If the creator is reading this: Your web pages would be immediately improved 100% by adding a link to a PDF file generated using this style, showing most of what goes into a typical thesis. (You could use your own thesis for which it was developed, or just a pile of lorem ipsum.)<p>I see that you have links to JPEGs of sample pages, but this would be much better. [EDITED to add: I am not suggesting that you remove the JPEGs. They don't do any harm.]
Many institutions, including mine, require a very specific style. Many even provide templates. Irritatingly, mine only provided a Word template, so I had to spend a day or two creating a LaTeX style. (Procrastination bonus: I was "working on my thesis" without actually working on my thesis). The mere fact that the provided style uses color would disqualify it as a thesis in many institutions. Also, it's somewhat distasteful that the linked site uses significantly more words on how I can donate for this derivative work than it spends on convincing me to use it.
I thought the default style(s) were the results of years of micro tweaking and deep studies of the impact of character positioning and flows by Knuth and that only the default \LaTeX{} style could give that 2% head start or that A instead of a B++ for any essay.<p>Now we add blue titles ? And sans serif font ?<p>Sarcasm apart, it looks good. Some links are 404 on the page though (classic thesis, etc.).
In many universities the problem is that you need to produce a thesis according to the university specifications. A generic thesis document may help with this, but will unfortunately never solve the complete problem. Fortunately, however, most universities also have a local LaTeX guru, or you can just copy the style used by previous students.
<a href="http://cleanthesis.der-ric.de/img/ct_toc.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://cleanthesis.der-ric.de/img/ct_toc.jpg</a><p>Using 2 different sans-serif fonts in the same document (here: Helvetica and the TeX humanist) is usually frowned upon by typographers. One reason is that differences in size, style, color, etc. should always be noticable. Two sans-serif fonts will always look superficially similar; the eye has to get used to different letter forms when it expects the font to stay the same.<p>Beyond that, I think the template is <i>really</i> beautiful. Thanks for sharing!
For mine I used KOMA-Script Package (scrbook) <a href="http://www.dickimaw-books.com/latex/thesis/thesis-screen.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.dickimaw-books.com/latex/thesis/thesis-screen.pdf</a> (and for official documentation: <a href="http://www.ctex.org/documents/packages/nonstd/koma-script.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.ctex.org/documents/packages/nonstd/koma-script.pd...</a>).
LaTeX rule them all when it's time to write a thesis. This template is nice. The code is simple so a beginner can start to play with at any moment. Keep working hard I love what you did.
Anyone got a similar resource for self publishing ebooks? I had some stuff hacked together with org-mode and some other bits a while ago, but would like to know of anything better.