University of Utah LaTeX thesis styles

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This is the master archive site for the definitive versions of University of Utah thesis styles for LaTeX.

The new file uuthesis-2016.sty incorporates 2016-vintage page-dimension changes in the University of Utah thesis requirements. There are no other recent changes in the LaTeX support packages at this site. Use the new file like this: \documentclass[11pt,Chicago]{uuthesis2e} \usepackage{uuthesis-2016} \usepackage{...} \usepackage{graphicx} % for graphics file inclusion support %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% NEW for 2016: signature-less committee/chair approval page with several %%% author-supplied field values: \usepackage{uudissertationapproval} \graduatedean {David B. Kieda} \chairtitle {Professor} \departmentchair {Nicolas Bourbaki} \committeechair {{\'E}variste Galois} \firstreader {Henri Poincar{\'e}} \secondreader {Georg F. B. Riemann} \thirdreader {Herman Weyl} \fourthreader {Karl T. W. Weierstra{\ss}} \submitdate {May 2016} \approvaldepartment {Mathematics} \chairdateapproved {11 Mar 2016} \firstdateapproved {11 Mar 2016} \seconddateapproved {15 Mar 2015} \thirddateapproved {11 Mar 2016} \fourthdateapproved {11 Mar 2016} %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ... \begin{document} \frontmatterformat \titlepage \copyrightpage % unnumbered page i \setcounter{page}{2} % force page counter to ii \dissertationapproval % single-page form with author-supplied values \preface{abstract}{Abstract} % numbered page iii \tableofcontents % unnumbered page iv ... \end{document} For a diagram showing how page layout is specified, see Figure C.3, page 182, of The LaTeX User's Guide and Reference Manual (1994). There are more detailed diagrams here: layout.dvi, layout.pdf, layout.ps, layout.tex.

A new document introduced in Fall 2013, Typesetting and writing hints for theses and dissertations , contains solutions for many problems that students routinely meet during their writing projects. There is also a color PDF version for offline printing and viewing. Despite the last four words of the title, much of the information is generic and applicable to other technical documents. More recently, one of the world's leading English-language newspapers has put online its own advice that may be a convenient reference: The Guardian and Observer style guide. Just be aware of British versus American style issues.

To encourage students to make use of alternate typefaces over the default Computer Modern ones, a new document written in Fall 2015 gives samples of 32 text fonts and 14 typewriter fonts with instructions on how to use them by adding just one or two lines to the preamble of any LaTeX document. Because character widths vary with typeface, changing the document fonts affects all line breaking and page breaking. The choice of typeface is therefore best made early in the document production process, rather than at the end, when you might otherwise have to make further tweaks to address overfull boxes, bad line breaks, and suboptimal page breaks. The complete set of files needed to make that document is available here as an InfoZIP file, and as a subdirectory of files.

Experimental new files

On 2016-03-25, we released a new snapshot, and a new document Guide to 2016 Extensions in LaTeX Typesetting of University of Utah Dissertations and Theses. Visit the new directory here or fetch this InfoZIP bundle. The fixup file is named uuthesis-2016-d.sty, and there is new support, and documentation, for creating one or more indexes for a dissertation or thesis. This version should be used in preference to an earlier snapshot listed below.

On St. Patrick's day 2016, otherwise known as 2016-03-17, we released some experimental files that improve LaTeX-typesetting conformance with the University of Utah Thesis Office style requirements. These files are still subject to change, and may be updated from time to time. Visit the new directory here or fetch this InfoZIP bundle. That directory contains additional BibTeX styles and their associated LaTeX style, plus a new top-level thesis LaTeX file with a clean easy-to-modify layout, and an easy-to-modify Unix Makefile. The uuthesis-2016-b.sty file contains the latest modifications of the venerable thesis class file.

