Lea Verou, PhDJul 27, 2024

My PhD advisor, @karger: “If you do your thesis in Markdown, HTML, and CSS¹ it will be 10x the work!”
Me: “Yes, but it will entail 1/100th of the procrastination!”

Kids, …we were both right. 🥴

¹ as opposed to LaTeX, which is the gold standard in our field.

Show threadLea Verou, PhDJul 27, 2024

Also, I wonder if this may be the first PhD thesis made with @11ty .

@zachleat do you know?

Based on the scarcity of good plugins for citations and cross-references, I wonder if that might be the case.

Hopefully that will change post-defense when I'll have more time to polish & release my code. 😅

Show threadZach LeathermanJul 29, 2024

@leaverou amazing!!

I think https://pieterheyvaert.com/phd/dissertation was another one I’ve found

cc @bobmonsour

Pieter Heyvaert

The personal website of Pieter Heyvaert where you can find all his publications and blog posts.

Show threadLea Verou, PhDJul 29, 2024
@zachleat @bobmonsour I could be wrong, but I think this is a separate export of the content, not how the actual thesis (the PDF) was produced.
Show threadZach LeathermanJul 29, 2024
@leaverou @bobmonsour I think you’re right!
Show threadLea Verou, PhDJul 29, 2024
@zachleat @bobmonsour What I'm trying to do is use the 11ty for the actual printed version I will submit to MIT, using Paged.js for page numbers etc.
Show threadJulie Blanc

@leaverou I'm so glad you're using Paged.js! 😀 I also did a web and print version of my PhD thesis with HTML and CSS (from markdown). I just used Pandoc and a big Make file. Bibliographical references are well supported by Pandoc, in BibTex format → https://phd.julie-blanc.fr/

Another example with Paged.js, @antoinentl used Hugo to deploy his thesis → https://these.quaternum.net/

Composer avec les technologies du web

Thèse de doctorat en ergonomie, Université Paris 8, Vincennes – Saint Denis.

Jul 30, 2024 at 3:24pmWeb
Show threadJulie BlancJul 30, 2024
@leaverou In another context, recently a multi-format catalog from the Louvre used a CMS called Flax (@julientaq @polylogue) which is actually based on 11ty and Paged.js. This might interest you → https://www.robotscooking.com/open-source-powering-the-louvres-latest-digital-catalogue/
Open Source Powering the Louvre's Latest Digital Catalogue

The Louvre Museum has utilized Coko's open-source publishing tools to create an innovative multi-format publication for the works of Antoon Van Dyck.

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