Merge branch 'acknowledgements-environment'

acknowledgements.tex

@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%% 
+%% Acknowledgements for your thesis in default document language
+%% 
+
+\cleardoubleoddpage%  Make sure to start acknowledgements on a new odd page
+\begin{acks*}
+Space for your acknowledgements.
+\end{acks*}
+
+%% 
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

jkureport.sty

@@ -1300,6 +1300,9 @@
 \defcaptionname{english,USenglish,american,UKenglish,british,canadian,australian,newzealand}{\acronymname}{List of Acronyms}
 \defcaptionname{german,germanb,ngerman,ngermanb,austrian,naustrian,swissgerman,nswissgerman}{\acronymname}{Abkürzungsverzeichnis}
 
+\defcaptionname{english,USenglish,american,UKenglish,british,canadian,australian,newzealand}{\acksname}{Acknowledgements}
+\defcaptionname{german,germanb,ngerman,ngermanb,austrian,naustrian,swissgerman,nswissgerman}{\acksname}{Danksagung}
+
 % Autoref labels
 \defcaptionname{english,USenglish,american,UKenglish,british,canadian,australian,newzealand}{\subsectionautorefname}{\sectionautorefname}
 \defcaptionname{german,germanb,ngerman,ngermanb,austrian,naustrian,swissgerman,nswissgerman}{\subsectionautorefname}{\sectionautorefname}
@@ -1978,6 +1981,23 @@
 % Command \setbottommark{text}: set the bottom mark (in document footer)
 \newcommand{\setbottommark}[1]{\renewcommand{\jkureport@insertbottommark}{{#1}}}
 
+% Environment acks: set the document acknowledgements on a dedicated page
+% Environment acks*: set the document acknowledgements on a dedicated page without enforcing a page break
+\newenvironment{acks*}{%
+    \ifdef{\chapter}{%
+        \addchap{\acksname}%
+    }{%
+        \addsec{\acksname}%
+    }%
+}{%
+}
+\newenvironment{acks}{%
+    \csuse{acks*}
+}{%
+    \csuse{acks*}%
+    \clearpage%
+}
+
 
 % Author metadata
 

main-thesis.tex

@@ -226,6 +226,17 @@
 %% 
 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
 
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%% 
+%% Include your acknowledgements into the frontmatter (optional and typically only
+%% used to acknowledge external funding, discuss with your supvervisor if unsure)
+%% 
+
+%\import{./}{acknowledgements}
+
+%% 
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+
 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
 %% 
 %% Add a table of contents (and optionally various other lists)