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+# LaTeX template for a doctoral thesis at University of Luxembourg
+
+A LaTeX PhD thesis template is available in GitLab at
+[outreach/templates/unilu-thesis-template](https://gitlab.lcsb.uni.lu/outreach/templates/unilu-thesis-template).
+
+The repository includes several main items of interest:
+
+- in the `guidelines/` directory there is a snapshot of official "Practical
+  information for Prospective PhD candidates" PDF, which contains the official
+  recommendations regarding the thesis formatting. It is suggested that you
+  read that carefully, as that is the _official_ recommendation.
+
+- The thesis template itself, present mainly in files `thesis.tex` and
+  `macros.tex`. You are supposed to fill in your credentials into
+  `metadata.tex`, and use the other files (`summary.tex`, `intro.tex`, ...) for
+  the usual LaTeX thesis contents.
+
+- A simplified build system for the thesis: If developed in GitLab or on
+  GitHub, the thesis repository should be able to produce a PDF artifact with a
+  typeset thesis after each push. To build the thesis yourself on your
+  computer, you should be able to do it using any standard, sufficiently recent
+  TeXlive distribution, or with Docker. The documentation in the repository
+  contains several hints on how to do that.
+
+- The default thesis text (that you are supposed to erase and rewrite) contains
+  some mild hints about the structure of the thesis (mainly the 4 main
+  chapters), and various collected advice and demos about how to nicely typeset
+  the usual material that is found in the theses, such as citations, figures,
+  tables, mathematics, cross-references, appendices, etc. Various other things
+  (table of contents, section numbering, ...) work correctly by default.
+
+Because the official recommendations and requirements on the thesis form may
+change, **in case you find any serious discrepancy between the current
+recommendations and the thesis template, please let the template maintainers
+know**, so that it can get corrected. The easiest way to do that is to open an
+issue directly in the thesis template repository.