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NMT Thesis Stylesheet: Internals

Abstract

Describes the implementation of the LaTeX stylesheet for New Mexico Tech theses and dissertations. The actual code is included.

This publication is available in Web form and also as a PDF document. Please forward any comments to tcc-doc@nmt.edu.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. Online files

3. The previous package

4. General design considerations

4.1. Sectioning commands
4.2. Paragraphs
4.3. Formatting bibliography entries

5. Naming conventions

6. Prologue to the LaTeX style file

7. Packages used

8. General page layout

8.1. Horizontal dimensions
8.2. Vertical dimensions
8.3. Control of leading
8.4. Page numbering
8.5. Paragraph dimensions

9. Preamble declarations

9.1. \author
9.2. \chair
9.3. \committeesize
9.4. \degree: Kind of degree
9.5. \graduationdate
9.6. Report type selection commands: \thesis, etc.
9.7. \title: Define the overall title
9.8. \typist

10. Commands used in front matter

10.1. The dedication environment
10.2. \titlepage
10.3. The \epigraph command
10.4. The \frontispiece command
10.5. The abstract environment
10.6. The acknowledgments environment
10.7. \tableofcontents
10.8. \listoftables
10.9. \listoffigures
10.10. \listofabbrs
10.11. \signaturepage
10.12. The preface environment

11. Commands used in the document body

11.1. \chapter
11.2. \section
11.3. \subsection and \subsubsection
11.4. \subsubsection
11.5. \appendix
11.6. The References environment
11.7. The Bibliography environment
11.8. The thebibliography environment

12. Per-chapter features

12.1. The chapterabstract environment
12.2. The chapterack environment
12.3. The chapterappendices environment
12.4. The chapterbibliography environment

13. Internal commands

13.1. The bib@list environment
13.2. \chapter@
13.3. \chapter@orappendix
13.4. \chapter@star: The \chapter* command
13.5. \double@spacing: Set up double-spaced lines
13.6. \internal@chapter
13.7. \make@chapterhead
13.8. \make@majorhead
13.9. \sign@here: Signature line
13.10. \single@spacing: Set up single-spaced lines

14. Calling \@startsection

15. Revision history

1. Introduction

To help New Mexico Tech graduate students write clear, attractive theses and dissertations that conform to the formatting requirements of the Graduate Office, the Tech Computer Center maintains a stylesheet for the LaTeX document preparation system. The instructions for using the stylesheet are online: see Using the NMT LaTeX thesis style.

This document presents the actual LaTeX commands of the stylesheet in lightweight literate programming form.

For the reader unfamiliar with LaTeX, especially the construction of style and class files, here are some good resources.

Kopka, Helmut, and Patrick W. Daly. Guide to LaTeX. Addison-Wesley, 2004, ISBN 0-321-17385-6.
Appendix D, “LaTeX programming,” is particularly valuable.
Mittelbach, Frank, and Michel Goossens. The LaTeX Companion, 2nd ed. Addison-Wesley, 2004, ISBN 0-201-36299-6.
Goes into more depth on stylesheet and class file construction.

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Last updated: 2010-03-20 16:49

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