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<html><head><title>Cornell Thesis LaTeX Document Class</title></head><body><h1>Cornell Thesis LaTeX Document Class</h1>
<p>
</p><center><strong>The current version is 2.7,
dated 2006/10/25</strong></center>
<em>This document class takes into account the changes made in the
openbib commands in the December 1995 release of LaTeX.
It will not work with earlier versions.</em>
<p></p>
<p>
The <code>cornell</code> document class typesets dissertations and
theses according to the specifications of the Cornell University
Graduate School, as described in the April 2001 edition of the
booklet ``Doctoral Dissertation, Master's Thesis, and Advanced
Degree Requirements''.
It was originally released as <code>crnlphd</code> by Sergio
Gelato, who created it by converting the old thesis style files
to a LaTeX2e document class.
Daniel Kartch modified it so that it could handle Master's theses
as well as doctoral dissertations, and also fixed a few bugs caused
by changes in the LaTeX source release. Steve Holland later fixed a
few bugs and added a few features. Aleksey Nogin then added some more
features. Nate Nystrom and Andrew Myers fixed a few more bugs in line
spacing and line number placement.
To learn more, you can check out the
<a href="cornell.pdf">User's Guide</a>, which can also be generated
from the source files.
</p><p>
The distribution contains four files:
</p><ul>
<li> <a href="README">README</a> - Installation instructions and change log.
</li><li> <a href="cornell.dtx">cornell.dtx</a> - Documented source code for
the class
</li><li> <a href="cornell.ins">cornell.ins</a> - Installation script to produce
class file from the source
</li><li> <a href="cornell.pdf">cornell.pdf</a> - Prebuilt documentation (via pdflatex).
</li></ul>
It is also available in a single compressed file:
<p></p>
<p>
Several older versions of the Cornell Thesis style are archived here:
</p><ul>
<li> Version <a href="http://tam.cornell.edu/Computer/cuthesis/cu_thesis2.6.tar.gz">cu_thesis2.6.tar.gz</a>
<li> Version <a href="http://tam.cornell.edu/Computer/cuthesis/v1.1/mirror.html">1.1</a>
</li><li> Version <a href="http://tam.cornell.edu/Computer/cuthesis/v2.1a/mirror.html">2.1a</a>
</li><li> Version <a href="http://tam.cornell.edu/Computer/cuthesis/v2.5/index.html">2.5</a>
</li></ul>
The Cornell Center for Materials Research has a LaTeX thesis page
based on version 2.0 of the thesis style at <a href="http://cf.ccmr.cornell.edu/docs/howto/tex/tips_thesis.html">http://cf.ccmr.cornell.edu/docs/howto/tex/tips_thesis.html</a>
<p></p>
<p>
CCMR provides the following useful recommendation:
</p><blockquote>
<h3>Printer Variations</h3>
<p>
Each printer varies a bit on the precision of the margins. You can
generally set it to your needs by adjusting these parameters. See page
182 of the LaTeX 2nd Edition book for the layout of page
paramters. The left margin starts from 1 inch. The text width is
adjusted to change the right margin! Defaults are in the cornell.cls
file as:
</p><pre>\setlength\evensidemargin{.51in} \setlength\oddsidemargin{.51in} \setlength\textwidth{5.88in}
</pre><p>
For example to increase the left margin by .1 inches without changing the right margin use:
</p><pre>\setlength\evensidemargin{.61in} \setlength\oddsidemargin{.61in} \setlength\textwidth{5.78in}
</pre><p>
To increase the right margin by .1 inches:
</p><pre>\setlength\textwidth{5.78in}
</pre>
</blockquote>
<p>
<br>
Greg Voth posted some hints on his site at <a href="http://milou.msc.cornell.edu/%7Egreg/thesis/hints.html">http://milou.msc.cornell.edu/~greg/thesis/hints.html</a>:
</p><blockquote>
Some students before me had problems with getting the captions at the
bottom of landscape figures in their theses. I found that this can be
easily done by using the package "rotating", and the commmands
below. More documentation is in The LaTeX Companion.
