Daniel S. Fowler

I think `openany` applies to chapters. The blank sheets are there to support the printing of the thesis, ensuring the declaration/acknowledgements do not appear on the back of a page....

The _documentclass_ option _abstract_ does something similar, look at the _PhDThesisPSnPDF.cls_ file for `\newenvironment{abstract}` (line 1122). Change the _else_ code to something like this: ``` . . . \else %...

Seems the error does not occur with XeLaTeX, though the `\hbar` looks like `\hslash`. Alternatively, if you comment out `\pdfglyphtounicode{hbar}{0127}` at line 2086 in the file _glyphtounicode.tex_ the error does...

Thanks Your suggestion (`\renewcommand{\hbar}{\mathchar'26\mkern-9mu h}`) did't work in my LaTeX environment (Overleaf), though `\def\hbar{\mathit{^^^^0127}}` did (from https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/448490/hbar-not-displayed-with-fontspec-on-xelatex-lualatex).

The error message is misleading. I think this is not a _phd-thesis-template_, issue. Ensure all packages/files in your toolchain are updated for the newer _biblatex_ release.

There is a conflict between the appendix and babel environments, see [Conflict between appendix, bookmark, hyperref and magyar babel due to utf8 chars](https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/461125/conflict-between-appendix-bookmark-hyperref-and-magyar-babel-due-to-utf8-chars). The answer suggests that the appendix package...

Your question is ambiguous. To simply stop numbering add the alternative action asterisk. I.e., `\chapter*{Conclusions}` instead of `\chapter{Conclusions}`, for a new conclusions chapter, or `\section*{Conclusions}` instead of `\section{Conclusions}` for a...

I think part of the solution is to comment out `\thispagestyle{empty}` at appropriate points in the class file. Have a look at issue #209 where it says: > CUED template...

You'll have to be clearer on what you mean by the first three pages. To prevent the page number appearing on the title page keep `\thispagestyle{empty}` on line 933 of...

The default parskip settings shouldn't affect the title page. Not tried it with changed values. Still, if the title page is overflowing it is fairly easy to adjust the `vspace`...