Any news on this? Feb 4 was two months ago...

It would be beneficial for all if the keywords dissertation or thesis would be mentioned somewhere on this page (not only within a pdf hidden in a zip). Also links from dissertation instruction pages such as that of Electrical Engineering (in all languages) would help the postgraduate students.

It would also be good to have some type of policy with the \bibliographystyle. In the old environment, we used tkkdiss, now there seems to be some policies set by different schools but not really defined in a public instruction page.

Thanks for replies. Another problem: the \addpublication command has the "optional" argument <type>, which I assume is quite compulsory in a dissertation. Where are the possible values for <type> listed, the aaltoseries.pdf only tells of conference.

Frontmatter and mainmatter seem not to work in this documentclass. Are they really to be omitted, they have use e.g. in organizing the page numbering?

Is there any guide on how the abstract is formatted within an Aalto dissertation? The old tkkdiss document class had a series of commands that created the abstract. These seem not to be usable in aaltoseries.

Hi Jussi,

Thanks for your quick reply. I added the draft option to the document class and that generates a draft title page, which was what I was looking for. In case anyone needs the publication platform as well, it lives here: https://inside.aalto.fi/display/AboutAalto/Aalto+publication+series

Cheers,

Gijs

Is it intentional that draft mode hides epsfig pictures?

I am using Kile ver. 2.1.0 to run the dissertation.tex. It gives the following error:

./aaltoseries.cls:599:Package xkeyval Error: 'textformat' undefined in  families 'caption' ...font={AaltoSeriesCaption},labelfont={bf}}

Does anybody know how I can get rid of this error?

Thanks,

Mikail

simple question: I cannot see the title. I just download everything and set in Lyx the document class with local layout to "aaltoseries". It mostly works, but I just cannot see the title and author I added in there. 

I am using the packages amsmath and natbib with the aaltoseries document class. I'm also using a third party bst file attached: elsarticle-harv.bst.

Before starting my work I just copied aaltologo.sty and aaltoseries.cls into my work folder. I'm working on the TeXWorks environment for Mac.

When I run pdfLaTeX, bibtex, and then pdfLaTeX again for the second time, I get the following error:

! Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8:‐ not set up for use with LaTeX.

As a result I'm stuck with my bibliography for the dissertation.

I think it has the do with a special character in the *.bbl file or some kind of clashes between the additional packages and the aaltoseries class, or the requirements of the bst file itself. But I am not sure how to proceed. Could you recommend how to fix this issue?

Thanks,

Pavan

how to add list of publications

%%Forarticledissertations,removeifyouwriteamonographdissertation.
\listofpublications
after this

%% For article dissertations, remove if you write a monograph dissertation.

\listofpublications

how to add list of publications

%%Forarticledissertations,removeifyouwriteamonographdissertation.
\listofpublications
after this

%% For article dissertations, remove if you write a monograph dissertation.

\listofpublications

How to add preface and a list of abbreviations in the aaltoseries latex template?

Preface is just simple unnumbered (starred) chapter after which the preface text is written. The aaltoseries template doesn't take any sides in the debate how the lists of abbreviations, symbols, etc. are typeset. That means that you can do them however you (and most likely your supervisor) want to typeset them.

Jussi Pekonen

Should the \addpdfarticle command work if the publication type is set to 'dissertation'? I get an undefined control sequence error.

In my article dissertation, I have an article for which the copyright year is 2012, but the nominal year of the journal issue where the article is published is 2013 (this is because the article was available online first). However, there is only one "year" that is used for both when adding a publication.

Is it possible to separately define the article year from the copyright year for the publication information page? I could not find a way to do this.

Hi

I am writing a thesis compendium in latex using \documentclass[dissertation,nopagenumbers,nochapters]{aaltoseries}. For some reason, my figure numbers still include chapter numbers. I would like to remove them. How can I do that, because this nochapters option doesn't do it for me. But maybe i am inserting it to wrong place?

Thanks.

