hepthesis - a LaTeX document class for academic theses
hepthesis
is a LaTeX document class for typesetting academic theses. In particular, to echo Donald Knuth, it is
intended to assist with theses which contain a lot of mathematics, and to this end introduces a variety of convenient
devices which non-mathematical users will never notice. hepthesis grew out of my need to typeset my own PhD (in high-
energy physics, hence the "hep") and my lamentable tendencies towards over-engineering and procrastination. As is the
way with such things, it's one of the more useful things to come from my PhD (other than the excellent start along what
promises to be a lifelong campaign of learning and research).
Download
hepthesis
is available through the CTAN (Comprehensive TeX Archive Network) system, specifically
here. You could also check out the development trunk
version from my Mercurial/hg
repository -- this will include any recent patches, since in recent times I've only made
one minor patch release per year (approximately): see the next section for more details on that.
Development
Without a thesis of my own to write, development and new features will be almost entirely user-driven -- to this end I'm
using the Mercurial distributed version control system. This makes it easier than
with e.g. SVN for users of hepthesis to make a "clone" of my repository and adapt hepthesis
as they see fit, without
needing commit access to my repository. Then, you think you've done something useful, you can send me a copy of your
branch (by email or by uploading to a website somewhere) and I'll merge it in if I like it. I think this is a promising
model, given that I'm unlikely to be the driving force behind future changes: the more work that can be done by others,
the better!
You can check out the repository from here by using something like
hg clone http://bzr.insectnation.org/hepthesis hepthesis
See the hg
documentation, and/or hginit for information on the variety of different ways that
hg
can be used.