Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!aipna!cstr!tim From: tim@cstr.ed.ac.uk (Tim Bradshaw) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: Theses: a cry for help! Message-ID: Date: 13 Nov 90 13:48:38 GMT References: Sender: news@aipna.ed.ac.uk Distribution: comp Organization: CSTR, University of Edinburgh Lines: 24 In-reply-to: wvenable@spam.ua.oz.au's message of 12 Nov 90 13:11:05 GMT >>>>> On 12 Nov 90 13:11:05 GMT, wvenable@spam.ua.oz.au (Bill Venables) said: > Most of the flaws in the present typical regulations seem to come from the > implicit assumption that it will only be economically feasible to produce > *one* master copy, as was indeed the case once whey you actually had to > type the damn thing yourself. Nowdays separate rules should apply for > draft and final copies, but what actually happens is typically an ugly > compromise between the two. Although I actually more-or-less agree with this I could play the devil's advocate: Producing two different versions of a thesis is not *that* simple. LaTeX's extreme deficiency in positioning floating objects & page make-up generally may make reformatting something a fairly non-trivial exercise if there are a lot of floats around. I also don't really see *why* a draft should be double-spaced: I've spent plenty of time marking corrections on non-double-spaced proofs & it's not *that* hard, unless the corrections are dense in the text in which case submitting it is probably premature... --tim Tim Bradshaw. Internet: tim%ed.cstr@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk UUCP: ...!uunet!mcvax!ukc!cstr!tim JANET: tim@uk.ac.ed.cstr "...wizzards & inchanters..."