novathesis
14 November 2026 · Ler em português

The template now opens in letx

letx hosts novathesis and compiles it — the first route into the template that is free and one click at the same time.

letx now carries novathesis, and compiles it.

That is a short sentence, so here is what makes it worth a post. Until now the browser routes into the template came in two kinds, and each one asked something of you:

  • Overleaf and Inscrive import a school's repository in a single click — and then will not compile it without a paid plan. The template does not fit in the 20 seconds Overleaf's free plan allows.
  • ScienHub is free, but cannot import from a link, so you download your school's ZIP and upload it into an empty project by hand.

letx is the first that is both. It is free, it opens the template in one click, it compiles, and the only thing it asks for is an account.

One thing to set yourself

The project letx keeps is the general template, not your school's repository. So the one step the other one-click routes do for you is yours here: open 0-Config/1_novathesis.tex and name your school.

\ntsetup{school=nova/fct}

You do not have to go looking for the id. On Find your school, every row now has a letx button, and the box it opens spells out the exact line for that school — including the awkward ones, where the id is not simply the repository name with the dashes turned into slashes.

Do not take the ZIP there

The usual advice for a service that cannot import from a link — download the ZIP, upload it, set the main document — is precisely the thing that does not work on letx. The template needed adapting to build on their system, and what they adapted is the project behind that one link. A ZIP you upload yourself will not compile.

So that link is the way in, and the copy behind it is theirs to keep current: it can sit behind the latest release. If you need something that landed in the template last week, build locally or take your school's repository to one of the other services.

Thanks

The porting work was done at letx by Shihab Shahriar, who made the template build on their system and keeps it there free of charge. The other two names in our acknowledgements are there for accounts they lent us; this one is there for work.

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