Last Thursday, I took a plunge into latex programming, trying to customize the thesis cover page according to the UNSW format. It’s true that the Scientific Word has a number of thesis templates from which I can choose but none of them is satisfactory. Even its UNSW thesis template is not suitable for postgraduate thesis; well it was written by someone for his undergraduate thesis in EE.
So, I decided to create my own cover page plus copyright page, declaration and dedication. It was a “hair-scratching and pulling” path for someone who is not familiar with Latex programming like me. I could only deduce and guess how it works, looking at several class files. “Trial-and-error” is basically my best virtue.
On Sunday night, I started to have a good grip on this and managed to finish the cover page plus other attachments. Here they are.
One thing really still puzzles me; the process of adding things into the table of contents using the command \addcontentsline . For example, there are 3 pages dedicated to the List of Figures . Naturally, the table of contents should indicate the first page of the section. But somehow, it displays the last page. This is so weird…worth checking later when I have time.