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2012/05/02, release 2.0

This package is a LaTeX2e document style to format UCLA dissertations and theses. This style is based on work from Leslie Lamport, Dorab Patel, Eduardo Krell, Richard B. Wales, John Heidemann, and Jose Hales-Garcia.

Several theses and dissertations have been approved based on this style package.

One inch margins on left and right. Abstract page follows the copyright page. Committee list is centered and signature lines removed.

There's a bug in \degreeyear handling. The workaround is described below in ``KNOWN PROBLEMS''.

I slightly shrunk page size to clearly conform to the requirements (problem reported by David Gast).

An example showing dual-mode formatting is present in demo2*.tex. My dissertation is formatted either with uclathes.cls (the submission version) and with report.cls (for my committee and a technical report) because IMHO the thesis requirements are not optimal. See the manual for more details how to dual-format your document.

Enclosed in this package are the following files:

uclathes.cls, uclath12.clo, uclathti.clo
These three files implement the LaTeX2e "uclathes" document class.

uclathes.bst
This file implements the BibTeX "uclathes" bibliography style.

thesdoc.tex, thesdoc.pdf
A document describing the "uclathes" style material.

demo.tex, demo.pdf
The "demo thesis" described in thesdoc.tex.

Makefile
Automates TeX'ing documents.

README
The file you are now reading.

The simplest way to install uclathes is to copy *.cls, *.clo, and *.bst into the directory where you run LaTeX.

Alternatively, you can copy these files into wherever LaTeX looks for its inputs.

Rich Wales has prepared a good manual for uclathes. Read thesdoc.pdf (or format and read thesdoc.tex) before proceeding.

The most recent version of this package can be found at URL:https://github.com/jolohaga/uclathes.

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1. \bf doesn't work, I get the error: ! Undefined control sequence. l.214 \item{\bf {Air Interface:}}

You're running LaTeX2e, and \bf isn't enabled by default. You should choose if you want new or old semantics and put \usepackage{newlfont} or \usepackage{oldlfont} in your document.

I purposely did not include one of these packages in uclathes.cls to encourage people to convert to the new macros.

2. If you don't specify a \degreeyear, the value on the title page may be wrong. (This bug occurs in demo.pdf.)

Work around: always specify \degreeyear.

Alternate work around: find a real uclathes maintainer to fix the bug.

If a thesis formatted with uclathes is rejected by the Theses and Dissertations Advisor, please let me know and I will update it accordingly.

The uclathes package is for LaTeX2e. If you're running LaTeX 2.09, you should use the package "thesis.tar" (also available from URL:http://www.isi.edu/~johnh/uclathes.html) instead.

I've graduated and left UCLA so I'm looking for a new maintainer of uclathes. You could be the one! Send me mail if you're interested.

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Uclathes is distributed as reply-ware. If you get it and use it and graduate, you're strongly encouraged to send me some e-mail to let me know that my work was not in vain.

---John Heidemann, 12 Jan 1996 [email protected]