Credits
The RPI Thesis Toolkit is an unofficial, community-made project. This page thanks the people who made it, names whose work it builds on, and says what is ours and what is not. Mentioning RPI, its offices, or anyone else here does not mean they contributed to, reviewed, or endorse this project.
On this page
People
All kinds of help get credit: feedback through the form, issues, tips, testing, examples, and pull requests, large or small.
| Contributor | Contribution |
|---|---|
| Diyanko Bhowmik | Project initiation and maintenance |
Helped and not listed? Credit is optional and opt-in; see add or update a credit.
RPI's requirements and original template
The formatting rules come from RPI's Office of Graduate Education (OGE): the Dissertation and Thesis Manual and checklists on the OGE submission page (opens in a new tab). The class was also compared with RPI's official LaTeX template, available from RPI ITS's Thesis Preparation page (opens in a new tab), whose files credit Harriet Borton (ITS) and Michael Sofka. This project is an independent implementation: it copies none of RPI's files and does not include the RPI seal, which each student downloads from RPI.
What's ours and what isn't
| Whose | What |
|---|---|
| Ours (the people above) | The class (rpi-thesis.cls), starter examples, scripts, guide, diagrams, cheat sheet, and website, under the MIT license |
| RPI's | The requirements, manual, checklists, original LaTeX template, seal, and name; not covered by this project's license |
| Other projects' | The tools and fonts below, under their own licenses |
| Yours | Your thesis or dissertation: your text, figures, data, and permissions; never covered by this project's license |
The license grants no trademark rights and implies no endorsement by RPI or its Office of Graduate Education.
The full record, with sources and how each item is treated, is the attribution record.
Tools
The toolkit uses or recommends these free tools; none is bundled in the starter.
- LaTeX (opens in a new tab) and its packages from CTAN (opens in a new tab), including biblatex (opens in a new tab), with Biber (opens in a new tab) and latexmk (opens in a new tab), as distributed in TeX Live (opens in a new tab)
- Pandoc (opens in a new tab), which builds this website and the offline guide
- pdf.js (opens in a new tab), by Mozilla and contributors (Apache License 2.0), which the website's optional "Check your PDF" page includes unchanged to read a PDF in your browser
- Zotero (opens in a new tab) and Better BibTeX for Zotero (opens in a new tab)
- LaTeX Workshop (opens in a new tab) for VS Code (opens in a new tab)
Fonts
The website uses two typefaces under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 (opens in a new tab):
- Fraunces (opens in a new tab) (headings), by Undercase Type (Phaedra Charles and Flavia Zimbardi)
- Atkinson Hyperlegible Next (opens in a new tab) (body text), by the Braille Institute of America with Applied Design Works
Their license texts are included with the website: Fraunces and Atkinson Hyperlegible Next.
Code of conduct
The project's code of conduct is the Contributor Covenant (opens in a new tab), version 2.1, used under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.
Add or update a credit
When feedback, a tip, a test, an example, or a fix is used, the maintainer asks whether its contributor would like to appear in the table above, and adds their chosen public name and a short description of the help. You can opt in at any time, change how you are named, or ask to be removed: say so on an issue, or through the form linked from ask for help. Anonymous help is welcome. Do not publish an email address, student number, or inferred identity, and do not turn issue authors or commit metadata into a list of people automatically. Ways to help are in CONTRIBUTING.md.