UF Quarto Dissertation Template

This template is a reworking of UF's LaTeX dissertation template to work with Quarto (the successor to R markdown).

The process is pretty straight forward

1. Edit the header of 00-dissertation-setup.qmd to your name, dergeem, title, etc.
2. Edit the contents of the various files in the /preface/ folder (just type in plain text, no formatting required)
3. Edit the 01- through 06- .qmd files to your dissertation content as your would write any .qmd file
4. Render 00-dissertation-setup.qmd to produce dissertation.pdf combining all files together in line with the UF template

Tips

• Insert tables as either kable() for simple tables or use gtsummary to create a more complex table and then as_kable_extra()
  • Ensure you add the specific formatting options given in the Appendix example code
  • Ensure all table code chunks are appropriately labeled #| label: tbl-<something> with #| tbl-caption: <a caption> for a caption and #| tbl-pos: H to try and force placement there
  • Ensure all table code chunks are preceeded by \realSingleSpace and followed by \doublespacing as they are in the example files
• Insert figures as chunk output or directly as images
  • Ensure all figure code chunks are appropriately labeled #| label: fig-<something> with #| fig-caption: <a caption> for a caption and #| fig-pos: H to try and force placement there
  • Ensure all figure images are appropriately labeled by including a caption in the markdown ![<a caption>]() and adding a label {#fig-<something>} after the image markdown e.g., ![<a caption>](path/to/image.png){#fig-<something>}
• Don't try to add a header to any of the 01- through 06- .qmd files, it may cause errors, either render these individual documents without a header to see an html preview, or, render 00-dissertation-setup.qmd to produce the full document dissertation.pdf
• If you want to use RStudio's automatic system to add references to your bibliography file, you will need to temporarily add bibliography: latex/referenceFile.bib to the header of the file you're working on, but, if it causes errors (usually if it's in more than 2 files) just delete the header when finished to render