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[CONTRIBUTORS NEEDED] A LaTeX template keeps up with the College of William & Mary - Art & Science Physical Standards for Theses & Dissertations.

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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

Contributors

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

  • Bob Matthews

Updated 9/04 to conform to Arts and Science Graduate Writer's Guide of Nov. 2003. Your milege may vary. -- Bob Matthews == rem

  • Ruth Lamprecht
  • Andrew Pyles

Updated 07/13 to conform to Arts and Science standards of Oct. 2012, with help from Andrew Pyles -- Ruth

  • David T. Nguyen

Modifications to comply with Physical Standards set on 08/13/2015

  • Ed Novak

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 2017 (on-going). Refactored the wmthesis class to make it easier to understand and modify. Maintain the first Github repository. -- Shanhe Yi

Usage

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 simple". You can comment the corresponding sections in the makefile based on your using latex or xelatex.

Feel free to contact the contributors 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 !

Font problem

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 (link Linux), we recommand to use Computer Modern.

To use Computer Modern, just add

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

Ways of install Arial font

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.

1. MacOS or Ubuntu - Using PdfLaTeX or LaTeX

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 -a

In 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.ps

or

pdflatex:
	pdflatex thesis
	bibtex thesis
	pdflatex thesis
	pdflatex thesis

is uncommented

then make latex or make pdflatexto compile the latex.

2. MacOS or Windows - Using XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX

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 thesis

is uncommented

then make xelatex to compile the latex.

3. Aria in Ubuntu using XeLaTeX - from David

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.eps to 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-cache

After that, check with

fc-match Arial

References