> > 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? >
You were having trouble with the "photo copy" to adjust the margins thing. I was reading the manual for PGF/TikZ last night after the meeting. I think there is a section of that library that would fix your problem. From the manual: The pgfpages package is used to assemble several pages into a single page. It provides commands for assembling several “virtual pages” into a single “physical page.” The idea is that whenever TEX has a page ready for “shipout,” pgfpages interrupts this shipout and instead stores the page to be shipped out in a special box. When enough “virtual pages” have been accumulated in this way, they are scaled down and arranged on a “physical page,” which then really shipped out. This mechanism allows you to create “two page on one page” versions of a document directly inside LATEX without the use of any external programs. However, pgfpages can do quite a lot more than that. You can use it to put logos and watermark on pages, print up to 16 pages on one page, add borders to pages, and more. My guess is that that package would allow you to adjust the placement on the page (left or right by the required amount) after the page has been layed out by TeX. Thus you would maintain the exact same break points while getting the margin requirements you are fighting with.
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