chungyuandye/ntou_thesis

This repository is a LaTeX template for master's and doctoral theses at the National Taiwan Ocean University (NTOU). LaTeX is a typesetting system that academic writers use to produce neatly formatted documents from plain text source files. The template follows the school's official thesis format spec, version 114-08-06, so a student does not have to figure out the margins, page order, and cover layout from scratch. The project ships a style file called ntou-thesis.sty and an example main file. A student opens the main file, fills in their personal information inside one configuration block called NTOUSetup (department name, degree, thesis title in Chinese and English, advisor name, date, and so on), and the template builds the cover, title page, degree exam page, and certificate page automatically. The bilingual Chinese and English abstract environment is included, and figures and tables are numbered continuously across the whole thesis rather than restarted in each chapter. The book spine PDF is produced from a separate file called bookspine.tex. You compile it on its own first, then the main file pulls the resulting PDF into the final thesis. The template must be compiled with the XeLaTeX engine; pdfLaTeX and LuaLaTeX are not supported. It works on Windows, macOS, and Linux, and the README walks through both VS Code with the LaTeX Workshop extension and Overleaf as editors. The school logo and watermark image are not included in the repo, so the student needs to get them from the department. The code is released under the MIT license.