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📄 AIRS Thesis v2

APA 7th Edition Compliant Build System

Pandoc XeLaTeX Mermaid APA 7

Modern Pandoc/XeLaTeX build system for the AI Readiness Scale dissertation

✨ Features

Feature Description
📑 APA 7 Formatting Running headers, figure/table captions, double spacing, 1" margins
📖 Smart Pagination Section breaks, widow/orphan control, list grouping
📊 Mermaid Diagrams Auto-extraction and rendering from markdown code blocks
📝 Modular Front Matter Separate files for title, approval, abstract, etc.
🔢 Page Numbering Roman numerals (front matter) → Arabic (chapters)
👁️ Watch Mode Auto-rebuild on file changes

📁 Structure

thesis-v2/
├── manuscript/
│   ├── front-matter/        # 00_title.md through 06_toc_setup.md
│   ├── chapters/            # 01-06 chapter files
│   └── back-matter/         # references.md, appendices.md
├── figures/                 # PNG figures from analysis scripts
├── references/
│   ├── bibliography.bib     # 93 BibTeX references
│   └── apa-7th-edition.csl  # Citation style
├── output/                  # Generated PDF + rendered diagrams
├── meta.yaml                # Thesis metadata
└── build.ps1                # PowerShell build script

🚀 Quick Start

Prerequisites

Tool Version Install
Pandoc 2.19+ pandoc.org
XeLaTeX Latest MiKTeX or TeX Live
Mermaid CLI Latest npm install -g @mermaid-js/mermaid-cli

Build Commands

.\build.ps1                    # Build thesis PDF
.\build.ps1 -Open              # Build and open PDF
.\build.ps1 -Target draft      # Draft with watermark
.\build.ps1 -Target watch      # Auto-rebuild on changes
.\build.ps1 -Target validate   # Check sources
.\build.ps1 -Target clean      # Remove output

📋 APA 7 Compliance

Element Implementation
Running header Short title (left), page number (right)
Figure captions Figure X. Title in italics (below)
Table captions Table X. Title in italics (above)
Font Times New Roman, 12pt
Spacing Double (single in abstract and tables)
Margins 1 inch all sides
Page numbers Roman (i hidden, ii-vi shown, vii+ TOC), Arabic (1+ body)

📤 Output

File Description
output/CORREA_AIRS_Dissertation FINAL.pdf Defended dissertation, 186 pages, 2.85 MB
output/CORREA_AIRS_Dissertation.docx Word version (2.08 MB)
output/mermaid/*.png Rendered diagrams

v3.0 · Defended April 2026 · DBA conferred by Touro University Worldwide