Good evening, is there any special recommendation for implementing a dedication page?

I see some information mentioned on:

Thanks for any guidance in advance.

Andres

Having a title (in frontmatter.tex) that doesn't fit on one line will push the date onto the next page. Workaround is adding \vspace{-0.7cm} to the title text.

This should be fixed by adding \usepackage[normalem]{ulem} in the preamble for "main.tex". The bibliography should be in the proper style afterwards.

Trying to cite a website using a misc bibtex entry only shows the title, not the url. How can I fix this?

They are telling me that APPENDICES must be centered in all caps at the top of the first appendix page such as with the Bibliography section seen here: http://i.imgur.com/1T0BXTD.png

Quote from grad dept: "Please insert "Appendices" in all CAPS at the top of the page." (referring to the appendix)

I'm trying to get it working like they want, but currently it seems that the template does not do this (as far as I can tell).

If there are more than 4 committee members then the Committee Membership page contents get pushed to the following page.

A fix is to adjust the tabular spacing when there are more committee members. I've submitted a pull request #31 that should solve this.

Cal Poly's graduate department does not allow bolding on the preliminary pages. I recently used this template and saw the List of Figures is not bold but the List of Tables is, so I am trying to remove the bold for this. The Figures and Tables list latex looks the same as far as I can tell here - https://github.com/CalPolyCSC/thesis-template/blob/master/ucthesis.cls#L969.

Any idea how I can un-bold the list items in the List of Tables list?

This can be achieved by simply adding:

\par\\
\par\\

After line #427 of "ucthesis.cls":

Is there a way to make the section numbers appear next to the section in the document body? Looking through ucthesis.cls it looks like I can turn on some mark but the code is extremely dense.

Right now when I type

\section{Type Qualifiers on the Call Graph}

I get something that looks like the following:

Type Qualifiers on the Call Graph

but I would really prefer if it would show something like the following:

2.2 Type Qualifiers on the Call Graph

Is there a way I can tell the section command that I'd like to see the number?

I might end up owning this, but it's worth describing anyway. Many latex templates include a meta-pdf, that describes the package, but in the format that the output should appear in. So I suggest a PDF included in the repo that shows what the finalized thesis document should look like, that is also the documentation for the repo.

These lines from "ucthesis.cls":

{\abstractname} \\ 
Multi-line Thesis Title Following The\\Upside-Down Pyramid Format\\ 
\vspace{.025in}

From page 10 of the Graduate Education's Master's Thesis Formatting Guidelines (AY 2022-2023):

Table labels should appear above tables in the body of the thesis.

It would be nice if this, along with forcing captions underneath figures (another guideline), could be enforced in the template.

This works to move captions above tables without affecting figure captions, but it also removes all the formatting/styling and spacing:

% force table captions to top: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/22751/how-to-force-table-caption-on-top
\floatstyle{plaintop}
\restylefloat{table}

I got rejected by DigitalCommons because the inconsistency between entries in List of Tables and List of Figures.

(ix): It appears that the spacing between entries 4.2 and 5.1 is inconsistent with the rest of the page. Please maintain the double-space throughout the entirety of the page.

(x): It appears that the spacing between entries 2.10, 3.1 and 4.1 are inconsistent with the rest of the page. Please maintain the double-space between entries throughout the entirety of the page. This appears to also be an issue for the spacing between entries 4.6 and 5.1. Please revise.

It seems like the inconsistency happens when moving to new chapter.

I created a branch on my local machine but can't push it up and open it for peer review. Is there a way I can improve the template? I have three minor commits that would add value to the template and make them more in-line with Cal Poly's expectations.

The optional \keywords macro meant to be used in "abstract.tex" is defined somewhere and does not function properly.

It should not produce a bold/italicized "Keywords:". It should instead simply output "Keywords:" and automatically space its positioning to be at the bottom of the Abstract page.

The initial edit pass of my thesis requested that I add hanging indents to the bibliography. After some searching I was able to fix it using:

\def\bibindent{1em}
\begin{thebibliography}{99\kern\bibindent}
\makeatletter
\let\old@biblabel\@biblabel
\def\@biblabel#1{\old@biblabel{#1}\kern\bibindent}
\let\old@bibitem\bibitem
\def\bibitem#1{\old@bibitem{#1}\leavevmode\kern-\bibindent}
\makeatother

\bibliography{bibliography}
\end{thebibliography}

Is there a better way to do this? If not I can make an edit to the main.tex once I know my hanging indents pass the final editorial inspection.

When this github action runs it produces the following error and warnings:

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Rejected from Digital Commons because the subsubsections are not numbered or in the TOC. Any suggestions?

"(5-6): Please be sure that all sections are labeled and taken account for in the Table of Contents. It appears that there are some sections throughout this thesis that are not numerically labeled. Please make sure to numerically label all sections and list them in the Table of Contents."

The \title field in "frontmatter.tex"

\title{Multi-line Thesis Title Following The\\ \vspace{3.5mm}Upside-Down Pyramid Format}

This can cause other spacing problems where the \title field is used by default such as on the Abstract Page (iv), which also has a related spacing issue raised here as Issue #34.

I'm relatively new to LaTeX and having an issue adding more than 2 committee members to my frontmatter file. My frontmatter file currently reads:

\title{My Thesis Title}
\author{Tyler Harty}
\degreemonth{December} \degreeyear{2017} \degree{Master of Science}
\defensemonth{December} \defenseyear{2017}
\numberofmembers{3}
\chair{Committee Chair \linebreak Professor of blah}
\othermemberA{Committee member number 1 \linebreak Professor of blah}
\othermemberB{Committee member number 2 \linebreak Professor of blah}
\othermemberC{Committee member number 3 \linebreak Professor of blah}
\field{my major} \campus{San Luis Obispo}
\copyrightyears{seven}

But when the pdf is created, only the committee chair and members 1 and 2 are on the committee membership page. Please let me know what needs to be fixed/changed in order for the final document to show all 3 committee members.

Thanks!

Tyler

Tests should ensure that the template always compiles