For this math-heavy text, I tried to combine a classic design with some uncommon ideas. Some aspects turned out quite nice and I've recieved some positive comments regarding the typesetting. It is memoir-based.
>For this math-heavy text, I tried to combine a classic design with some >uncommon ideas. Some aspects turned out quite nice and I've recieved some >positive comments regarding the typesetting. It is memoir-based.
regard me as another offering positive comments. a nice piece of work, indeed. -- Robin Fairbairns, Cambridge
> For this math-heavy text, I tried to combine a classic design with some > uncommon ideas. Some aspects turned out quite nice and I've recieved some > positive comments regarding the typesetting. It is memoir-based.
Nice. I am surprised your institution allows free-formated/design heavy dissertations but great work.
>> For this math-heavy text, I tried to combine a classic design with some >> uncommon ideas. Some aspects turned out quite nice and I've recieved some >> positive comments regarding the typesetting. It is memoir-based.
> Nice. I am surprised your institution allows free-formated/design heavy > dissertations but great work.
is it frequent that they pose much more strict rules? i.e. least common demoninator (aka Word) defaults?
We do not have any rules about the layout either, we might do some suggestions at some point, but if some one have the artistic abilities then IMO they should not be hindered by rigorous rules.
On 2009-05-07, Lars Madsen <dal...@RTFSIGNATUREimf.au.dk> wrote:
> is it frequent that they pose much more strict rules? i.e. least common > demoninator (aka Word) defaults?
I know of USA universities and PhD dissertations. The formats often pre-date MS-Word and even LaTeX. They tend to be very simple, no frills formats. They specify margins, double spaced, some departments the reference styles (others are more liberal about that), section header styles etc. Decorative work within the text is allowed but nothing on margins, paragraph separators etc.
Turgut Durduran wrote: > On 2009-05-07, Lars Madsen <dal...@RTFSIGNATUREimf.au.dk> wrote: >> is it frequent that they pose much more strict rules? i.e. least common >> demoninator (aka Word) defaults?
> I know of USA universities and PhD dissertations. The formats often > pre-date MS-Word and even LaTeX. They tend to be very simple, no frills > formats. They specify margins, double spaced, some departments the > reference styles (others are more liberal about that), section header > styles etc. Decorative work within the text is allowed but nothing on > margins, paragraph separators etc.
> ugdc
ahh, yes I've seen that, I help a student here on ctt, and she sent me a PDF of the end result. It looked nice, but was totally ruined by the double spaced requirement.
>> For this math-heavy text, I tried to combine a classic design with some >> uncommon ideas. Some aspects turned out quite nice and I've recieved some >> positive comments regarding the typesetting. It is memoir-based.
>Nice. I am surprised your institution allows free-formated/design heavy >dissertations but great work.
it's the sign of an institution that's not driven (entirely) by bureaucrats. since i (re-)joined my present department in the early 90s, the requirements have swelled from the delightful "if the dissertation is printed using a xerographic procedure, the candidate shall ensure that the toner is properly fused" to the sort of hideous specificity that you so often hear of in usanian universities.
the swelling of the spec has matched the swelling influence of the board of graduate studies (bogs, though for some reason they like to omit the "o"). the bogs used to be a small source of delay and a laughing stock, now they're a huge source of delay and are jeered at by all and sundry. (fwiw, when i was registered as a phd student, they copied down my proposed diss title as if they'd transmitted it around the bogs by chinese whispers. my supervisor advised me not to try and correct them, just to present them with a final dissertation with the correct title, at the end ... which i never did.) -- Robin Fairbairns, Cambridge
> For this math-heavy text, I tried to combine a classic design with some > uncommon ideas. Some aspects turned out quite nice and I've recieved some > positive comments regarding the typesetting. It is memoir-based.
> Erik
Reading through your Preface reminded me of the amazing first lines of Douady,
Le but de cette these est de munir son auteur du titre de Docteur.
(The purpose of this thesis is to provide its author with a PhD diploma) ;-)
> For this math-heavy text, I tried to combine a classic design with some > uncommon ideas. Some aspects turned out quite nice and I've recieved > some positive comments regarding the typesetting. It is memoir-based.
> Erik
The use of the margins and placing of figures is effective. Can you share how you achieved this in memoir?
Tom
-- Tom Dye T. S. Dye & Colleagues, Archaeologists, Inc. Honolulu, Hawai`i
>> For this math-heavy text, I tried to combine a classic design with >> some uncommon ideas. Some aspects turned out quite nice and I've >> recieved some positive comments regarding the typesetting. It is >> memoir-based. On Fri, 8 May 2009, Tom Dye wrote:
> The use of the margins and placing of figures is effective. Can you > share how you achieved this in memoir?
For margin usage, it seems I (likely with some ctt-help) modified a memoir-marginal note command (in one of the style files I made; \strictpagechecking necessary for having correct page references):
[...] A simple illustration of an unbounded polyhedron is given on the side. \sidenote{ \input{figuren/poly-constraint-tikz}
}
The Minkowski-Weyl theorem \citep{Fukuda-polyfaq} tells us that [...]
For figure placement, I load and setup (in one of the style files I made)
\RequirePackage{wrapfig} \newlength{\defaultintextsep} \setlength{\defaultintextsep}{.5\baselineskip plus 1.2pt minus .6pt} \setlength{\intextsep}{\defaultintextsep} \newcommand*{\restoreintextsep}{\setlength{\intextsep}{\defaultintextsep}}
and then use the wrapfigure environment, which requires some manual tweaking each time; for example on p.68:
[...] This results in a very simple toy example, which is nevertheless very illustrative.
\setlength{\intextsep}{0\defaultintextsep} \begin{wrapfigure}[9]{o}[\headextend]{0pt} \small \input{figuren/toy-examp-tikz} \end{wrapfigure}\restoreintextsep Consider a tuple $\defn{h}{(\varabst{i}{\intint{1}{6}}{h_i})}$ of constraints; [...]
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