novathesis Files

v8.3.0 — Stork: Flying International (2026-08-29)

What's new

• New school: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (other/huberlin) — cover, logo and accent colour modeled on the official title-page sample, supporting every doctype/language the template already knows. Select it with \ntsetup{school=other/huberlin}. Its cover is also the only one that prints the author's date/place of birth, via the new \SetAuthorBirthDate*/\SetAuthorBirthPlace* commands (both are no-ops on every other school).
• \ntsetup{print/appendixname=true} prefixes "Appendix"/"Annex" to the chapter number in appendix/annex chapter headings, not just in the PDF bookmarks (which already showed it). Each bundled chapter style places the label wherever its own layout wants it — e.g. before the vertical bar in bar, on its own line above the number in ist/vz34 — so the option looks native to whichever style is active rather than just being tacked on.
• \ntsetup{listof/skip={...}} turns off individual "list of ..." entries (figures, tables, algorithms, listings, or any custom one) without commenting out their \ntaddlistof line in 0-Config/6_list_of.tex. glossaries is accepted too, as a friendlier spelling of \ntsetup{print/glossaries=false}.
• Chapter styles showcase, a demo chapter (3-BackMatter/app-chapter-styles-showcase.tex, commented out by default in 0-Config/4_files.tex) that cycles through every bundled chapter style and every standard memoir chapter style, one short chapter each, so they can be compared side by side before picking one with style/chapter.
• \AddValidDegree{key}{doctypes} / \ValidateDegree{u}{s}{d}, a \AddValidProcessor/\ValidateLtxProcessor-shaped pair of macros for school .clo files: a school (or one of its programme-specific sub-schools, like nova/fct/cbbi or nova/fct/di-adc) can now declare which doctypes it actually offers, and picking a doctype it doesn't errors clearly instead of silently producing a mismatched cover. phd also covers phdplan/phdprop, msc also covers mscplan (proposal/plan phases of the same degree, not separate programmes needing their own declaration), and plain is never restricted anywhere. Wired up for every school with a real per-doctype restriction in .Build/schools.conf (32 .clo files); schools with no declared restriction remain unrestricted, as before.

What was fixed

• The school comment block in 0-Config/1_novathesis.tex was stale: ulisboa/ff (renamed to ulisboa/fful in v8.2.0) was never updated there, and several nova/fct colour variants (blue, brown, green, plain, red) and the bare nova/itqb id were missing entirely.