Canges on adviser /coadviser on configuration

[Paulo Bonifacio]

Hi,

I'm a noob in latex, so sorry if the question is out of place.

I've been asked to remove the position in the adviser/co-adviser, entity.

Can somebody give-me a pointer on how do I do that...

Regards,

"

\adviser[f]{John Doe Adviser Name}{Full Professor}{NOVA University of Lisbon}

"

"

John Doe Adviser Name, , NOVA University of Lisbon

"

[Joao Lourenco]

Hi Paulo,

FCT-NOVA has strict rules about the layout of the covers on the dissertations, but not for plan/proposal documents.

Are we talking about a MSc ou PhD dissertation? The final document ou a MSc/PhD plan/proposal?

If the case is a dissertation, you you simple cannot remove it as it will go against the rules of FCT-NOVA, no matter who asked you.

If it is a dissertation plan/proposal, does it help to define the contents as empty?

\adviser[f]{}{}{} 

João L.

[m.ram...@campus.fct.unl.pt]

Hi, 

I actually have the same question about the coadviser. 

I've tried to leave it blank but it still apear as Paulo showed, with the commas.

Is there a way to put just one content without the commas showing, for instance, \coadviser[f]{}{}?

Thank you,

Mariana

[Joao Lourenco]

If you comment the "\coadviser{}…" then it will not show in the thesis cover.

[m.ram...@campus.fct.unl.pt]

What I meant was that I want it to appear on the thesis cover, but I want to remove the entity. 

I want to keep the name of the coadviser and the school name.

Is there a way to remove just the entity part? (I tried leave it blank but it didn't work)

[Joao Lourenco]

What is "the entity"?

Instead of telling me what you want to do, tell me what do you want to achieve!  :)

[m.ram...@campus.fct.unl.pt]

The entity I want to remove is the part that says "Full Professor".

So instead of this:

John Doe Adviser Name, Full Professor, NOVA University of Lisbon  

I want to achieve this:

John Doe Adviser Name, NOVA University of Lisbon

But if I just leave it blank, the commas still appear, like this:

John Doe Adviser Name, , NOVA University of Lisbon  

:)

[Joao Lourenco]

Oh! Now I understand.  You want to remove the "professional title".

Let me see… 

[Joao Lourenco]

Open "novathesis.cls" and look for

\def\printadvisers@iii#1,#2,#3{%

  #1, #2, #3%

}

you will find it near line 536.

Replace those 3 lines with these 5 lines

\def\printadvisers@iii#1,#2,#3{%

  #1%

  \ifthenelse{\equal{#2}{}}{}{, #2}%

  \ifthenelse{\equal{#3}{}}{}{, #3}%

}

and then use like

\adviser[m]{John Doe Adviser Name}{}{NOVA University of Lisbon}

[m.ram...@campus.fct.unl.pt]

Yes, that's it. It worked!

Sorry for not being more explicit before.

Thank you very much :)