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

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

# render a single diagram
mmdc -f -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 -f -i "$f" -o "${f%.mmd}.pdf"
done

-f (--pdfFit) is mandatory: without it mmdc writes the chart onto a full US-Letter page, so \includegraphics[width=\textwidth] scales all that surrounding whitespace up and a small diagram eats a whole A4 page.

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