ADS PhD LaTeX template -- Custom Chapter Opening

This template is an example of a custom chapter opening in the adsphd template. Given the impact of this change: the complexity of this modification, the incompatibility of titlesec with biblatex, requiring the previous chapters to end on odd page to avoid a blank recto page; I have currently opted to offer it as a template modification instead of merging in it in the main repository.

Since this is just a modification to illustrate the custom chapter opening, always refer to the main repository for the last version of the adsphd template. This repository will not be updated to keep track of all those changes.

What is this custom chapter opening?

In my thesis, I preferred to open a chapter on a complete page spread with a local table of contents on the left-side and the chapter itself on the right side.

The image below illustrates what this looks like in the template thesis text:

What do I need to know before using this?

This repository includes a preamble.tex file with all the code needed to introduce this change. This needs file needs to be loaded in the main thesis.tex: \input{preamble.tex}.

Titlesec is incompatible with biblatex, if you want to customize the local table of contents with titlesec as done in this example, you cannot use biblatex.

Hyperref must be loaded afterwards. To use this modification, adsphd documentclass must be loaded with the nohyperref option. The preamble.tex file loads hyperref at the end.

How can I use it?

The custom opening is triggered with the following code:

\csname @openrightfalse\endcsname
\setboolean{spreadchapter}{true}

To prevent the final chapters, such as the bibliography from having this additional table of contents, toggle it off again.

\setboolean{spreadchapter}{false}
\csname @openrighttrue\endcsname

For any other information about the main adsphd documentclass refer to the main repository.