<pre>\begin{sidewaysfigure}
\centering\epsfig{file=filename.eps,width=??}
\singlespacing
\caption{Landscape figure}
\normalspacing
\label{land_figure}
\end{sidewaysfigure}
</pre>
You will need to find a bibliography style file that follows some
standard referencing style in your field. My advisor has his own which
follows Annual Reviews of Fluid Mechanics style that I used:
turbulence.bst. Then you need all your references in a .bib file. A
great tool for creating this is the gawk script inspec2bibtex. From
INSPEC on the library web site, you can email the bibliography
information to yourself. Run inspec2bibtex on the text file from
INSPEC, and it outputs the entries for the .bib file. The script
currently is somewhat hacked, there may be some more elegant versions
out there, but this one has worked for me.
</blockquote>
<h3>Paragraph spacing</h3>
<p>
I think more paragraph spacing is needed than is provided by
the documentclass. I use <tt>\addtolength{\parskip}{0.5\baselineskip}</tt>
right before the chapters start, in order to increase the paragraph spacing.
If you want to increase the paragraph spacing for your abstract, acknowledgements, etc., you can put the same line <tt>\addtolength{\parskip}{0.5\baselineskip}</tt> before the abstract section. If you do this, you will also need to put in a line <tt>\addtolength{\parskip}{-0.5\baselineskip}</tt> before the
table-of-contents to reset <tt>\parskip</tt>, because otherwise the line
spacing in the table of contents and list of figures is screwed up.
</p>
<h3>pdflatex</h3>
<p>
I should mention that I strongly recommend using <tt>pdflatex</tt> and PDF
rather than regular <tt>latex</tt> and DVI for production.
You will probably want to <tt>\usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}</tt>.
</p>
<p>
To insert a figure, you can use the following code to create a figure containing <tt>myfig.pdf</tt>:
</p><pre>\begin{figure}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.75\textwidth]{myfig}
\caption{My figure.}
\label{fig:myfig}
\end{figure}
</pre>
<p></p>
<h3>pdflatex issues</h3>
<p>
In order to use pdflatex, your figures must be in PDF format. Usually
you would use /usr/bin/epstopdf (on Linux) to convert EPS figures to
encapsulated PDF with ghostscript. However, current versions tend to
enable JPEG compression on bitmap images which can damage image quality.
You can pass ghostscript distiller parameters such as -dEncodeGrayImages=false
and -dEncodeColorImages=false that will prevent the use of JPEG compression
by the ghostscript distiller. (This can also dramatically increase file size).
</p>
<p>
I also ran into a problem in which certain figures did not print out
correctly with Acrobat Reader. You can try distilling with ghostcript to
fix such problems. <a href="http://tam.cornell.edu/Computer/cuthesis/pdf2pdf">Here is the script I used</a>. You may need
a new version of ghostscript (>=7.00) for this to work well.
</p>
<h3>Hanging captions</h3>
<p>
The use of the <tt>hangcaption</tt> package is documented in the instructions,
but the suggested commands aren't quite optimal. Here is my suggestion:
<br><tt>
\usepackage{ifthen}
<br>
\renewcommand{\caption}[2][]{\singlespacingplus\ifthenelse{\equal{}{#1}}{\hangcaption{#2}}{\hangcaption[#1]{#2}}\normalspacing}
</tt><br>
This puts the captions in singlespacingplus mode and supports the optional
argument to \caption that allows the list-of-figures entry and the actual
caption to be different
</p>
<h3>Reusing equation numbers</h3>
Often you have already written an equation once and you want to write
it again, using the same equation number a second time. I have written
a small package called "<a href="http://tam.cornell.edu/Computer/cuthesis/previousequation.sty">previousequation</a>" that allows you to do this
easily. If you have an equation:
<pre>\begin{equation}
2+2=4
\label{eq:2plus2}
\end{equation}
</pre>
You can write the equation a second time with <tt>\usepackage{previousequation}</tt> and
<pre>\begin{previousequation}{eq:2plus2}
2+2=4
\label{eq:2plus2}
\end{previousequation}
</pre>
My previousequation package does not work with <tt>eqnarray</tt>. The
<tt><a href="http://tam.cornell.edu/Computer/cuthesis/deleq.tar.gz">deleq</a></tt> package can be used in this case.
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