Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!uokmax!munnari.oz.au!sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au!spam!spam.ua.oz.au!wvenable From: wvenable@spam.ua.oz.au (Bill Venables) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Theses Message-ID: Date: 28 Aug 90 04:35:33 GMT Sender: wvenable@spam.ua.oz Organization: Adelaide University. Lines: 25 Is there such a thing as a generic "thesis" LaTeX style, distinct from both "report" and "book"? In this University the thesis regulations still read as they did in the typewriter days (even though noone types theses anymore), and the theses are still "double-spaced one-side-of-the-page only" typographic monstrosities. Morewover the student is required to have the thesis fully bound before the examiners even see it. If any revisions are required, very often they are crudely done or the whole thesis has to be typeset again and rebound. It seems to me that any generic thesis style should have a "draft" version suitable for the examination stage, with plenty of space for examiners' marginal notes, say, and a "final" version for when the process is complete, which may be essentially book style. I would be interested to hear from anyone with an interest in, or experience of, this problem, and of any solutions that might be available. (BTW I know already of the "ucthesis" and "mitthesis" styles, both of which are excellent.) I will summarise email responses if warranted. -- Bill Venables, Dept. of Statistics, | Email: venables@spam.adelaide.edu.au Univ. of Adelaide, South Australia. | Phone: +61 8 228 5412