Add explanation of difference to other templates

[koppor]

@johannesbottcher recommended to have a look at thesis.cls and to include important snippets.

There are many other templates around there is a confusion about templates. Thus, we should provide what other templates we are aware of and clearly state the differences to help readers to decide. A good example for that is the documentation of the listings package, which states the difference to most competitors.

The good things of these templates should be included in ours.

• https://github.com/tudace/tuda_latex_templates - the template of the latex guru @TeXhackse
• https://github.com/ccsl-usp/modelo-latex
• https://github.com/michaellihs/latex-pipeline
• https://github.com/andygrunwald/FOM-LaTeX-Template
• Hagenberg: https://github.com/Digital-Media/HagenbergThesis - very extensive thesis template
• Template by @pospiech https://github.com/pospiech/latex/tree/master/latexthesistemplate/template / http://www.matthiaspospiech.de/latex/vorlagen/allgemein/
• cleanthesis
• classicthesis - beware; this is GPL-licensed: You have to publish the whole LaTeX source of your thesis. Siehe auch https://bitbucket.org/amiede/classicthesis/issues/123/gpl-suitable
• basis
• http://www.ctan.org/pkg/cquthesis
• https://ctan.org/pkg/ku-template
• https://ctan.org/pkg/brandeis-dissertation
• https://ctan.org/pkg/hithesis
• Templates listed at https://ctan.org/topic/dissertation and https://ctan.org/topic/thesis-template
• https://github.com/iswunistuttgart/latex-templates
• https://github.com/MrDongdongLin/xtuthesis - also has minimal examples. With explanations in Chinese.
• Templates listed at https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/326/latex-templates-for-writing-a-thesis
• Markdown-based templates such as https://github.com/tompollard/phd_thesis_markdown.
• https://github.com/UweZiegenhagen/latex-thesis-template by @UweZiegenhagen
• https://github.com/novoid/LaTeX-KOMA-template
• Repositories at https://github.com/johannesbottcher
• https://github.com/skyfrk/dhbw-vs-latex-template
• https://github.com/geritwagner/thesis_seminar_template
• https://github.com/bamos/latex-templates

Maybe add them to https://github.com/latextemplates/latextemplates.github.io/blob/master/index.md#templates-by-others?

Lists of theses

• http://uweziegenhagen.de/?p=1005

[johannesbottcher]

No, not at all. I was referring to the Thesis template from Sunil Patel and i was ironic. See why.

The class linked on CTAN is 20 years! old, much has been done in the meantime.

[koppor]

OK, I updated the description of the issue. - I really wondered why you recommended that, but who knows: sometimes old code is good 😇

[johannesbottcher]

So far, there are three template at the very top. Personally, i cannot recommend any of them.