2025-dotson-dissertation

This repository holds my preliminary exam document. The style guide comes from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Graduate College. A link to the resources may be found here.

Compiling the prelim document

Windows

The document style must be compiled using biber. Doing this from the command line is more reliable than modifying TeXworks or other editor (I have experienced issues with Windows blocking a biber.exe call from TeXworks). Make sure your LaTeX installation is up-to-date.

C:\Users\samgd\Research\2025-dotson-dissertation\docs>pdflatex -shell-escape thesis.tex
C:\Users\samgd\Research\2025-dotson-dissertation\docs>biber thesis  # This is not a typo. Do not include a file extension.
C:\Users\samgd\Research\2025-dotson-dissertation\docs>pdflatex -shell-escape thesis.tex
C:\Users\samgd\Research\2025-dotson-dissertation\docs>pdflatex -shell-escape thesis.tex

Linux

$ cd 2025-dotson-dissertation/docs
$ make

From the template repository

uiucthesis class

A LaTeX package for formatting theses in the format required by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Update Notes

• 3.1a (Samuel G Dotson)
  • Adds prelim macro
• 3.1 (Zachary J Weiner)
  • Format table of contents entries with titletoc, prepend "Chapter" and "Appendix"
  • Place appendices after references, returning to \mainmatter so that appendices are still numbered
  • Add copyright and licensing information
• 3.0 (Zachary J Weiner)
  • Significant revision, obsolete options removed and source simplified
• 2.25b (Stephen Mayhew)
  • Removed the Vita Section
  • Added a Makefile
  • Changed all dates from 2009 -> 2014
  • Be careful when updating the date in the first line of uiucthesis2021.dtx! All numbers must be two digits, including month and day.