setup.tex

\usepackage[
	citestyle=ieee, 
    bibstyle=ieee,
    style=numeric-comp,
    sorting=nty, 
%     sortcites=true
    ]{biblatex}
    
% Makes the last name first in the bibliography.
\DeclareNameAlias{author}{last-first}
    
% Specify the margins
\usepackage[a4paper, margin=3cm]{geometry}

\usepackage{eso-pic}								% Packages for layout and graphics 
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{tocloft}		 						% Fixing a bug with page style changes for toc
\tocloftpagestyle{fancy}
\usepackage{etoc} 									%Separate tocs for appendix and the rest    
\usepackage{chngcntr}							  	% Count figures within chapters
\counterwithin{figure}{section} 
\counterwithin{table}{section}
\usepackage{booktabs}							  	% Table formatting
\usepackage{fancyhdr}								% Setting the style for header and footer.
\usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref}					% Clickable links
\usepackage{nameref}								% References with names
\usepackage[parfill]{parskip}						% New line instead of indent for sections
\usepackage{subfig}						 			% Package for putting figures side by side
\usepackage{tcolorbox}								% Create boxes around content
\tcbset{colback=white,arc=0mm}

% Specifying fonts
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Georgia} 
\setsansfont{Arial}
\newfontfamily\footerfont{Georgia}

\usepackage{sectsty}
\sectionfont{\sffamily\fontsize{14}{15}}
\subsectionfont{\sffamily\fontsize{13}{15}}
\subsubsectionfont{\sffamily\fontsize{12}{15}}

% Remove the title and make sure that the text is adjusted
\usepackage{abstract}
\setlength{\absleftindent}{0mm}
\renewcommand{\abstractname}{\vspace{-\baselineskip}}
\renewcommand{\abstractnamefont}{\sffamily\fontsize{14}{15}}
\renewcommand{\abstracttextfont}{\normalfont\fontsize{12}{13}}

% Renaming and setting style of table of contents
\usepackage{tocloft}
\renewcommand*\contentsname{Contents}
\renewcommand*\cfttoctitlefont{\fontsize{16}{0}\bf\sffamily}
\renewcommand\cftsecfont{\fontsize{12}{0}\bf\sffamily}
\renewcommand\cftsecpagefont{\fontsize{12}{0}\bf\sffamily}


% Styling the header and footer
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhf{}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\fancyfoot[R]{\footerfont\thepage}

% Making the command for placing text in random locations
\newcommand\PlaceText[3]{%
\begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay]
\node[outer sep=0pt,inner sep=0pt,anchor=south west] 
  at ([xshift=#1,yshift=-#2]current page.north west) {#3};
\end{tikzpicture}%
}

% Disable hyphenation
\pretolerance=10000
\tolerance=2000 
\emergencystretch=500pt

% Custom toc for cleaner main document
\newcommand{\customtoc}{
        \etocdepthtag.toc{mtchapter}
        \etocsettagdepth{mtchapter}{subsection}
        \etocsettagdepth{mtappendix}{none}
        \newpage
        \thispagestyle{fancy}
        \tableofcontents
        % Fixing a bug where the page number would randomly fail to be right justified.
        \thispagestyle{fancy} 
        \newpage
}