CTAN update: mitthesis
Date: November 3, 2025 12:17:50 PM CET
John H. Lienhard submitted an update to the
mitthesis
package.
Version number: 1.21 2025-11-02
License type: mit
Summary description: A LaTeX template for an MIT thesis
Announcement text:
The mitthesis class formats an MIT thesis or dissertation according to the current requirements of the MIT Libraries. This template is appropriate for MIT theses of all types. It can be adapted for other institutions, if desired. This update introduces an automatically generated page listing the thesis committee members, which will appear if one or more \Reader{name}{title}{dept} commands are present. The \Supervisor{name}{title}[Department] command now includes the optional third argument, which is necessary for the committee members page. At a technical level, this update extends support for tagged PDF (UA-2 and A-4F). The class now allows a css style file to be attached for better html rendering. The examples directory of this distribution includes many sample PDF files that are compliant with UA-2, A-4F, and WTPDF-1 and which render well in html (e.g., at ngpgf.com). Additionally, the internal expl3 code has been heavily edited, particularly for syntactical compliance. TeX Live 2022, or later distributions, are now required.
This package is located at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/mitthesis More information is at https://www.ctan.org/pkg/mitthesis
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Erik Braun
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The mitthesis class formats an MIT thesis or dissertation according to the current requirements of the MIT Libraries. This template is appropriate for MIT theses of all types. It can be adapted for other institutions, if desired. This update introduces an automatically generated page listing the thesis committee members, which will appear if one or more \Reader{name}{title}{dept} commands are present. The \Supervisor{name}{title}[Department] command now includes the optional third argument, which is necessary for the committee members page. At a technical level, this update extends support for tagged PDF (UA-2 and A-4F). The class now allows a css style file to be attached for better html rendering. The examples directory of this distribution includes many sample PDF files that are compliant with UA-2, A-4F, and WTPDF-1 and which render well in html (e.g., at ngpgf.com). Additionally, the internal expl3 code has been heavily edited, particularly for syntactical compliance. TeX Live 2022, or later distributions, are now required.
This package is located at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/mitthesis More information is at https://www.ctan.org/pkg/mitthesis
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Erik Braun
CTAN is run entirely by volunteers and supported by TeX user groups. Please join a user group or donate to one, see https://ctan.org/lugs
mitthesis – A LaTeX template for an MIT thesis
This class provides a LaTeX template for an MIT thesis or dissertation formatted according to the requirements of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries (as posted in 2025): https://libraries.mit.edu/distinctive-collections/thesis-specs/
This template is appropriate for an MIT thesis or MIT dissertation of any type.
This template works with either pdfLaTeX or LuaLaTeX.
The bibliography may be prepared with biblatex/biber.
The class requires TeX Live 2022 or later distributions.
This template replaces the older version of mitthesis.cls, which was first composed in the 1980s.
| Package | mitthesis |
| Version | 1.21 2025-11-02 |
| Copyright | 2024–2025 John Lienhard |
| Maintainer | John H. Lienhard |