Return-Path: Received: from proof.ergo.cs.cmu.edu by K.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa09754; 20 Nov 89 19:47:42 EST Received: from proof.ergo.cs.cmu.edu by PROOF.ERGO.CS.CMU.EDU id aa07412; 20 Nov 89 19:46:23 EST To: bovik@K.GP.CS.CMU.EDU Reply-to: Tim Freeman cc: Dean.Rubine@K.GP.CS.CMU.EDU Subject: Theses in LaTeX Date: Mon, 20 Nov 89 19:46:19 EST Message-ID: <7410.627612379@PROOF.ERGO.CS.CMU.EDU> From: Timothy.Freeman@PROOF.ERGO.CS.CMU.EDU Here's a post about writing a thesis in LaTeX from the TeX bboard I'd like kept in the Bovik database somewhere: 20-Nov-89 17:13 Dean.Rubine@K.GP.CS.CMU.EDU Theses in LaTeX A number of people were interested in the replies to my question about using LaTeX for theses, so here they are, edited by me. Thanks to everyone who sent me a reply. /afs/cs/user/dandb/thesis/latex.txt contains the unedited replies. There is also a suthesis (presumably Stanford format) in the tex library. All the of the thesis styles seem to be based on the report style (often the document style is "report" with the appropriate "thesis" as an optional argument). I hope these people don't mind me posting their replies. My judgement is that at this point in time, using LaTeX for a thesis is a reasonable thing to do. I still haven't decided among the various ways presented here: --------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Robert.Sansom@CS.CMU.EDU I used LaTeX and was reasonably happy. You can look in /afs/cs/user/rds/th/{thesis,rds-defs,preface,title}.tex to see my elementary formatting and layout. From: David Anderson I have a few thesis styles that you are welcome to look at -- in /afs/andrew/usr/dba/tex/net/ look at mitthesis*, suthesis.sty, and ucthesis.*. You can look at /afs/andrew/usr/dba/tex/mythesis.tex to see what I've been doing. --------------------------------------------------------------------- As for LaTeX on the Mac, there seems to be a choice between Oztex and Textures: --------------------------------------------------------------------- From: David Anderson Oztex is free, and I understand it works well. You can pick it from various file servers on campus -- I've heard the one in Baker has it -- it is also available via anonymous ftp from tank.uchicago.edu. A complete setup takes 6Meg of disk space on your Mac (lack of space is why I haven't bothered with it). A previewer is included, but no text editor (use your own favorite). Textures is bit more of a complete environment, with an editor and integrated previewer, and CMU has a site license that lets you buy it for $100 from the computer store. I believe that both Oztex and can do LaTeX. From: Richard Vernon Ford TeXtures is a commercial product and is on several of the Mac II cx computers in the UCC public cluster.