Dear Jussi, Dear All,

I am writing my thesis compendium in latex, and I am getting the following warning from one my the papers to be included in my dissertation:

"pdfTeX warning: pdflatex.exe (file C:/Program Files/MiKTeX 2.9/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmr8.pfb): glyph `uni0034'

 undefined

pdfTeX warning: pdflatex.exe (file C:/Program Files/MiKTeX 2.9/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmr8.pfb): glyph `uni003D'

 undefined

><C:/Program Files/MiKTeX 2.9/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmsy10.pfb", etc.

I am getting this error only for one of the pdf files (taken from IEEExplore, with all fonts embedded, printout is fine as well), and I could not find any errors or problems with the pdf either. The issue is that all the equations and math symbols in this pdf file vanishes in the dissertation, which makes it difficult to include this paper in the dissertation. I have even updated the MikTex 2.9 'cm' package, with no improvement in the situation.

I was wondering if anyone else has faced the same problem, and is aware of a solution. Googling the problem does not yield any solutions either!

Thanks in advance!

I have a question about articles in submitted state in a PhD thesis. Can anyone help or suggest whom I should contact?

I have one article in a submitted state and I mark it as \addpublication[submitted]... When I compile my thesis in draft mode, the "Submitted to" text appears in the thesis for that publication. However, when I compile in final mode, that text does not appear. Why? This shouldn't be the desired behaviour: I asked an academic coordinator and a professor about this and they both stated that the "Submitted to" text definitely should be in the thesis. So, am I doing something wrong with the package or why is the package working like this?

Hi,

the instructions of my department say I have to include a doi of of the publications to the info in the list of publications. There seems not to be a convenient way of doing this in the template. Does anyone have viable suggestions?

-Hanne

Hei,

Miten BibTeX:istä tuodun lähdeluettelon saa kandityön loppuun noudattamaan suomenkielistä meininkiä: siis kirjoittajien listassa "and" sijaan "ja" jne.? Otsikko tulee kyllä suomeksi jo.

Kiitoksia!

Terveisin

Eero

Hi, I would like to add "submitted to" to a publication. I read this is possible to do only in draft mode, and the problem is that when I am in draft mode I get lots of erros, like Undefined control sequence (list of publications). What do I do wrong? Moreover, is it possible to add a publication as "other", without including the whole paper in the thesis?
Thanks! 

It is not generally known, but you can set up a PDF file in such a way, that you can jump to a certain location in it from a web page, e.g., like this:

https://users.aalto.fi/~mvermeer/geodesy.pdf#nameddest=chapter.5

which jumps straight to chapter 5.

It requires a bit of preparation of the PDF file. In LaTeX, you must load hyperref with the destlabel option:

\usepackage[destlabel=true, ..., ...]{hyperref}

You must do this at hyperref loading time, not with hypersetup.

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This facility seems perhaps rather exotic, but it would be very useful in a situation where an integrated teaching environment (which are taking off fast, and which also Aalto folks are playing with) needs to integrate seamlessly with textbook-style materials.

I have provisionally taken over maintenance of Aalto-LaTeX, and am now using the new version.aalto.fi gitlab service.

You can find a slightly updated version of the latest aaltoseries.cls (i.e., version 1.2.1) here:

https://version.aalto.fi/gitlab/latex/aaltoseries/tree/master

I haven't yet gotten around to Aalto-Beamer and all the rest of Aalto-LaTEX, but, in due time.

Hi Martin,

The top margin of the dissertation body is very narrow. Text looks crammed in the printed dissertations. This makes them strange and unpleasing to read.  The vertical space between header of the page and the first line of the body text needs to be increased significantly.  Is it acceptable to modify the top margin?

P.S. A slight increase in the bottom margin can also improve the look of the pages, but it is not vital. Line spacing of the body text can be decreased to keep the number of the lines same. The lines are spaced wider than normal. I can do the changes and send you an example.

Hi Hassan,

yes the whole appearance of the dissertation page format is a bit strange. But I can only do bug fixes and changes that are officially approved... at this point I can create a branch containing your improvements, and find out what the powers that be think of it (in fact, I haven't been able to find who those are )

Committed an update in reponse to Hassan's remarks and using his contribution. Now there is an option 'vertlayout', which enables a better looking vertical layout: top and bottom margins and line spacing.

