Index of /CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/toptesi/
TOPtesi bundle version 6.x
Copyright 2008-2025 Claudio Beccari
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This work may be distributed and/or modified under
the conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License,
either version 1.3c of this license or (at your
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and version 1.3c or later is part of all distributions of LaTeX version 2003/12/01 or later.
This work itself and every derived work are subject
to the abovelicence, included the file toptesi.cfg
that may be copied to a different named file and
the copy can be modified at will by the user.
This work has the LPPL maintenance status
"author-maintained".
This work consists of the following files:
toptesi.dtx
toptesi-example.tex
toptesi-example-luatex.tex
toptesi-example-xetex.tex
toptesi-example-con-frontespizio.tex
topfront-example.tex
toptesi-example-sss.tex
toptesi-example-triennale.tex
toptesi-example-dottorale.tex
toptesi-example-magistrale.tex
toptesi-scudo-example.zip
README.txt
toptesi-it.tex
The files derived from the work are the following:
toptesi.cls
toptesi.sty
topcoman.sty
topfront.sty
toptesi.cfg
toptesi.pdf
toptesi-monografia.sty
toptesi-scudo.sty
toptesi-magistrale.sty
toptesi-dottorale.sty
toptesi-sss.sty
toptesi-it.pdf
together with all the *-example-*.pdf derived
from the corresponding *-example-*.tex ones.
The toptesi.dtx file is self extracting and self
documenting; if you run pdflatex on it you get at
the same time the class, the style files, the
toptesi configuration file, plus the English
documented code.
The Italian documentation file is obtained by
running LuaLaTeX on toptesi-it.tex; this
documentation has been completely redone compared
to previous versions. With this compiler the result
is PDF/A-1b compliant. The compilation of this file
requires input of various .pdf files, mostly
obtained by processing the .tex files belonging to
the bundle. It requires also the FAKE logos of
Politecnico di Torino and of its doctoral school.
See below.
The two documentations pdf files, toptesi.pdf and
toptesi-it.pdf, are complementary to one another
and both should be stored in the
doc/latex/toptesi/ folder.
The various files
toptesi-example.tex
toptesi-example-luatex.tex
toptesi-example-xetex.tex
toptesi-example-frontespizio.tex
topfront-example.tex
toptesi-example-sss.tex
toptesi-example-triennale.tex
toptesi-example-magistrale.tex
toptesi-example-dottorale.tex
are examples of the usage of this work; except the
second and third ones, explicitly created to be
used with LuaLaTeX or XeLaTeX respectively; all the
others compile correctly with pdflatex; they may be
used as templates, but in themselves, although part
of this Work, they may be used by the end users
the way they like best, in order to use them as
templates, but the files should not be modified
unless their names are changed.
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The TOPtesi bundle contains everything is needed
to typeset a bachelor, master or PhD thesis in
Italian intermixed with English and viceversa (or
in any other language supported by LaTeX: the
bundle supports multi-language use).
The infix strings may be selected and/or specified
at will by means of a configuration file, so as to
customise the information of the title page to the
requirements of a specific university and a specific
language.
Thanks to its language management, the bundle is
suited formulti-language theses that are more and
more frequent thanks to the double degree programs
of the European Union Erasmus programs or the Life
Long Learning European programs.
Version 6.x is backwards compatible, but it is
completely new; it uses key=value options, and uses
different modules to typeset all types of thesis
supported by the package; it allows to select the
use of the frontespizio package to typeset the title
page in substitution of its standard modules; it
allows a custom setting, to let users typeset their
own title page layout.
As a new feature compared to versions 5.x, among the
various thesis types there is also the one that
Italian students submit to the examining committee
of their final high-school State Exam.
Version 6.4.x is further upgraded in order to
customise header positions and folios. It is also
upgraded to allow compliance with level 2 of the
ISO PDF/A regulations on long term archivability.
