[texhax] URGENT: Will Pay for Written Style File

[Sharon Baker]

Well there you have it.  I didn't mind the whole thesis writing process (I'm
in the Applied Linguistics Masters program), but I really do loathe that I
have to go through this stupid, idiotic format approval.  This has been the
worst part of my ASU experience, knowing that I have to follow guidelines
that are completely absurd.

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 10:13 AM, William Adams <will.adams at frycomm.com>wrote:

> On Apr 8, 2009, at 12:33 PM, Sharon Baker wrote:
>
>  You can find it here.  I had attached it to the very first email, but
>> the admin had to delete it because he thought it might be too large
>> and might not get to some of your inboxes.  My apologies for that.  I
>> realized later I should have included the link.
>>
>> http://graduate.asu.edu/formatmanual.html
>>
>
> Thanks.
>
> Looking at it, it's kind of hard to take seriously given that it includes
> bad links like:
>
> http://graduate.asu.edu/format/UsingStlGds.html
>
> (apparently that should be http://graduate.asu.edu/recstyleguides.html )
>
>
> Which begs the question of what your major of study is.
>
> especially when one of the bad links is to:
>
> http://graduate.asu.edu/format/FMchanges.html
>
> Rather seems important for that to be up-to-date.
>
> Also when it has contradictions like:
>
> ``You cannot rely on other theses and dissertations—whether
> library or departmental copies—to format your document.
> Someone else’s document is not an acceptable style guide.''
>
> Yet they suggest when using a style guide from a journal to sample an
> article and provide that as an example.
>
> I suspect that just adding \usepackage{mathptmx} will get one most of the
> way there --- certainly it'll change the look sufficiently that they won't
> realize that it was done using LaTeX.
>
>
> William
>
> --
> William Adams
> senior graphic designer
> Fry Communications
> Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.
>
>
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