Modernizing MIT's thesis template: mitthesis.cls
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tb146lienhard-mitthesis.pdf
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Author(s)
Lienhard, John
Date Issued
August 31, 2026
Journal
TUGboat
Publisher
TeX Users Group
Citation
Modernizing MIT's thesis template: mitthesis.cls, John H. Lienhard, TUGboat, volume 47, number 2 (2026), pages 212–221.
Version
Final published version
Abstract
A few years ago, I began an update to MIT’s LaTeX template for theses and dissertations. The previous template had been written in LaTeX 2.09 in the 1980s and patched for LaTeX 2𝜀 by various students during the 1990s. My work quickly turned into a complete rewrite. My goals were to use current LaTeX methods and to produce tagged PDF while still supporting users who have minimal knowledge of LaTeX and typesetting. In this note, I discuss some of the considerations that have shaped the current template, the implementation of tagging for non-standard document elements, rendering in HTML/CSS, and some aspects of expl3 coding.
Subjects
thesis template construction
pdf tagging
expl3 coding
HTML/CSS
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering
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http://dx.doi.org/10.47397/tb/47-2/tb146lienhard-mitthesis
