I'm writing my thesis with bookdown. But the bookdown format doesn't suit that of my university's requirement. I tried various solutions provided in twerking the YAML metadata content, yet not able to satisfy the needed requirement.
I further read about the possibility of using a LaTeX template to override the pandoc template in bookdown. I obtain my university's LaTeX template and its' .sty file and followed the discussions here: bookdown with specific latex template. But I get the error message: ! LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}
Below is the YAML metadata in my index file:
---
title: "Role of Public Expenditure"
subtitle:
- "By"
- "Blaise Saanuo"
- "(BSc. Economics & Business Administration, Management)"
author:
- "A thesis submitted to the Department of Accounting and Finance, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award degree of"
- "MASTER OF PHILOSOPHY IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION"
- "[FINANCE]"
date: "June, 2020"
output:
bookdown::gitbook:
css: style.css
split_by: chapter
config:
toc:
collapse: section
before: |
<li><a href="...">My MPhil Thesis Report</a></li>
<li><a href="...">Blaise Boya Kuubetertii Saanuo</a></li>
after: |
<li><a href="...">Proudly published with bookdown</a></li>
toolbar:
position: fixed
search: yes
download: no
edit: no
fontsettings:
theme: white
family: sans
size: 2
sharing:
facebook: yes
twitter: yes
github: yes
all: false
bookdown::pdf_book:
includes:
in_header: preamble.tex
template: null
keep_tex: yes
latex_engine: xelatex
citation_package: none
pandoc_args: --top-level-division=chapter
mainfont: "Times New Roman"
fontsize: 12pt
papersize: a4
linestretch: 1.5
toc: true
toc-depth: 3
lof: True
lot: True
site: bookdown::bookdown_site
documentclass: book
classoption: knustthesis.tex
bibliography: ["book.bib", "packages.bib"]
csl: harvard-educational-review.csl
link-citations: yes
geometry: "left=4cm, right=2.5cm, top=2.5cm, bottom=2.5cm"
---
The content of my university's LaTeX template is stored in the file knustthesis.tex, which I set as my classoption in the YAML metadata. Below is the content:
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt, oneside]{book}
\usepackage{knustthesis}
\begin{document}
\include{titlepage}
\frontmatter
%\pagenumbering{roman}
\include{A1-declaration}
\include{A2-dedication}
\include{A3-acknowledgement}
\include{A4-abstract}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Declaration}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Dedication}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Acknowledgement}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Abstract}
\tableofcontents
\newpage
\listoftables
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{List of Tables}
\newpage
\listoffigures
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{List of Figures}
\mainmatter
\include{01-intro}
\include{02-literature}
\include{03-method}
\include{04-application}
\include{05-summary}
%\include{ref}
\backmatter
\bibliographystyle{harvard-educational-review}
\bibliography{reference}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{References}
\include{07-appendices}
\end{document}
The content of the .sty file are as below:
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage[left=4.00cm, right=2.50cm, top=2.50cm, bottom=2.50cm]{geometry}
\newtheorem{definition}{Definition}
\newtheorem{example}{Example}[section]
\newtheorem{theorem}{Theorem}[section]
\usepackage{enumerate}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{placeins}
\setlength{\parindent}{1.5cm}
\pagestyle{plain}
\usepackage{tocloft}
\usepackage{setspace, latexsym}
\doublespacing
\usepackage[round]{natbib}
%\bibpunct{(}{)}{;}{a}{,}{,}
\renewcommand{\chaptername}{CHAPTER}{\Large}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\titleformat{\chapter}[display]
{\normalfont\Large\bfseries\centering\Numberstring{section}}{\chaptertitlename\ \thechapter}{20pt}{\Large}
\titlespacing*{\chapter}{0pt}{0pt}{0em}
\renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{1}
\renewcommand{\cftchapleader}{\cftdotfill{\cftdotsep}}
\renewcommand{\bibname}{REFERENCES}
Yihui recommended I use remotes::install_github('rstudio/rmarkdown') but it did not help.
Would be very much glad if I could be helped to replace the pandoc template with that of my university's LaTeX template. Thank you in advance for your aid.
