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From: ken@csis.dit.csiro.au (Ken Yap)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Theses: a cry for help!
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Date: 13 Nov 90 22:44:01 GMT
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There are some enlightened institutions that recognize that standards
established in the bad old days of typewritten copy are not appropriate
for typeset copy. As for UMI, your school's requirements override those
of UMI and the copyright form says so.

Try gentle lobbying. Get your school's Dean of Grad Studies and the
editors on your side. Collect names of enlightened schools to support
your argument.  Get the WP users on your side too. All that your new
guidelines have to specify are some minimum standards for readability.
It shouldn't matter if the student wants to use *TeX or *Word*.