README.md

PhD thesis

This folder contains my PhD thesis.

Compilation

Compilation happens with arara using a custom configuration. Put

!config
paths:
 - .

in your arara configuration file (${HOME}/araraconfig.yaml) such that the configuration files in this repository are loaded. Afterwards, you should be able to run

arara phdthesis.tex

to fully compile the thesis. It is recommended to use a Unix-like system (Mac OS X or Linux), since Windows has not been tested at all.

Remark

Getting the compilation process started can be troublesome, since it heavily relies on temporary files being created. During a first compilation, it is possible that you get a slew of errors in pgfplots. Currently, the work-around for this is to:

• remove all temp files (also .aux files in the subfolders, all contents of tikz folders, ...)
• turn off morewrites if possible,
• first compile every chapter by itself using the \includeonly at the top level,
• once each chapter compiles on itself, you can try running the whole document.

I suspect the problems are due to many TikZ files being externalized but they still have to be parsed and it seems there might be a slight memory/resource leak. By compiling in smaller increments, that leak doesn't get triggered as easily.