umat-thesislisted

Write, format, and check UMaT (University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa) theses, dissertations and BSc/MSc/MPhil/PhD project reports in LaTeX, per the official "Format for the Presentation of Theses and Project Reports" (May 2011). Use when scaffolding a new UMaT thesis, writing or editing chapters, fixing title/declaration/abstract front matter, numbering headings, tables, figures or equations, formatting Harvard citations and the reference list, choosing tenses/units/numerals, or auditing a draft before submission. Triggers on "UMaT", "Tarkwa thesis", "final year project report", "thesis format", "project report format", "Harvard referencing UMaT".
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# UMaT Thesis (LaTeX) Authoritative formatting rules come from UMaT's *Format for the Presentation of Theses and Project Reports* (May 2011). This skill encodes them as a LaTeX class plus reference material. The word "thesis" below covers theses, dissertations and project reports alike. ## Ground rules 1. **The class file is the single source of truth for layout.** Never hand-tune margins, fonts, spacing, or heading formats in a chapter file. If layout is wrong, fix `umatthesis.cls` — otherwise the document drifts out of spec chapter by chapter. 2. **Never invent a rule.** If the guide is silent on something (e.g. how to typeset an algorithm), say so and pick a defensible convention, don't present it as UMaT policy. 3. **Content files stay semantic.** Chapters contain `\section`, `\caption`, `\label`, `\autoref`, `\parencite` — not `\vspace`, `\Large`, `\hspace*`, or manual numbering. ## Workflow ### Starting a new thesis 1. Copy `assets/` into the target directory (keep the tree: `main.tex`, `umatthesis.cls`, `umatharvard.tex`, `front/`, `chapters/`, `references.bib`). 2. Fill the metadata block at the top of `main.tex` (title, author, degree, faculty, department, supervisors, month/year). The class builds the title page from these. 3. Build with **XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX + Biber** (pdfLaTeX works too — see `assets/README.md`). ### Writing or editing a chapter Read `references/structure.md` for what belongs in each chapter, then `references/style-guide.md