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\begin{center} \Large{How to use this thesis} \end{center}

\section*{Introduction}

This template is based on the excellent Acadia Computer Science template, a copy of which is available from that department.
The modifications introduced are:

\begin{itemize}
  \item Changed citation style to textual citations.
  \item Added commented lines in {\tt header.tex} to produce either print or electronic versions of the thesis.
  \item Fixed the mentions of Department of Computer Science to use the department defined in preliminaries.tex
  \item Added includes for the tikz library.
  \item Added includes for the longtable environment.
  \item Added {\tt allowdisplaybreaks} directive in {\tt header.tex} to allow long formulae to span pages.
\end{itemize}

\section*{Files}

Files in the thesis are:
\begin{description}
  \item[header.tex] Contains all of the package includes, user-defined commands, and has some commented options to generate either print or electronic versions of your thesis.
  \item[thesis.tex] Contains the include statements for each component file. This is the file you should run through pdflatex or your compiler of choice to generate the final thesis.
  \item[preliminaries.tex] Defines a large number of variables and macros. Once you edit this once, you probably don't need to do it again.
\end{description}

\section*{Quickstart}

To get started quickly, do the following:
\begin{enumerate}
  \item Edit the {\tt preliminaries.tex} file, and update it with your defense comittee, title, defense date, abstract, and acknowledgements.
  \item Edit {\tt headers.tex}, and search for CHANGEME. Update those fields with the appropriate information.
  \item Create a new file for each chapter and appendix.
  \item Add includes for chapter and appendix files in {\tt thesis.tex}
  \item Update your bibliography (I recommend using \hyperref[Jabref]{http://jabref.sourceforge.net/}, an excellent open-source reference management tool)
  \item Place plots and figures in the figures/ directory.
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\section*{Notes}
\begin{enumerate}
  \item Use {\tt \textbackslash citet} for an in-text citation, and {\tt \textbackslash citep} for a parenthetical citation.
  \item Use {\tt equation, align, table,} and {\tt figure} environments. See the example code in the thesis.
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