TeX Template of Physical Standards for Theses & Dissertations for College of William & Mary, Arts & Sciences
This directory contains a collection of template files that can be used with LaTeX to produce a PhD dissertation that conforms pretty closely to the W&M "Physical Standards for Theses & Dissertations".
http://www.wm.edu/as/graduate/studentresources/thesis-dissertations/physicalstandards/index.php
The department is indebted to Rance Necaise, who contributed the files from which these files were derived. Rance received his PhD from the department in August of 1998. -- William L. Bynum
Updated 9/04 to conform to Arts and Science Graduate Writer's Guide of Nov. 2003. Your milege may vary. -- Bob Matthews == rem
Updated 07/13 to conform to Arts and Science standards of Oct. 2012, with help from Andrew Pyles -- Ruth
Modifications to comply with Physical Standards set on 08/13/2015
Updated 06/16 to conform to the new William and Mary physical standards and submission system online with ProQuest. -- Ed Novak
- Shanhe Yi
Committed with the physical standards set on May 2018. Refactored the wmthesis class to make it easier to understand and modify. Maintain the first Github repository. -- Shanhe Yi
Updated 11/20 to compile in Overleaf and meet current standards
Updated 2/24 to include branding change from "College of William & Mary" > to "William & Mary". >Minor changes based on recommendations from OGS on physical standards.
The files used to produce the thesis.pdf file are
./thesis.tex the top-level LaTeX file
./structure.tex the structure of the thesis
./Makefile can be used to compile to a PDF, either
with or without also compiling the bibtex,
as well as cleaning out unnecessary files
and creating a zipped backup
./acknowledge.tex the acknowledgements
./abstract.tex the abstract of the thesis
./introduction.tex the introduction chapter of the thesis
./conclusion.tex the conclusion chapter of the thesis
./proj1-3 subfolders the 1st-3rd chapters of the thesis
./vita.tex the student's vita (optional, 2018)
./thesis.bib the file that BiBTeX uses to create thesis.bbl
(see Lamport's LaTeX book)
./wmthesis.cls defines the wmthesis class
./wmchapter.sty used by ./stcy/wmthesis.cls to set the top
margin at the beginning of each chapter
./wmbib.bst the BiBTeX style file used to create the
bibiliography
(see Lamport's LaTeX book)
./signed_approval_page.pdf the dummy signed approval page, replace it with your scan copy
./uarial.sty the style file for arial font
To compile the LaTeX files and the bibliography, type "make" on the command
line.
To compile just the LaTeX files, type make latex , make pdflatex or make xelatex.
If you are writing a thesis other than a dissertation, adding thesis to the document class option
\documentclass[11pt, draft, thesis]{wmthesis}Adding proposal, draft, or final based on your pace.
\documentclass[11pt, proposal]{wmthesis}
% with no approval, acknowledge, dedicate pages.\documentclass[11pt, draft]{wmthesis}
% has all required pages and a blank approval page.\documentclass[11pt, final]{wmthesis}
% includes all required pages.
% It will also replace the blank approval pages with a signed pdf
% - rename your scann copy as 'signed_approval_page.pdf'.Feel free to contact the contributors or open an issue if any you have any questions regarding the use of these files. And you are very welcomed for PULL REQUEST. Let's combine efforts - long live this template !
According to the latest feedback from Office of Graduate Studies, Arts and Sciences, accepted font is either Arial or Computer Modern.
Given that Arial is a commericial font, not available to all platforms (e.g., Linux), we recommand
to use Computer Modern (which is defined as default in wmthesis.cls).
However, you can follow the instrcutures below to setup Arial if you like to use Arial font for you thesis/dissertation.
If you insist on usingf Arial font, depends on you are using pdflatex, or latex, or xelatex, and the platforms, there are different ways to install arial fonts, we list a few here and expect pull request to this repo for latest methods to get the Arial font.
This method shows font as A030 (tested in edit mode of PDFExpert), but it is Arial indeed.
Might make this method less favored. Someone using this method needs to get consent from the office lady.
On Mac OS, you can install MacTex to get the Tex environment.
Add fonts using the following commands:
curl --remote-name https://www.tug.org/fonts/getnonfreefonts/install-getnonfreefonts
sudo texlua install-getnonfreefonts
sudo getnonfreefonts --sys -aIn you thesis.tex, put
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{uarial}
\renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault}Then, in your Makefile, make sure
latex:
latex thesis
bibtex thesis
latex thesis
latex thesis
dvips thesis.dvi
ps2pdf thesis.psor
pdflatex:
pdflatex thesis
bibtex thesis
pdflatex thesis
pdflatex thesisis uncommented
then make latex or make pdflatexto compile the latex.
This method shows font as Arial (tested in edit mode of PDFExpert).
Since Mac/Win has the TrueType Arial font installed. You can using xelatex or lualatex to do this.
in you thesis.tex, put
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Arial}then, in your Makefile, make sure
xelatex:
xelatex thesis
bibtex thesis
xelatex thesis
xelatex thesisis uncommented
then make xelatex to compile the latex.
Modifications to comply with Physical Standards set on 08/13/2015 done by David T. Nguyen PhD, February 2016 Topic: Enhancing Mobile Device System Using Information from Users and Upper Layers Use PDF figures (for some reason EPS figures are not displayed correctly, you can use
epspdf myfigure.epsto convert)
Compiling in Ubuntu: use Kile as an editor, and use XeLaTeX button to compile Need to instal MS fonts first as follows
sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer
sudo fc-cacheAfter that, check with
fc-match Arial- University Brand Style Guide: Why 'College of William & Mary' is preferred. http://brand.wm.edu/index.php/editorial/