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If you print your thesis from a PDF file, do so with a normal Unix lpr command, if possible. Otherwise, if you print from a PDF viewer, make sure in the printer option panel that page scaling is turned off, because viewers have options to rescale pages to fit by width or height, and may remember those options from run to run. With the page dimensions for 2013 or later, the printed output should have lines that are exactly 6 inches (152.4mm) wide.

This directory tree contains thesis styles for LaTeX 2e to support production of undergraduate and graduate theses and dissertations that conform to the strict formatting requirements of the University of Utah Handbook for Theses and Dissertations . A local copy is available here if that link is broken.

Under no circumstances should these style files be changed by student authors. Instead, create a private style file with your own definitions and extensions that is loaded after the main style file with a \usepackage{} command. Any changes that your private style file makes to standard macros are your own responsibility.

If you have style files of the same names as found in this tree, but with different contents, then they are suspect, and very likely, invalid. To allow checking of your local files against the master archive, here are MD5 checksums of the class and style files in this tree:

d4d9f6f7150ba22807f3f485d48b08ac  honorsthesis/uuhonors.sty
69c5cd69db457d1aed091a735a72154f  latex2e/amssymb.sty
069fa10600e6c75571510d104ec9c3c3  latex2e/amssymbols.sty
931a3257bc24029f54dd0cd90e73732a  latex2e/uuthesis2e.cls
9942dade738a99496696aa1185b2f7bc  layout.dvi
7117cf69e9f35bff5641ec6ba05254d5  layout.pdf
634e022f3acf8b2f8001297c67ff7545  layout.ps
215e8afcabb3fc185ad9495a5ad3a05e  layout.tex
48681690696b218229a3aabf01208428  samplethesis209/auxdefs.sty
4ae45c2909d507ca66647cde8f73f1a0  samplethesis209/diagram.sty
7359faf31332f1a3668e5921316d490f  samplethesis209/lamsarrow.sty
bb9320b0213c47f7f021702fb59a5897  samplethesis209/tgrind.sty
94d6d331f09b9295f9642249652b25f3  samplethesis209/thesis.sty
b82399e91c2260b4f47879fbeb2e6f81  samplethesis209/uuthesis1-8.sty
48681690696b218229a3aabf01208428  samplethesis2e/auxdefs.sty
4ae45c2909d507ca66647cde8f73f1a0  samplethesis2e/diagram.sty
7359faf31332f1a3668e5921316d490f  samplethesis2e/lamsarrow.sty
bb9320b0213c47f7f021702fb59a5897  samplethesis2e/tgrind.sty
94d6d331f09b9295f9642249652b25f3  samplethesis2e/thesis.sty
931a3257bc24029f54dd0cd90e73732a  samplethesis2e/uuthesis2e.cls
95795f3820a1ab1950386dbe9457b038  uudissertationapproval.sty
6d5a00090cd6a005406df24ed33a6ab7  uuthesis-2016.sty

WARNING: LaTeX 2.09 has been obsolete since the publication in 1994 of the second edition of Leslie Lamport's LaTeX: A Document Preparation System: User's Guide and Reference Manual and The LaTeX Companion. In 2004, a highly-recommended second edition of the latter appeared. The old 2.09 styles are preserved for historical interest only; all new theses must use the new 2e styles.

It is recommended that you fetch and unpack one of the archive files in .jar, .tar.bz2, .tar.gz, or .zip format, rather than fetching individual files. That way, you will be sure to have everything, and the important file timestamps will be preserved.

Each of the archive files is digitally signed with a detached .sig signature file. You can verify the authenticity of the archive with either pgp or gpg like this:

% gpg latex2e.tar.gz.sig
...
gpg: Signature made Fri Sep 24 11:02:39 2004 MDT using DSA key ID CB547556
gpg: Good signature from "Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe@math.utah.edu>"

% pgp latex2e.tar.gz.sig
...
Good signature from user "Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe@math.utah.edu>".
Signature made 2004/09/24 01:05 GMT

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