Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!murdu!viccol!dougcc From: Douglas.Miller@viccol.edu.au (Douglas Miller) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: Theses: a cry for help! Message-ID: <6481.273eb57e@csv.viccol.edu.au> Date: 12 Nov 90 19:45:17 GMT References: Distribution: comp Organization: Computer Services, Victoria College, Melbourne Lines: 18 In article , tim@cstr.ed.ac.uk (Tim Bradshaw) writes: > 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!). > However it seems at least *possible* that we could get this changed if > we really try. One idea would be to point out that terms like ``double spacing'' are meaningless when applied to typeset text, because ``single'' spacing could be anything --- i.e., the \baselineskip specified by the document format designer. You could try putting it to the authorities that they should specify the exact {\em amount} of leading required (which would presumably depend on point size of the text) --- this would force them to go back to first principles and perhaps make some rules more appropriate for typeset text.