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<div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Due to continued formatting errors associated with the style-file </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">LaTeX, the Format Advising Service does not recommend that students </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">continue to use it as a style guide.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">LaTeX, developed by a former ASU student, is available only on his </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">personal website and is based on an outdated version of the Format </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Manual. The format of theses and dissertations has changed since its </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">development, and LaTeX no longer meets the basic requirements of a </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">recommended style guide. The check-box option for LaTeX has been </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">removed from the Format Approval Sheet, and students are encouraged </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">to use other style guides such as APA, MLA, Chicago, Turabian, or a </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">field-specific journal article.</div></blockquote><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">As near as I can comprehend that drivel, it *seems* to say that you can use</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">a style that's associated with a journal in your field.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Assuming that your field is reasonably technical, there's an excellent</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">chance that one or more of the main journals will have a LaTeX style of</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">their own, and it seems to me that you can use that.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Unless, of course, I'm completely misunderstanding the incomprehensible drivel.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> Doc Evans</div></blockquote></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The problem with the statement they made is that they think that LaTeX is a ``style guide" (like APA or MLA <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Style_guide">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Style_guide</a>) when it is a typesetting language, a completely different thing.</div><div><br></div><div>As an example, let's say Microsoft Word was not the popular software that it is (and it was not well-known), and let's say someone wrote a Word template (following some of ASU's Thesis formatting requests, but not all because it was outdated), and let's say many people were beginning to submit their thesis using this outdated Word template. Of course their formatting was wrong, but it is not Word's fault their formatting is wrong, it's the template that needs to be changed to accommodate the new format requirements. However, in this case, ASU would say you can no longer use Word because it doesn't meet the requirements of a style guide. That makes no sense because Word is not a style guide. In the case of the LaTeX style file, the asthesis.sty file was not continuously maintained to allow for changes in ASU's ever-changing format requirements, but that is not LaTeX's fault, it's the style-file that needs to be updated to accommodate ASU's format requirements. I hope that made sense.</div><div><br></div><div>Anyway, I am currently using the asthesis.sty file (with hopes I can get help from texhax to make the necessary changes to fix any formatting issues), and I'm also using the apacite package which allows me to use the APA style. I am in the Linguistics field so I'm also using several other packages for printing IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) characters.</div><div><br></div><div>Sharon</div></body></html>