wsulib/wsu-dt-latex

A LaTeX template which follows the Wayne State University guidelines for dissertations and theses.

Wayne State University Dissertation and Thesis LaTeX Template

This template builds on documents prepared in LaTeX by Michael Catanzaro and Gabriel Angelini-Knoll, both formerly of the Wayne State University Department of Mathematics, with updates in 2019 by Aaron Willcock ([email protected]) for the updated WSU dissertation and thesis formatting guidelines. This directory is maintained by Clayton Hayes ([email protected]), creator of the original template, on behalf of the WSU Library System.

Compiling

The template can be compiled with pdflatex,

pdflatex main.tex

lualatex,

lualatex main.tex

or xelatex

xelatex main.tex

Notes on Compiling

• If you are using BibTeX, recall that you must first run bibtex on main.tex before compiling the full document

bibtex main.tex

• In order for the Table of Contents to display correctly, you may need to compile main.tex twice.
• The PDF in this directory was compiled using xelatex on 28 September 2021.

Original LaTeX

The unedited, accepted latex upon which the most recent thesis template revision was adapted can be found on Github.

Disclaimer

This not an official template, but does follow the guidelines laid out by Wayne State University's Graduate School Manual.

wsu-dt-latex's Issues

Format issues

I got the following comments from the Wayne State University Graduate School when I submitted my thesis using this template:

Title Page:
Please add four blank signature lines underneath “Advisor” and “Date”. See the sample title page in the formatting guide (link above) for an example of this.

General Comments:
Please make the font size for the main section headers (e.g., ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, TABLE OF CONTENTS) the same size as the paragraph text. Use the font size of the title on the title page as an example to follow.

Main Text:
Please remove any extra space between the subsection header and the top margin. The header should come up to (but not into) the top margin. (They talk about the issue with extra space between page number and subsection title when subsection starts on a new page)

Abstract:
Please ensure the lines for “Advisor”, “Major”, and “Degree” start at the left margin.

Text and Tables do not follow the right margin requirements for the page

Hello,

Thanks for creating the template.
I am not sure if this template is still being updated. However, I wanted to reach out and see if there is a possibility to update the template to fix the right margin issues. It appears that the text runs out of the page (on the right side).

Thanks,
Prabhjot