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Northwestern University Dissertation Template - Quarto

2 July, 2024

I am writing my dissertation in Quarto, and didn’t find an existing template. I took some latex code from this existing template and amended the Quarto book defaults.

To help others who might want to do the same, I’ve published a minimal example here. Simply clone that repository to get started.

It is very minimal, and far from perfect. For example, front matter before the table of contents – acknowledgments, preface, glossary – have to be written in latex in the current setup. There are ways to have them compiled from markdown as well, no doubt, but it wasn’t worth the trouble. Appendices are another issue. Ideally I’d like cross-references to appendix content to have custom prefixes (e.g. automatically say “see table A2” if a table is located in the appendix) but that still seems a bit tricky (see discussion here) – this will no doubt be easier in the future.

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