Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!jarthur!dhosek
From: dhosek@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (D.A. Hosek)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Double spaced LaTeX
Message-ID: <2576@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 23 Oct 89 01:55:51 GMT
References: <10960@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <2527@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> <11021@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Reply-To: dhosek@jarthur.UUCP (D.A. Hosek)
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA
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In article <11021@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> mrwittma@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Martin R. Wittmann) writes:
>In article <2527@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> dhosek@jarthur.UUCP (Don Hosek) writes:
>>Ideally, you should have a document style which adjusts assorted values
>>appropriately for double spacing (doublespace.sty is _not_ a reasonable
>>solution for all but the simplest of documents). Not only should environments
>>like quote and quotation be modified but also spacing in lists &c. should
>>also be changed.
>OK, do you (Don) or anyone else have a good doublespaced LaTeX format?
>I know that may seem like an oxymoron, but I am forced to doublespace my
>thesis, and I would indeed like to "do it right".
>
>As a (much less perferred) alternative, does anyone know of a reference
>on typesetting that specifically deals with attractive doublespaced
>layouts?

Well, there are several thesis styles in existence at this point: Stanford, 
MIT, UC (whichever C that might be), and possibly others. You probably will 
want to look at those to see what they're like and use those as a basis.
Since most thesis-requiring institutions have rather stringent requirements
for the appearance of their thesis (some sort of anal-retentive thing, I
believe), you will need to create a custom thesis style for your thesis
anyway. 

The above-mentioned thesis styles are available from sun.soe.clarkson.edu
in the directory pub/latex-style or from hmcvax.claremont.edu in the 
directory TeX_Root:[INPUTS.LATEX-CONTRIB]

If you run into any problems, feel free to post questions here and (depending
on my time constraints), I'll try to answer them. The more people know about
creating good LaTeX styles, the better of LaTeX users in general will be.

-dh

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