LyXTufteThesis

A LyX template for PhD theses at HU Berlin. This is tailored to be compliant with the rules of the Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät.

Some Notes

• In order to compile this document with biblatex instead ot natbib, I tweaked the LyX-layout to not include natbib.sty by standard. If you're using the layout-file, please note that you have to load the document class with the nobib option for it to work.
• The toc in tufte-book is usually rather slim with references to chapters only. Since this is not compliant with the standard toc of dissertations, load the class with the notoc option
• I've added the following additional preamble

\setcounter{secnumdepth}{3}
\setcounter{tocdepth}{3}

\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{afterpage}

\newenvironment{changemargin}[2]{%
\begin{list}{}{%
\setlength{\topsep}{0pt}%
\setlength{\leftmargin}{#1}%
\setlength{\rightmargin}{#2}%
\setlength{\listparindent}{\parindent}%
\setlength{\itemindent}{\parindent}%
\setlength{\parsep}{\parskip}%
}%
\item[]}{\end{list}}


\geometry{bindingoffset=0.9cm}

\usepackage{xpatch}
\AtBeginDocument{\xapptobibmacro{cite}{\setunit{\nametitledelim}\printfield{year}}{}{}}

Some Links

Here's a collection of links I needed to put this together.

HU Berlin templates

• https://edoc-info.hu-berlin.de/de/zentral/dokumentvorlagen

Nomenclature

• http://texdoc.net/texmf-dist/doc/latex/nomencl/nomencl.pdf
• https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/114560/lyx-and-list-of-acronyms

Citations in footnotes

• biblatex in tufte-book: Tufte-LaTeX/tufte-latex#60
• https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/45934/can-i-use-biblatex-with-tufte-classes
• https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/253132/biblatex-footcite-style/258431
• https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/342485/biblatex-footcite-customizing-biblatex-and-bibliography-style
• https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/165481/biblatex-last-name-only-in-footcite
• https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/75837/customizing-biblatex-styles-using-usebibmacro
• https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/390682/author-index-building-and-footfullcite-command/390702#390702
• https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/39206/biblatex-per-entry-changes-to-citation-field
• https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/131844/shortening-margin-citations-in-tufte-class (if you use \AtEveryCiteKey, make sure you clear fields without linebreaks in between because it will change the appearance of the footnote-citation

TOC in tufte-book

• https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/121790/how-to-generate-a-full-width-table-of-contents-tufte-book

Improve your bib-file

• https://github.com/nschloe/betterbib

LyX layout files

• https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/236332/installing-new-lyx-layout-where-are-my-layout-files
• http://blog.anidear.com/2011/03/lyx-convert-latex-cls-file-to-layout-in.html

Figure placement problems

• https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/37726/problem-with-captions-at-top-of-page-for-tufte-latex
• https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/48140/what-shell-commands-are-executed-by-lyx-view-menus
• solution: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/37726/problem-with-captions-at-top-of-page-for-tufte-latex

Protected references are necessary

• https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/191043/error-using-ref-in-captions-with-tufte-and-babel

Margin figures have to be adjusted manually

• https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/tufte-latex/s5ySzb9fF50
• or maybe not? https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/354510/tufte-marginfigure-caption-is-outside-the-page

Figures with Sans-Serif fonts

• ftp://ftp.mpi-sb.mpg.de/pub/tex/mirror/ftp.dante.de/pub/tex/fonts/newtxsf/doc/newtxsf-doc.pdf
• (just use stixsans in matplotlibrc and download Fira Sans from Google Fonts to use in matplotlibrc)