preamble.tex

%%%%% General packages & Utilities

% Allow for German "Umlaute"
% Note that for this to work, all files containing Umlaute must be saved in the UTF-8 file format!
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

% Tables
\usepackage{booktabs}

% Make todo notes in the thesis.
% Simply change the status to "final" to suppress printing of the notes and their list.
\usepackage[status=draft]{fixme}

% Useful in defining custom shortcut commands
\usepackage{xspace}

% Load english and german language hyphenation and options.
% The language put last here is selected as the main language for the document,
% specifying keywords such as Table of Contents / Inhaltsverzeichnis, etc.
\usepackage[ngerman, english]{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}




%%%%% Style

% Font type
\usepackage{lmodern}

% Line spacing
\usepackage{setspace}
%\singlespacing
\onehalfspacing
%\doublespacing




%%%%% Graphics packages

\usepackage{graphicx}

%% add subfolder containing figures to the graphics path
\graphicspath{{figures/}}

% Subfigures
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{subcaption}

% Powerful package for programmatically producing nice vector graphics
\usepackage{tikz}

% Package for easily drawing electrical circuits (uses tikz)
\usepackage[european]{circuitikz}

% Package for creating plots in latex using tikz internally
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\pgfplotsset{compat=1.11}
\usepgfplotslibrary{units}




%%%%% Maths and computer science packages

\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsthm}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{mathtools}

% introduce new type of theorems (uses amsthm package)
\newtheorem{lemma}{Lemma}

% Improvement of \left and \right due to 
% http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/2607/spacing-around-left-and-right
\usepackage{mleftright}

% Produce pseudo code sections
% See http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/230789/64293 for a discussion of the various
% packages available for this task.
\usepackage{algorithm}
\usepackage{algpseudocode}

% Correctly display SI units
\usepackage{siunitx}




%%%%% Referencing, Glossary, Bibliography

% Allow for cross-referencing other parts of this documents
% -- hidelinks prevents ugly red boxes around clickable items. Alternatively, these could be styled differently.
% -- pdfusetitle adds author and title information to meta data
\usepackage[hidelinks, pdfusetitle]{hyperref}

% Easier cross-referencing, using the \cref and \Cref commands
\usepackage{cleveref}

% Glossaries must be loaded after hyperref
\usepackage[style = long, nolist, acronym, nonumberlist, nopostdot, toc]{glossaries}
\newglossary{symbols}{sym}{sbl}{List of Mathematical Symbols}
\makenoidxglossaries

% Bibliography
\usepackage[backend=biber, style=ieee, sorting=nyt]{biblatex}
% Change the separator between title and subtitle of a book from comma to colon
\renewcommand{\subtitlepunct}{\addcolon\addspace}
% Make the space between author names and actual reference in the \textcite
% command non-breakable.
\renewcommand\namelabeldelim{\addnbspace}
\addbibresource{references.bib}

% Add lines to table of contents for list of figures, tables, etc. and for bibliography.
% Alternatively (e.g. when not using a KOMA document class), this could be achieved by 
% adding
%     \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{List of Figures}
% before \listoffigures, and similarly for the others.
\KOMAoptions{
  listof=totoc,
  bibliography=totoc
}




%%%%% Abbreviations and macros

% Order must be first macros then glossary, since the latter uses the former
\input{macros}
\loadglsentries{glossary}



%%%%% Emacs-related stuff
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%%% mode: latex
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