Masters_Thesis/03-cs6513-paper/README.md

CS6513 Paper — Introduction + Mini Literature Review

IEEE conference-format manuscript for CS6513. Source: main.tex.

Build

./paper/build.sh          # run from the repo root

build.sh auto-detects a TeX engine (and picks up MacTeX / TeX Live even if it isn't on your PATH). It tries, in order: latexmk → pdflatex (two passes) → tectonic. Output: paper/main.pdf.

Toolchain

No system TeX install is needed if you use tectonic (what this repo was built with):

brew install tectonic

Tectonic is a single self-contained binary (~20 MB) that downloads the exact TeX packages the document needs from CTAN on first run and caches them.

Alternatives:

• MacTeX (full TeX Live, ~4 GB): brew install --cask mactex-no-gui
• BasicTeX (small, ~100 MB; may need sudo tlmgr install ... for extras)
• Overleaf (zero install): upload/clone this paper/ folder and compile main.tex.

Required LaTeX packages

All standard and bundled with a normal TeX distribution (and auto-fetched by tectonic):

Package	Why
IEEEtran (document class)	IEEE conference format — IEEEtran.cls is committed here so the repo is self-contained
cite	citation handling
amsmath, amssymb, amsfonts	math symbols (μ, ×, →, etc.)
graphicx	figures (none yet)
textcomp	text symbols
xcolor	colour
url	URLs in the bibliography

Notes learned while building

• The first tectonic run needs a network connection — it fetches packages from CTAN. Later builds use the cache and are fast/offline.
• Transient HTTP 429 Too Many Requests from tectonic's package server can interrupt that first build. It's not a document error — just re-run build.sh; tectonic resumes from what it already cached.
• Underfull \hbox (badness ...) warnings are cosmetic — short lines (e.g. bullet lists) that don't fill the justified column. Harmless, and they go away as the draft becomes prose. There are currently no real errors.
• Build artifacts (*.aux, *.log, …) and the compiled main.pdf are git-ignored. Commit the final submission PDF explicitly (git add -f) if you want it tracked.