Comments on: A LaTeX template for UCI dissertations

By: Trevor

Trevor — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 08:29:22 +0000

I tested the ucithesis class with LyX 1.6.5, and it seems to work fine. Note that the class derives from report, not article, so your layout file should look like this:

#% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this # \DeclareLaTeXClass[ucithesis]{UCI Thesis}

# Read the definitions from report.layout Input report.layout

After reconfiguring LyX and restarting, “UCI Thesis” appears in Document > Settings > Document Class. I was also able to import the sample thesis.tex file into LyX, which generated a DVI that looks as it should.

By: Jayram

Jayram — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:22:40 +0000

Hi,

I am trying to import the latex file within lyx. But unable to go far in this process.

I did the things suggested in http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/CreatingLayouts.

(1) First created a directory ucithesis in /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/. Copied ucithesis.cls file in that directory

(2) I created a file called ucithesis.layout in ~/.lyx/layout

(3) executed
sudo texhash

(4) Import ucithesis.tex file into lyx. But lyx failed to successfully load the file and generate the required report

By: Sunny

Sunny — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:20:14 +0000

This is great, thank you.

By: David

David — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:20:14 +0000

Thanks a lot for posting and maintaining this template!

By: Trevor

Trevor — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 02:43:15 +0000

Thanks for finding that, Alex. I’ve updated the distribution to include your suggestion. If only I had known about this last week, before I submitted my dissertation!

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 23:06:57 +0000

Actually this works better:
\clearpage
\phantomsection

It adds the right page number in TOC for Bibliography, and when pdf is viewed and Bibliography is clicked it jumps to a correct page.

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:59:34 +0000

There is a bug where in TOC page for Bibliography is incorrect. Adding \cleardoublepage to the cls file before \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Bibliography} seems to fix it. Although when viewing the PDF it still doesn’t jump to Bibliography, but at least correct page appears in TOC.

By: MKL

MKL — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:54:03 +0000

There are situations that a caption cannot be shortened. That’s why I am interested in knowing whether this is a class-file-spefific or a general LaTeX problem. I may be interested in finding a solution. If the latter, then I won’t need to waste my time.

By: Trevor

Trevor — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 05:54:58 +0000

The note in the readme file is just a reminder for people like me who tend to write long captions. Usually they just want a short description of the figure to appear in the List of Figures, not the several detailed sentences written for the caption. But that’s exactly what will happen if there’s a long caption inside the curly braces. Solving this problem is simply a matter of adding a shorter version of the caption inside square brackets. I’ve rewritten the readme file to clarify this point.

By: MKL

MKL — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 05:36:57 +0000

Is the page over-running problem mentioned in the readme file a problem of this particular class file or of the LaTeX system? With this class file (11/2008 version), the line runs over towards the page number but never overlaps the page number; that is, it eats into the space separating the caption and the page number.