In June 2003 I received a PhD degree in Computer Science from the Delft University of Technology.
I typeset my PhD thesis using LaTeX, which is an extremely powerful document preparation system, but not always for the faint of heart. Luckily, there is a wealth of information available in books and on-line that allowed me to eventually solve most of the problems I encountered.
All that problem-solving left me with quite a bit of LaTeX knowledge in my head, much of it specific to my thesis, some of it specific to a Delft University thesis, and some of it more generally useful.
I created this website because I felt it was better to write this knowledge down than to just let it all slip away again.
Many people make their finished thesis available on-line, but it was a big disappointment to me that no other Delft University graduate students working in LaTeX (or at least none that I could find) had ever seemed to think of putting the sources to their theses on-line.
I am trying to set a good example by making available not just my finished thesis, but also the full LaTeX source archive. All my code is free for you to use or adapt.
This page contains answers to a number of general “How can you do foo in LaTeX?” questions.
I do not claim any particular insights or originality here — much of this can readily be found elsewhere, and most of it is configuration, not creation. But it sure would have helped me to have all of these listed together in one place, illustrated with code snippets and before-and-after pictures of the results...