Joshua Draper wrote: > > I wish I could go to this presentation. I am a long-time LaTeX user. > It might be nice to point out that there are several style/classes for > thesis/dissertation at BYU. I got my M.S. in civil engineering and > used LaTex for my thesis. In the process I modified an existing BYU > thesis to match the CE department guidelines as of 2007. It is > available on the CE Graduate Seminar website > http://frontpage.et.byu.edu/ce691/ > . >
For those who are looking at using LaTeX, etc., for MS theses and PHD Dissertations, you should be aware that BYU Grad Studies just changed their formatting guidelines. And there's apparently no overlap where they'll accept both the new and old standards. They'll provide you with a MS Word "template" for you to copy-and-paste into, but that's the extent of their help. And most departments' support is about the same. It's mostly minor things like margins, contents of title pages, having a keywords section at the footer of the first page of the abstract, etc. This isn't meant to dissuade anyone from using LaTeX or anything. On the contrary, I highly recommend it. At the moment, I'm finishing my MS thesis, using Chris Monson's byumsphd template (see http://www.bouncingchairs.net/oss/latex.html, and http://code.google.com/p/latex-byu-thesis/), but I'm going to have to patch it a bit to conform to the new guidelines. Of course I'll send the patches back to Chris, since he's been so good to work with on this kind of thing before. I only got a copy of the new standards from my department secretary yesterday, even though they've officially been in place since early September. Apparently there's some stuff that each department gets to decide, and there were some inconsistencies between the example template, and the document itself. Fun, huh? Just something to be aware of. Lloyd -- Lloyd Brown Systems Administrator Fulton Supercomputing Lab Brigham Young University http://marylou.byu.edu -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
