HarvardThesis 0.2
Jordan Suchow, April 2011.
http://jwsu.ch/ow/

For contributions, comments, and bug reports, 
please contact me at suchow {at} fas.harvard.edu.

Modified by Andrew Leifer, August 2011
http://andrewleifer.com
[email protected]



*** An introduction ***

The HarvardThesis package provides all of files needed to support the production and typesetting of a PhD thesis at Harvard. 

Note: As of Summer 2012, this template has been used successfully by at least a handful of PhD students at Harvard whose theses were accepted and who graduated.

For an example of a completed and accepted Harvard Thesis using this template, see:
https://github.com/aleifer/dissertation   (source code)
http://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/9276708/Leifer_gsas.harvard_0084L_10388.pdf  (compiled pdf)




****Installation***

This is the setup that Andrew uses on Windows and Mac:

For Windows XP:
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Download basic-miktex-2.9.4244.exe  http://miktex.org/
Download SumatraPDF v 1.5.1 http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/free-pdf-reader.html
Download this Git Repo 

Installatioan instructions:
Copy the contents of fonts\ into 
C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\fonts\opentype\public\ChaparralPro


To complie, from the MSYS command prompt run: 
xelatex -synctex=-1 thesis.tex


For Mac OS X
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Downlaod MacTex (when I tried, the main site was down so I used this mirror)
http://mirror.unl.edu/ctan/systems/mac/mactex/MacTeX.mpkg.zip  
it should be roughly 2 GB
Install.

Install the fonts from the included "fonts" folder by using Apple OS X's "Font Book" application and going "File"->"Add Font."

I use the free PDF reader Skim and the now free and open source TextMate. Both integrate well with latex:

Skim is available http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/
Set Skim->Preferences->Sync to the Preset "TextMate." You can command-shift-click in the PDF to pull up a line in the code in Textmate.

Textmate is here: https://github.com/textmate/textmate
Now to setup TextMate, go to the Bundle->LaTex->Preferences and choose xelatex and Skim respectively.
Then go to Bundles->Latex-> File Preferences -> Set Master file and select your master file.. thesis.tex


To compile, from the terminal run:
xelatex  thesis


I also use Zotero http://www.zotero.org/ with the following modification to enable drag and drop cite keys:
For Bibtex Drag and Drop Functionality from Zotero see:
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/5094/drag-and-drop-bibtex-cite/
and in particular:
http://pastebin.com/GXmCJevn




**** Known Bugs ****
There is a minor bug regarding figure captions for full page figures. Harvard requires that full page figures be preceded by a page containing only a figure caption. I have modified the fltpage package to do this. Now the bug: on rare occasions, if LaTeX has many small floats in the queue, a second float can appear on the page that is supposed to have only the figure caption. This is a known bug in the fltpage package, see for example the comments in the original (unmodified) source: http://www.tex.ac.uk/CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/fltpage/fltpage.dtx


*** License ***

This software is free and is covered under the MIT License, given here:

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.