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UNR LaTeX Thesis/Dissertation Template version 0.4 (4 April 2026)
by Paul J. Hurtado, 
Department of Mathematics & Statistics, 
University of Nevada, Reno.

Updated versions of these files may be found at
https://pauljhurtado.com/latex/
or via the UNR Graduate School website.

Please send any suggestions for improving this template to
Paul Hurtado <phurtado@unr.edu>

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This zip file contains the file Thesis-template.tex that can be used either as a doctoral dissertation template or master's thesis template, and is designed to be used with the new LaTeX Tagging Project tools for generating Accessible PDF 2.0 documents. The folder should also contain an example thesis document that should be used as a resource during the preparation of your thesis/dissertation.

Please see the top of the Thesis-template.tex file for instructions to get started with the template.

These new LaTeX tools are still actively being developed, and the implementation details and package conflicts will likely be evolving over the next year or so!  Please be patient as we try and update this template accordingly, and help by sharing any suggestions you may have for improving the template and guidance for authors!  


Additionally,

1. See the "guidelines document" for dealing with these LuaLaTeX accessible PDFs at

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Bn4H9zB4_EiqsS7m38_1f-udxmJWJgVqUmzK6cKAvJI/

The document will likely be updated regularly. There are many constraints, so please review the example thesis document and the above guidelines carefully!!!


2. Many packages are incompatable (even if only partly incompatable) with the new LaTeX tagging routines, so be careful to not include unnecessary packages in the thesis/dissertation preamble.


3. After \begin{document} there are various frontmatter pages... avoid editing those more than you need to! 

You should only need to edit the contents of the Abstract, Dedication, and Acknowledgements pages, the copyright page (optional) will autopopulate. Comment out the optional pages that you wish to exclude from your thesis/dissertation.

4. You WILL need to edit the Committee Approval page to add the committee member information. In the past, the Committee Approval page was  added by inserting a 1 page PDF form provided by the graduate school. This might conflict with the document tagging and pagination, so I've made a native LaTeX version of that page.  It should autopopulate with the title, author, and advisor information, and the M.S. vs. Ph.D. content differences (please carefully follow the instructions at the top of the template document). 

You will only need to modify the committee member information. Make sure the final spacing looks like it agrees with the spacing in the grad school forms available at https://www.unr.edu/grad/current-students/filing-guidelines#6.

5. Finally, the top-level sections in this template are chapters, and the main content after the frontmatter begins at 

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After that, please refer to the Thesis-example.tex document for guidance on dealing with some of the workarounds needed to deal with the existing limitations of these new LaTeX tools.

6. The document should work in oneside and twoside modes, the latter giving odd and even pages different margins to accommodate binding the thesis/dissertation. Leave the documentclass settings to oneside unless you reach the point where you need to have the final, submitted document bound. Double check that all pages labeled with odd (even) page numbers are actually on odd (even) pages of the full PDF. 

7. If your document compiles without errors, that's excellent! Please also use the Adobe Acrobat accessibility checker (available on UNR computers) to ensure the document is also meeting the relevant accessiblity standards. Optionally, you may also want to test the document out with a screen reader for the visually impared, such as the free software NVDA (see the google doc linked above for more details). 