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UNC Dissertation Template

18 March 2022: This repository RJ Niewoehner's lightly updated version of Jay Rob Williams work.

Changes RJ made include the following:

Single spaced references, but double spaced BETWEEN references
Page numbers on Chapter pages
ALL CAPS title
Paragraphs should be indented consistently throughout (including after section headings)
Abstract needs 2inch top Margin needed
Right margin was originally set to 1.25", but I prefer 1"
Landscape pages were rotated in Adobe after printing to .pdf

Jay Rob Williams' template was a lightly updated version of Björn B. Brandenburg's UNC dissertation LaTeX template, with assistance from Chelsea Estancona's previous modifications. The changes I made were sufficient to get my dissertation approved by the graduate school on 10/11/2019, but the requirements seem to change every year. To that end, this repository is intended to serve as an open and evolving resource going forward. If you use this template for your own dissertation in future years, please consider forking this repository or submitting a pull request with your changes so that it can stay up to date for future PhD students!

Changes Jay Rob Williams made to Björn's template include:

Making main title standard font size
Making all chapter, section, and sub(sub)section headings standard font size
Centering the Table of Contents header
Making footnotes only 1pt smaller than body text
Placing chapter numbers and titles on the same line
Setting 1" top margins for appendix headers
Removing some of the more bespoke code related to terms and figures in his dissertation from macros.tex
Switching from natbib to regular BibTeX
Switching from amsthm the ntheorem
Adding a comment function at the end of macros.tex to allow color highlighted notes set off by brackets in rendered PDFs

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