News | João Lourenço

Chart or table?

Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A piece I wrote in 2016 on the old blog, revisited ten years on — with the charts redrawn, and what I would put differently today. Read the full post on the novathesis blog.

A thousand stars

Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The novathesis repository has passed a thousand stars on GitHub — a good moment to look at what the number is actually made of. Read the full post on the novathesis blog.

Choosing which "list of…" gets printed

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

One option turns off the List of Tables, Listings or Algorithms — without editing the configuration file that registers them. Read the full post on the novathesis blog.

novathesis 8.3.0 — Stork: Flying International

Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The template leaves Portugal for the first time, with Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, plus appendix labels, a way to skip individual lists, and a chapter-styles showcase. Read the full post on the novathesis blog.

novathesis 8.2.0 — Hummingbird: Travelling Light

Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A new school — Faculdade de Farmácia da Universidade de Lisboa — a build option to cap the PDF size, and a fix for AMS symbols under pdfLaTeX. Read the full post on the novathesis blog.

novathesis 8.1.0 — Peacock: New Plumage

Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The template is renamed to novathesis, gains a proper colophon page, and drops its last external dependency. Read the full post on the novathesis blog.

novathesis 8.0.0 — Swallow: Migration Season

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Glossaries move to bib2gls — a migration every existing document needs — and pdfLaTeX builds get about three times faster. Read the full post on the novathesis blog.

novathesis 7.10 — Chinese abstracts, and ISEL

Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Abstracts in Simplified and Traditional Chinese, support for IPL/ISEL, and automated integrity statements for NOVA FCSH. Read the full post on the novathesis blog.

novathesis 7.7 and 7.8 — Declaring AI use, and three more ULisboa schools

Mon, 22 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

A formal AI-usage declaration for your thesis, support for FCUL, IST and ISEG, and a new spine design. Read the full post on the novathesis blog.

novathesis 7.6 — Sustainable Development Goals, and seven new languages

Wed, 26 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

SDG icons on the abstract page, seven more languages for covers and fixed strings, and the Palatino font styles. Read the full post on the novathesis blog.

Appointed Co-Director of UNINOVA

Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

João Lourenço was appointed Co-Director of UNINOVA — Institute for the Development of New Technologies.