Also some smaller improvements: a better typewriter font, enabling the 'microtype' package, and more math testing material in the dissertation template.

I've been relatively successful in exporting from LibreOffice (and LibreDraw SVG) through Writer2LaTeX, and am now in Chapter 2 of 9.  

The alignment in the list of figures is out, because I have a lot of figures, i.e. 2.10, 2,11, 2.12.  The alignment is off even more because I have long captions, and the wrapped (second) line is position slightly left of where it should be.  (I have long section and subsection titles, too, but the table of contents is better aligned.

Is this something that can be fixed in the template, or do I have to attack a style sheet?  Thanks.

oiltb-vol1_front.pdf

Here's a minimal PDF, with the front tables, to show the alignment.

Does this show the issue?  If I have to create a MWE, I'll have to figure out how to embed at least 10 figures into body, so that the count gets up to n.10.

This alignment issue only shows up in the List of Figures, not the List of Tables (as yet) nor the Contents.

I'm having problems with wrapfigure not behaving as I would expect.  When I set it to L or l, the figure aligns outside the margin rather than to the paragraph left.  When I set it to R or r, the figure aligns to the paragraph right, but the text is superimposed over top of the figure, rather than flowing around it.  

Could this be a problem with something associated with widefloatshift?

I'm attaching (a) manuscript_wrapfig_wanted.pdf , a snippet formatted in LibreOffice and exported to PDF; (b) latex-mwe.pdf as PDF output from TeXstudio; and (c) 20170428_latex-mwe.tar.gz a compressed file with MWE that produced the PDF.

Suggestions are welcomed.

Hello,

In the dissertation example, the Contents starts on the same page with the Preface. Is this normal behavior?

Thank you.

My Ph.D. supervisor "highly recommends" that I should apply APA style in my dissertation. For Chicago author-date, LaTeX is working fine.

If I change from ...

\usepackage[
 backend=biber,
 style=chicago-authordate,
 sortlocale=en_EN,
 sorting=nyt,
 natbib=true,
 url=true, 
 doi=true,
 eprint=false
 ]{biblatex}

... to ...

\usepackage[
 backend=biber,
 style=apa,
 sortlocale=en_EN,
 sorting=nyt,
 natbib=true,
 url=true, 
 doi=true,
 eprint=false
 ]{biblatex}
\DeclareLanguageMapping{american}{american-apa}

... I get an error (line 266) "Undefined control sequence".

The problem is the same with just the change in style, and if I add the DeclareLanguageMapping , as instructed at http://ctan.mackichan.com/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-apa/biblatex-apa.pdf , page 3 ...

If you are using babel:
\usepackage[american]{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[style=apa]{biblatex}
\DeclareLanguageMapping{american}{american-apa}

Here's the MWE: 20170514_latex-mwe-chicago-authordate.tar.gz 

Do you have any suggestions? I've seen a similar issue at https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/80440/using-biblatex-apa and https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/80440/using-biblatex-apa .

I'm Canadian, and would prefer Canadian spelling, but for the bibiography, either American or British spelling is okay.

How do I add two appendix chapters at the end of a monograph dissertation?  In LibreOffice, I used Heading 1 without chapter numbers, which made naming the chapters as Appendix 1 and Appendix 2 show up fine after Chapter 9.

I thought I saw an Appendix section somewhere, but am now only finding it in old Finnish documentation.

Are there some resolutions for csquotes?  I've created an MWE, see 20170514_latex-mwe-chicago-authordate.tar.gz , a folder that includes a resulting pdf.

In the MWE, there are two blockquotes.

(1) In the first blockquote, there are two paragraphs.  In the second blockquote, there are three paragraphs.  Instead of having the multiple paragraphs all flowing together, I would expect a newline with vertical space in between those paragraphs, or indenting of the subsequent paragraphs.  The second blockquote doesn't even create a newline.

(2) After the blockquote, I had tried a \noindent in the following paragraph.  This doesn't work.  I have found a workaround with {\setlength{\parindent}{0cm} , but will have to include this after every blockquote.

