University of Wisconsin-Madison Thesis LaTeX Class by Eric Benedict, 2000, 2002 This provides a class file which produces thesis, prelims, dissertations and project reports which should meet the requirements of the graduate school at UW-Madison. In addition to the class file, an example thesis is included which provides a brief introduction to LaTeX and the usage of the style class in particular. The usage is explained both by example through the source of the example thesis as well as in the typeset result of the example thesis. If you are new to LaTeX, I suggest making two copies of the example files. Leave one as a reference and edit the other by removing the example text and replacing it with your own text. This will make learning LaTeX and producing your thesis occur relatively quickly (at least it did for me. I learned LaTeX and wrote my MS thesis in a couple of weeks doing this way). If you already know LaTeX, but want to learn more; this class file is relatively heavily commented and could serve as a basis for learing to write your own class files. Instructions for using: 1) Unpack the zip archive. Done! (or you likely wouldn't be reading this!) 2) run latex on main.tex UNIX/Linux: $ latex main Windows: depends on set up. Likely: load main.tex and click LaTeX button (assumes WinEdt/MikTex) 3) run bibtex to generate bibliography info: UNIX/Linux: $ bibtex main Windows: depends on set up. Likely: click BibTeX button. 4) run latex two more times (see above) 5) view dvi output UNIX/Linux: $ xdvi main & (the '&' places the viewer in the background) Windows: depends on set up. Likely: click the viewer button. 6) printing UNIX/Linux: $ dvips main (straight to printer) $ dvips -o main.ps main (to file main.ps) Windows: depends on setup... Good Luck! Eric File List: Name Description withesis.cls LaTeX2e thesis class file withesis.sty LaTeX2.09 thesis class file (for those who hate change) note: no longer maintained & not recommended! withe10.sty 10pt spacing info file (needed for 10pt thesis) withe12.sty 12pt spacing info file (needed for 12pt thesis) main.tex Thesis root file (run LaTeX on this file) prelude.tex Thesis preliminary stuff (title page, TOC, etc) abstract.tex Thesis abstract intro.tex A thesis chapter acro.tex A thesis chapter bibref.tex A thesis chapter bibs.tex A thesis chapter code.tex A thesis chapter essentials.tex A thesis chapter figs.tex A thesis chapter math.tex A thesis chapter usage.tex A thesis chapter refs.bib The BibTeX reference library vwcontr.eps An encapsulated PostScript figure fig2.tex A figure using TeX's picture drawing language derivs.m A sample program listing essential.tex The original form of essentials.tex by Jon Warbrick (c) 1989 README This file source.zip The zip archive you unpacked Acknowledgements: The {\tt withesis} style file is based on the Purdue thesis file written by Dave Kraynie and edited by Darrell McCauley. 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