Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!ox-prg!culhua!Damian.Cugley From: Damian.Cugley@prg.ox.ac.uk (Damian Cugley) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: Theses: a cry for help! Message-ID: Date: 11 Nov 90 21:09:32 GMT References: Sender: news@prg.ox.ac.uk Distribution: comp Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK Lines: 21 In-reply-to: tim@cstr.ed.ac.uk's message of 9 Nov 90 18:17:26 GMT From: Tim Bradshaw Message-Id: > Here at Edinburgh the University recommendations for theses specify > `1.5 to 2' line spacing, and these regulations are enforced. This > means that theses both look nasty and are hard to read (and also that > I spend a lot of time breaking my nice thesis document style!). > Clearly this regulation dates from the days of typewritten theses: > it's just bizarre to take output from something like TeX and damage it > like this. But bureaucrats don't like change do they? It is also *POSSIBLE* that extra linespacing is intended to make sure inserting comments between the lines, in margins etc. is possible... (I agree 100% that for a final document, the extra spacing makes it much less legible and it looks horrid. It's just drafts that might need to be done differently, and they may count submissions as being draft-like.) Damian