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thesis

• thesis
  • Architecture
  • Conventions
  • Gotchas
  • Key Files
  • Subnodes
• todo
  • Basic structure - take it into account
  • Import and make sense of all references
  • Continue to auto-summarize references continuously

thesis

BGU MSc thesis on the ROLL method (Ranking via Optimized Label Learning). See impl for the implementation project this thesis documents.

Architecture

• main.tex — root document; defines all title/author/supervisor commands, includes all chapters
• Main_pages/ — cover_page, title_page, abstract, acknowledgements, abstract_heb, cover_heb
• content/<chapter>/ — one folder per chapter with its own .tex file
• content/images/ — shared image path (set via \graphicspath)
• bibliography/thesis.bib — references
• bibliography/unsrtnat_adjusted_for_bgu_thesis.bst — custom BGU bibliography style (do not edit)

Conventions

• Thesis metadata (title, author, supervisor, month, year) defined as commands at top of main.tex
• Hebrew title/author/supervisor have he suffix commands (\thesistitlehe, etc.)
• Both English and Hebrew ToC, abstract, and cover pages are required by BGU
• Chapters added via \input{content/<chapter>/<chapter>} with a matching \addtocontents{tocheb} line for the Hebrew ToC
• Build engine: pdflatex (uses \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}, not xelatex)

Gotchas

• Template uses utf8x inputenc, which requires the ucs nix/texlive package
• Hebrew rendering via babel-hebrew (pdflatex approach, not fontspec/xelatex)
• Example images in content/related_work/images/ are from the template — safe to delete
• flake.nix uses rec on the derivation so buildInputs is in scope for PATH export

Key Files

• flake.nix — Nix build; nix build produces result/main.pdf; nix develop for dev shell
• flake.lock — pinned to nixpkgs-unstable as of 2026-06-16
• main.tex — fill in \thesistitle, \thesisauthorname, \thesissupervisername, \thesismonth, \thesisyear

Subnodes

(none yet)

todo

TODO Basic structure - take it into account

TODO Import and make sense of all references

TODO Continue to auto-summarize references continuously