Because the filecontents *package* functionalities
have been embedded into the LaTeX *kernel*
environment, in a way backwards compatible with the
previous definition of that environment, the now
obsolete filecontents package functionalities may
still be obtained, but with a different syntax;
therefore a new TOPtesi specific metadata
environment has been defined so as to bypass such
syntax changes.
The new environment Sintassi (provided by the
FramedSyntax.sty package already included in
upgraded complete TeX system installations) is used
to highlight the syntax of some commands,
environments, and some code samples used for special
purposes.
Versions 6.4.x contain some enhancements and
corrections, especially in view of the 2019 Italian
TUG meeting that contained a tutorial on this
bundle. For what concerns PDF/A compliance, the
latest version is compliant withe PDF/A-2b level;
the documentation gives instructions that are up to
date with package pdfx dated July 2024, version
1.6.5. Nevertheless in 2024 a new method was published by the LaTeX Project Team that employs some features of the “Tagging” Project; Nothing is said in this documentation because the new features are still experimental; when such features become stable, TOPtesi will be upgraded.
Versions 6.x derive from previous versions by using
several features of the LaTeX3 language.
Version 5.92 of TOPtesi was intended to be compliant
also with XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX; its documentation
explained also how to obtain PDF/A-1b archivable
files from pdfLaTeX, XeLaTeX, and LuaLaTeX. This
particular functionality was up to date with
respect to package pdfx dated 2016/05/03 v.1.5.8.
Version 5.91 contained some small enhancements and
bug corrections.
Version 5.90 was enhanced with more class options
that allowed TOPtesi to be used with external
packages for typesetting the title page in different styles. It had a completely enhanced and redone Italian documentation file toptesi-it.pdf.
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You might have your valid reasons for not upgrading
your installed TeX system distribution, but in
order to have available some new functionalities,
you might consider upgrading your installation;
otherwise you have to install the whole TOPtesi
bundle by yourself. You can get some help by
carefully reading the Italian documentation file
toptesi-it.
In this case you have to download the toptesi.zip file from a CTAN archive and save it to this folder
(possibly created on purpose):
.../texmf/source/latex/toptesi.
and decompress it.
Then run pdflatex on toptesi.dtx in order to get
the class, style and configuration files (and the
pdf documentation in English) and move
the .tex, .cls, .sty, and .cfg files
(including the example .tex files) to
.../texmf/tex/latex/toptesi/.
Move both pdf files toptesi.pdf and toptesi-it.pdf to .../texmf/doc/latex/toptesi/.
If the mentioned folders do not exist, create them.
For a personal installation, the /texmf folder is
your personal one, rooted in your home directory:
~ on Linux; ~/Library on Mac OSX; on a path with
different names on different Windows systems, all of
them containing in one form or another your login
name; in recent Windows editions your home directory
is
C:\Users\<your login name>.
If you are running a Windows platform change the
slashes into backslashes and prefix all paths with
the drive letter and any other specific prefix that
is actually used in your personal texmf tree.
Remember to refresh the filename database if you
are using a MiKTeX installation!
This operation is not required if you have a TeXLive installation.
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Two fake logos of the "Institute of Technology of
Turin" and its Doctoral School are provided, in
substitution of the legal official ones. They both
have a "FAKE LOGO" watermark so as to be sure they
are not used in place of the official ones. In the
documentation of this bundle they are used as
examples of possible logos, but they do not
represent in any way any official logo. Even the
fake institutional name, the translation
in English of the official Italian one, has nothing
to do with the trademarked one, the only one the
Politecnico of Torino bachelor, master, and PH.D.
students should use for their actual theses; they
have to get the official logos from their Student
Office, or from the official restricted Web site
where only institutional Ph.D. students have access.
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The package is already installed with *complete*
TeXLive, MacTeX or MiKTeX distributions. In this
case you don't need to decompress anything and move
files around; in case of TeX system upgrades your
package manager will do the work for you.
Possibly check if the CTAN repository contains a
newer version and, in case, use your package manager
to upgrade your installation, but remember that you
are not supposed to directly move or change anything
in the TeX system directories.