Thesis Documents

This directory contains all documents related to this master thesis project. The relevant documents are:

• Thesis is the central document for the whole submission document
• Proposal for working on this thesis
• Bibtex database file with all literature that the thesis uses. The database holds additional literature that seemed relevant enough at some stage.
• Various slides for given presentations
• Scientific poster for the poster session that is part of the EPILOG of the Faculty of Informatics. The poster is available at the digital poster session.
• Errata document

Document Processor

Most documents are written using the Madoko scholarly markdown flavor (.mdk file extension). Special thanks to Daan Leijen for creating Madoko. A web editor for Madoko is available at www.madoko.net or it can be installed locally with:

npm install madoko -g

Madoko is able to generate sophisticated HTML versions of scientific documents as well as standard PDF versions through LaTeX. Other files, like the slides and the poster, use LaTeX directly. The Makefile wraps the respective call to the right tool for each target document. Madoko files are generated with:

madoko --pdf thesis.mdk

Graphics

DOT files:

• Graphics are written in the DOT graph description language
• Translated with Graphviz https://graphviz.gitlab.io
• Use dot2graphiz to translate graph files to a more LaTeX look and feel https://dot2tex.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html

dot -Txdot system.dot | dot2tex -f pst > system.tex
dot -Tps task-units.dot > task-units.ps
dot -Tsvg task-units.dot > task-units.svg
dot -Tpdf task-units.dot > task-units.pdf

PDF/PostScript output of dot produces a lot of whitespace margin. Remove with pdfcrop CLI (produces a new file with -crop appended to filename):

pdfcrop task-units.pdf

Online editor: http://www.webgraphviz.com

XML files:

• Create and edited with: draw.io