January 31, 2004

GATech Thesis package (cont'd)

I happened to be able to install the gatech-thesis LaTeX package on a Mac OS X machine without incident. You should have the tetex/latex fink package installed to have this work. Get fink from http://fink.sourceforge.net, then in a Terminal app as root, do an "apt-get install tetex". The following is what I did. I first downloaded the tar.gz file. In a terminal, I unpacked the tar.gz file with "tar zxvf gatech-thesis-1.6.tar.gz". I sudo'd as root with "sudo su" (or "sudo -s" will work as well). Then did the following:

1. I copied the files to the following locations. If the directories were not there, I made them first before copying; e.g. with "mkdir ":


  • /sw/etc/texmf.local/tex/latex/gatech-thesis/gatech-thesis.cls

  • /sw/etc/texmf.local/tex/latex/gatech-thesis/gatech-thesis-patch.sty

  • /sw/etc/texmf.local/tex/latex/gatech-thesis/gatech-thesis-losa.sty

  • /sw/etc/texmf.local/tex/latex/gatech-thesis/gatech-thesis-gloss.sty

  • /sw/etc/texmf.local/tex/latex/gatech-thesis/gatech-thesis-index.sty

  • /sw/etc/texmf.local/bibtex/bst/gatech-thesis/gatech-thesis.bst

  • /sw/etc/texmf.local/bibtex/bst/gatech-thesis/gatech-thesis-losa.bst

  • /sw/etc/texmf.local/makeindex/gatech-thesis/gatech-thesis-index.ist


2. I then ran "texhash" which refreshed the database.
3. cd into julesverne/basic.
4. Run the DO_pdf.sh script to test the installation (i.e. type "./DO_pdf.sh"). And you should have a resulting pdf file that you can view.

On the Mac, the fonts look exceptionally good. Of course, for your use you will have to change /sw/etc/texmf.local/tex/latex/gatech-thesis/gatech-thesis.cls to your liking; however for me, not much change was required.

Posted by johnvu at January 31, 2004 03:55 PM
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How to make the following format in the Table of Contents ?

Chapter 1 Introduction......................1
Chapter 2 Review............................2
...
...
How to show "Chapter" before the number ?
Thanks a lot !!!

Posted by: Yi-Yu on April 6, 2004 11:34 PM
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