(3) The vertical whitespace between (a) the preceding paragraph and the blockquote, and (b) the blockquote and subsequent paragraph seems large.  Is there a way to reduce that?

Of the three issues, the first one causes issues with understanding.  The other two, I can work around.  Thanks.

Hi,

I should include in my Thesis a clarification of subcontracting used in the Thesis, which in my case means three sentences about language check. In my opinion, the most natural place for these three sentences would be on the Author's contributions page, after the contributions listed per publication. Of course, these sentences should form a paragraph of their own, clearly separated from the contributions related to each publication.

However, since these sentences don't relate to any of the publications, they can't be added using the \addcontribution command as there is no preceding \addpublication command. So, is there any other way to input text to the Author's contributions page?

Thanks,

Onerva

I just uploaded to version an updated aaltoseries.cls, fixing a problem with draftabstract.

You will know that aaltoseries allows you to generate an abstract in three languages, but only in draft mode. It turned out that, for the abstract in the document language – usually English – the font settings for the abstract did not take hold, due to a missing \selectfont command.

--

While doing this, I noticed that in my version of Ubuntu, 16.04LTS, the file finnish.ldf contains a missing percent sign, causing a spurious little indent. Like this

\def\abstractname{Tiivistelm\"a}

edit it to

\def\abstractname{Tiivistelm\"a}%

You need to use sudo on your own computer (and you cannot do it on Aalto's computers )

Hi,

The latest dissertation template has a problem with margins. We compiled the dissertation example on different machines and all came out with no margins and text running out of the borders.

Another issue: the links to zip files are broken. I updated the alltoseries link, but aaltologo still has a broken link. The downloaded zip file is empty. We need permanent links to Git master.

OK, should be fixed now. The version of dissertation.tex in the repository had the 'abstracts' option set, meant for producing the PDF abstracts to be inserted into the publication platform. Yes, that messes up the margins for the rest of the text. Now removed.

Now also the aaltologo zip file download works – it is generated online from the git repository. The URL for this was wrong (has it changed?)

Hi, 

the font of the page headers in table of contents, list of figures and list of tables is different from other headers (e.g. List of Publications). In the first case it's a serif font, whereas it is a sans serif for all other chapter headings. This is also the case when I compile the dissertation example given in the .zip above. 

Do others have this problem or is this specific to my machine?

Any suggestions how to best change the font?

Thanks,

Anna

Package split?

I have noticed that the fact that the class file and related files are in the root of the project, while the example files and what they need, like dissertation.tex, are in the subdirectory 'examples', causes confusion.

After downloading and unzipping the project, the user has either to manually move over the class related files to 'examples', or move dissertation.tex and everything called from it, like the bibliography, image files, included text files... up to root.

Would it be easier to split the package into two, 'aaltoseries' and 'aaltoseries-examples'? Then, people can just download both (and aaltologo) to the same working directory, and start editing. Would this be clearer?

Martin

Hi,

I would like to mention that the hyperref package does not work properly. The problem is that the created link does not "jump" to the correct location in the page. For example, in the dissertation example when one click on the "List of Publications" it jumps at the first line of text of the corresponding page, not at the heading, as it should. This happens for all of the \chapter* used in the dissertation. When \chapter is used the jump is at the correct place.

The big problem is when one has also various lists (symbols, abbreviations, tables, figures, etc.) and then the jump is not even on the correct page. This is not a problem for printing, however for the purpose of having links and bookmarks in the pdf this does not work properly.

I was not able to fix it myself, any suggestions are appreciated. Thank you!

Marian

New sub-version published: v1.2.3.

Now it offers commands for a list of abbreviations, a list of symbols, the known lists of figures and tables, but with ToC links and side-panel entries working correctly in hyperref.

What should I do if I need to write some Chinese characters in the thesis?

I had find some solutions online but none of them works.

Hi,

The text in the Errata page is quite big compared with the rest of the text. Is there a way to use a smaller font size for that particular text?

Thanks!

Oscar

Try an environment. \begin{small} ... \end{small}

Your suggestion works. Thanks Martin.

