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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Many questions are also answered in doc.pdf.
Q. I get an error in macros.tex that \DeclareUrlCommand can't be found.
A. Your TeX distribution has an old version of url.sty. Update your
TeX distribution. Or download a more recent version from CTAN:
http://ctan.org/get/macros/latex/contrib/misc/url.sty
and just copy it to this directory. TeX/LaTeX first look in the
current directory for all included files, and then proceed to
look in the other configured locations. You can also change the
standard locations by modifying your TEXINPUTS or texmf.cnf, but
such details are far beyond the scope of this document.
Q. I get a warning from <<<some package>>> that <<<some option>>>
is obsolete. Is this ok?
A. Yes. These options were necessary for my LaTeX installation
(MacTeX 2007), and I'd rather leave them rather than have a
student's thesis rejected because they used an older LaTeX.
Feel free to remove the options in your copy, however.
Q. Can I modify this template for use at a different university?
Can I distribute the modified template?
A. By all means. This package has been released to the public domain
which means that you can do what you like with it!
Q. I hate that the Lists of Figures and Tables have all lines of the
entries indented by such a huge amount!
(Note: this is only enabled when 'gpscopy')
A. First, be sure to use the optional argument on \caption to provide
shortened titles for the LoF & LoT:
\caption[short and sweet]{the much more lengthy caption
possible stretching for multiple lines}
Otherwise look in ubcdiss.cls for the lines with '\@tabprefixlen'.
Comment out the lines in Option 1 and uncomment those in Option 2
to cause subsequent lines in an entry to be typeset with a hanging
indent.
Q. I'm trying to add the XXX package, but I now get LaTeX failures.
A. The ubcdiss template is fundamentally just a configuration of
of standard LaTeX packages. When conflicts occur, it's generally
because of a conflict between two different packages.
To resolve such conflicts, start out by commenting some of the
more troublesome packages. The most typical culprits are the
natbib and hyperref packages. Keep commenting out packages until
your build failures disappear. Then decide which package is the
most useful and worthy of being kept!
Notes on using XeTeX/XeLaTeX:
=============================
XeTeX is an enhanced TeX that can make use of your platform fonts.
If you have a favourite font (I'm very partial to Adobe's Minion Pro),
XeTeX provides an "easy" way to use them.
I say "easy" as many TeX distributions ship with an older version
of XeTeX/XeLaTeX, and you may need to use a more recent version of
XeTeX/XeLaTeX; I used 0.997. If you're not a somewhat proficient
C hacker, then find a capable friend. The XeTeX source can be
fetched from
http://scripts.sil.org/svn-public/xetex/TRUNK
Run the handy 'build-xetex' script there. If all goes well, you'll
have new versions of xetex, xdvipdfmx, and xdv2pdf which you'll need
to install in the right places. Note that you may need to regenerate
your formats for the new xetex binary; the easiest way seems to be:
$ sudo fmtutil-sys --refresh
If all of this seems like gobbledygook, then find a capable friend.
Please address questions to Brian de Alwis <[email protected]>