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All the guidelines seem to be using `blockletter` anyways, so set that as the default instead. This change will only affect people who used v2.8 of the class, seeing as the options didn't actually work before. closes #1
`biber` is more modern than `biblatex`. For example, it can support UTF-8 encoding. Updated .gitignore and Makefile.example to reflect the different generated files.
texi2pdf doesn't run biber, so the template is missing references. The solution is to run biber afterwards, and then run texi2pdf one more time. Thanks to @zmanji for noticing this.
`make clean` was missing some of the other auxilliary files (from biber). Update .gitignore to ignore .DS_Store and the generated example pdfs.
There appear to be some compatibility issues with the DVI files. Also, nobody really uses DVI any more these days. PDF is sufficient.
Previously, this was controlled from within the class. "Appendix" would prefix every appendix letter, even subsections. So we would get things like "Appendix A," which is fine, and "Appendix A.1," which doesn't look as nice. Thus, the `appendix' package is used in the SE .tex template. This allows greater control over the appendix formatting. There may be a way of achieving this without using the `appendix' package, but it probably isn't as simple.
This prevents a table or figure in Appendix A from being labelled as 1-1. Now it will be A-1 because that is the section letter. Non-appendix sections should still be fine, eg 1-1.
The class and SE template now support including a PNG image of the student's signature. A blank PNG is provided; it can be replaced or left alone.
The SE requirements provide the boilerplate declaration for the letter of submittal, but it doesn't include the word "further." I can't find any specific wording requirements for the other programs (unlike SE), so this change is global.
SE guidelines state that there is "one space between paragraphs." The previous spacing, 1ex (height of one lowercase 'x') wasn't enough, so it's changed to 1em (width of one uppercase 'M'), which works better.
I typically do not put generated files in repos. However, I've heard that some people have difficulty running the Makefile and creating the LaTeX class. Therefore, I'm adding it for convenience.
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bump. cc: @kcbanner |
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These changes were made while I was preparing my work report for Fall 2012, but I never got around to submitting a pull request.
Summary of SE changes:
Summary of global changes:
biberinstead ofbiblatex