Hi,

I am looking for the right latex template for article-based doctoral thesis. Can you point towards the file in this package that I can use for that? Thank you!

There seems to be a bug (option conflict) in the aaltoseries.cls template, if you try to use aaltologo.sty. The culprit is line 192.

Commenting the line out seems to fix it, and not have any other effects. That's the workaround until I commit something better.

HI,

I am trying to add the package hyperref, but my doctoral thesis does not compile if I add this command. COuld you please suggest how to add hyperref without problems?

What error message do you get? What did you try to do? - Martin

But in the version of the document currently in the repository at version.aalto.fi, this statement, at line 25, is already uncommented, and has been for a long time. The document compiles fine in spite of this.

The error message suggests that you have something in your preamble that is badly wrong. I suggest you make a copy of your .tex file, and replace its preamble with the one found in the dissertation.tex file in the repository. I expect that it will compile fine. After that, you could, step, by step, re-introduce your changes and see which one causes trouble.

HTH Martin

Hi,

When compiling the "dissertation" example, the List of Publications has the list numbering alligned left, which effectively indents each publication name by different amounts (please see the picture I've attached). I've seen from other dissertations that the publication names can be alligned on the page (without being "pushed" by the numbers).

I've tried compiling in TeXStudio and Overleaf, both give the same result.

What am I doing wrong? -Maksim

I am just finalizing my dissertation with the use of this template and wonder whether it is possible to remove the self-referencing of tableofcontents (i.e., the row "Contents") from the TOC? I have tried several different options from the web, however, without success.

There hasn't been any issues compiling, but I notice that my text (in draft) is only single-spaced. Most of my colleagues dissertations have been 1.5 space (approximately), but I cannot figure out why. Aside from using the latest series, nothing else appears to be different in the .tex files on Overleaf.

How can I get the url date to show in the Bibliography? I have the "urldate" specified in the bib file, but the tex file does not seem to use it in its current form.

I used the 'changes' package to highlight the changes made in my revised thesis. Now when I define the changes as final (\usepackage[final]{changes}), everything blows up. Any ideas how to fix this, as I would prefer not to do rewrite a separate version of my thesis manually?

EDIT: The culprit seems to be (a guess) a bunch corruptions with different packages. My best option at this point is just to rewrite the changed parts manually. Thus, would not recommend the changes package to anyone who will have to revise any content excluding letters a-z.

Sorry I am not familiar with the 'changes' package. But I see that also the aaltoseries class itself has options 'draft' and 'final' that do quite complicated things... what do you mean more specifically by 'everything blows up'?

BTW the 'changes' manual Ch 5 refers to a script by Yvon Cui. Could you use that?

Hi,

how I can I remove or change the "Reprint with permission" statement on the cover pages that proceed each original article individually? Some of my articles require this permission statement, but others are published under a Creative Commons License or the copyright remains with the authors/institutions.

Thank you! - Philipp

Hi,

The url for the DOI of my publicaitions in the list of publications is malfunctioning. It includes the comma and the month into the url. Here is an example.

Would anyone have a solution to this? This is how my \addpublication line looks like:

\addpublication[ ]{Rahul Kallada Janardhan and Simo Hostikka}{Predictive Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulation of Fire Spread on Wood Cribs}{Fire Technology}{55, 2245–2268, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10694-019-00855-3}{November}{2019}{Authors}{j1}

Best regards,

Rahul

Hello,

is there somehow to add "Original Features" section, which is typically before "List of Abbreviations/Symbols" and after "Author's Contributions"?

Br,

Janne

Hi,

In the aaltologo repository, there are logos for the Aalto School of Economics instead of the School of Business, which is the current name. Would it be possible to fix the outdated logo?

I suppose it can be done, as I did similar things some time ago. But it is serious hacking, as the co-ordinates of the outlines of the letters are hardwired in the code (don't ask ;-)).

Which logos precisely are affected?

Actually I see in the aaltologo.sty file that I have been fixing this in 2017. The options are SchoolOfBusiness and BIZ, please see if they work ...

Best,

Martin