starter-v0.5.0.zip (thesis files, offline guide, cheat sheet), rpi-thesis-overleaf-v0.5.0.zip (thesis files only, for Overleaf), and rpi-thesis.cls (the class alone, to update an existing thesis). The RPI seal is a separate download from RPI.

Published as the pre-release v0.5.0.

Changes your PDF? No.

• A shorter guide: eight pages instead of eleven. "Why LaTeX" is now part
  of How it works; the workflows and advanced pages
  are one page, Going further. Old guide addresses
  no longer work.
• Before 1.0, anything may move. Updating is still usually just the class
  file, but a version may rename a setting or need another file changed; this
  log says so when it does. The one-file promise starts at 1.0.