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Unofficial masters and doctoral thesis template for the School of Graduate Studies at the University of Toronto.

The following command will create a directory named my-thesis/ that will contain the files necessary to render the thesis:

typst init @preview/clean-uoft-thesis:0.1.1 my-thesis

The following files are found within the content/ directory:

main.typ

This is the file which yields the complete thesis upon compilation. Template settings are placed at the start of this file within the #show: uoft.with(...) call.

This file also directly manages the content for the entirety of the thesis with the exception of the following special sections:

  • title page
  • abstract
  • acknowledgements
  • outlines (e.g., table of contents)

In the provided sample file, thesis content is not placed directly within main.typ but rather passed into the file with #include statements. Feel free to adjust the organization or included components of this file as you wish.

abstract.typ and acknowledgements.typ

The abstract and acknowledgement sections are the only content files whose positions in the thesis are not controlled by arbitrary placement within main.typ. They instead must be passed into the #show: uoft.with(...) call at the start of main.typ. Do not otherwise manually #include these files into main.typ.

references.bib

A BibLaTeX formatted .bib file to store citations used within the thesis.

All other *.typ files

All other files are content files to be edited and included into main.typ with #include statements.

Settings are passed into the #show: uoft.with(...) call in main.typ.

Essential settings

These settings must be adjusted to suit each individual’s thesis.

  • title: Title of thesis. Default value is none.
  • author: The full name of the thesis author. Default value is *missing-param-author*.
  • department: The name of the department associated with the thesis. This field should not include “Department of” (i.e., simply write “Physiology” instead of “Department of Physiology”). Default value is *missing-param-department*.
  • degree: The degree associated with the thesis. Acceptable values must either begin with “Doctor” or “Master”.
  • graduation-year: The year of graduation of the author of the thesis. This value must be passed as a content type and not as a number ("2025" or [2025] rather than 2025). Default value is *missing-param-year*.

Optional settings

These settings control formatting and optional components of the thesis and, unless otherwise stated by department-specific formatting instructions, may be ignored.

  • font-size: The font size to use for the main thesis text. The default value is 12pt. The specified value must be at least 10pt.
  • show-acknowledgements: If the acknowledgements section should be shown. Default value is true.
  • show-list-of-tables: If the list of table section should be shown. Default value is true.
  • show-list-of-plates: If the list of plates section should be shown. Default value is false.
  • show-list-of-figures: If the list of figures should be shown. Default value is true.
  • show-list-of-appendices: If the list of appendices should be shown. Default value is true.
  • title-page-top-margin: How large the top margin should be on the title page. Default value is 5cm. Acceptable values are 2in and 5cm.
  • title-page-bottom-margin: How large the bottom margin should be on the title page. Default value is 3cm. Acceptable values are 1.25in and 3cm.
  • title-page-gap-1-height: How large the gap between the title of the thesis and the word “by” should be on the title page. Default is 4cm. Acceptable values are 1.5in and 4cm.
  • title-page-gap-2-height: How large the gap between the word “by” and the author’s name should be on the title page. Default is 4cm. Acceptable values are 1.5in and 4cm.
  • title-page-gap-3-height: How large the gap between the author’s name and the degree should be on the title page. Default is 5cm. Acceptable values are 2in and 5cm.
  • title-page-gap-4-height: How large the gap between the degree and the copyright line should be on the title page. Default is 3cm. Acceptable values are 1.25in and 3cm.
  • page-size-style: Whether the page should be 21.5cm by 28cm ("metric") or 8.5in by 11in ("imperial"). Default value is "metric".
  • main-margin-style: What sizes to use for the main thesis margins. Options are:
    • "left-metric" 20mm top, 20mm bottom, 32mm left, 20mm right (default)
    • "left-imperial" 0.75in top, 0.75in bottom, 1.25in left, 0.75in right
    • "metric" 20mm on all sides
    • "imperial" 0.75in on all sides

This template allows figures, tables, and plates to have separate captions and outline entries (descriptors in the List of Figures, List of Tables, and List of Plates). This functionality was achieved by adapting the following code snippet by user /u/Andrew from the typst forums: https://forum.typst.app/t/how-do-i-customize-outline-entries-it-inner-it-body/3591/7. To display separate text in the caption of a figure, table, or plate from its outline entry:

  1. Ensure that the template is imported in the file containing that figure, table, or plate

#import "@preview/clean-uoft-thesis:0.1.1": *

  1. Construct your caption using the multicaption function as follows:
#figure(
  rect(),
  caption: multicaption[Brief title shown in List of Figures.][
      Additional caption elaboration that is displayed under the figure after the brief title, but is not displayed in the List of Figures.
  ],
)

0.1.1

  • Addition of multicaption capability (display short captions for outlines and full captions for tables, figures, and plates)
  • Increased spacing between lines in main text and around headings
  • Enable breaking figures across pages
  • Left align figure captions
  • Place table captions on top of tables
  • Italicize captions

0.1.0

  • Initial release