# PidI Thesis LaTeX Template

This template follows the specs:
- A4, margins: left/top **3 cm**, right/bottom **2.5 cm**.
- Page numbers bottom-center.
- Font: **Times Newer Roman 12 pt** (`times` class option, default).
- Line spacing **1.3**, justified text, paragraph spacing **6 pt**, emphasis **bold**.
- `\emph{}` is mapped to bold.

## File name for submission

`<Nachname> PidI 3 <Kurzform des Titels>.pdf`

## Build

```sh
direnv allow      # einmalig — setzt Nix-Umgebung auf
latexmk           # baut das PDF (LuaLaTeX + Biber, Ausgabe nach out/)
latexmk -c        # aufräumen
```

Requires the Nix shell (`shell.nix`) — provides TeX Live, `latexmk`, `mermaid-cli`,
and Times Newer Roman (fonts are installed into `~/.local/share/fonts/` by the shell hook).

`minted` code listings require shell escape; `latexmk` handles this automatically via
`$pdf_mode = 4`.

## Rendering Mermaid diagrams

```sh
# render a single diagram
mmdc -i figures/diagrams/system-context.mmd -o figures/diagrams/system-context.pdf

# render all diagrams at once
for f in figures/diagrams/*.mmd; do
  mmdc -i "$f" -o "${f%.mmd}.pdf"
done
```

Render before calling `latexmk` whenever a `.mmd` file changes. The generated `.pdf`
files are gitignored via `out` (only `out/` is ignored, so diagrams in `figures/` are
**not** ignored — commit them).

## Structure

```
main.tex                entry point: metadata + \input all chapters
pidi-thesis.cls         enforces the complete layout
frontmatter/            usage-of-ai, abstract, acknowledgments
chapters/<part>/*.tex   one file per \section
appendix/               appendix.tex bundles tables/diagrams/screenshots/code
figures/code/           code excerpts as real files (no inline code in appendix)
figures/diagrams/       *.mmd source + rendered *.pdf
figures/screenshots/    screenshots
figures/worksimple/     company logos
figures/itc/            ITC logo
references.bib          biblatex/biber sources
```