Changeset 565acf59 for doc/theses/andrew_beach_MMath/thesis.tex

Timestamp:

Feb 12, 2021, 12:27:38 PM (3 years ago)

Author:

Thierry Delisle <tdelisle@…>

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ADT, arm-eh, ast-experimental, enum, forall-pointer-decay, jacob/cs343-translation, master, new-ast-unique-expr, pthread-emulation, qualifiedEnum

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da3963a (diff), 52f6250 (diff)
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Merge branch 'master' of plg.uwaterloo.ca:software/cfa/cfa-cc

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• doc/theses/andrew_beach_MMath/thesis.tex (modified) (5 diffs)

doc/theses/andrew_beach_MMath/thesis.tex

@@ -45 +45 @@
 % FRONT MATERIAL
 %----------------------------------------------------------------------
-\input{thesis-frontpgs} 
+\input{thesis-frontpgs}
 
 %----------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -65 +65 @@
 A \gls{computer} could compute $\pi$ all day long. In fact, subsets of digits
 of $\pi$'s decimal approximation would make a good source for psuedo-random
-vectors, \gls{rvec} . 
+vectors, \gls{rvec} .
 
 %----------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -96 +96 @@
 
 \begin{itemize}
-\item A well-prepared PDF should be 
+\item A well-prepared PDF should be
   \begin{enumerate}
     \item Of reasonable size, {\it i.e.} photos cropped and compressed.
-    \item Scalable, to allow enlargment of text and drawings. 
-  \end{enumerate} 
+    \item Scalable, to allow enlargment of text and drawings.
+  \end{enumerate}
 \item Photos must be bit maps, and so are not scaleable by definition. TIFF and
 BMP are uncompressed formats, while JPEG is compressed. Most photos can be
 compressed without losing their illustrative value.
-\item Drawings that you make should be scalable vector graphics, \emph{not} 
+\item Drawings that you make should be scalable vector graphics, \emph{not}
 bit maps. Some scalable vector file formats are: EPS, SVG, PNG, WMF. These can
-all be converted into PNG or PDF, that pdflatex recognizes. Your drawing 
-package probably can export to one of these formats directly. Otherwise, a 
-common procedure is to print-to-file through a Postscript printer driver to 
-create a PS file, then convert that to EPS (encapsulated PS, which has a 
-bounding box to describe its exact size rather than a whole page). 
+all be converted into PNG or PDF, that pdflatex recognizes. Your drawing
+package probably can export to one of these formats directly. Otherwise, a
+common procedure is to print-to-file through a Postscript printer driver to
+create a PS file, then convert that to EPS (encapsulated PS, which has a
+bounding box to describe its exact size rather than a whole page).
 Programs such as GSView (a Ghostscript GUI) can create both EPS and PDF from
 PS files. Appendix~\ref{AppendixA} shows how to generate properly sized Matlab
 plots and save them as PDF.
 \item It's important to crop your photos and draw your figures to the size that
-you want to appear in your thesis. Scaling photos with the 
-includegraphics command will cause loss of resolution. And scaling down 
+you want to appear in your thesis. Scaling photos with the
+includegraphics command will cause loss of resolution. And scaling down
 drawings may cause any text annotations to become too small.
 \end{itemize}
- 
+
 For more information on \LaTeX\, see the uWaterloo Skills for the
-Academic Workplace \href{https://uwaterloo.ca/information-systems-technology/services/electronic-thesis-preparation-and-submission-support/ethesis-guide/creating-pdf-version-your-thesis/creating-pdf-files-using-latex/latex-ethesis-and-large-documents}{course notes}. 
+Academic Workplace \href{https://uwaterloo.ca/information-systems-technology/services/electronic-thesis-preparation-and-submission-support/ethesis-guide/creating-pdf-version-your-thesis/creating-pdf-files-using-latex/latex-ethesis-and-large-documents}{course notes}.
 \footnote{
 Note that while it is possible to include hyperlinks to external documents,
-it is not wise to do so, since anything you can't control may change over time. 
-It \emph{would} be appropriate and necessary to provide external links to 
-additional resources for a multimedia ``enhanced'' thesis. 
-But also note that if the \package{hyperref} package is not included, 
-as for the print-optimized option in this thesis template, any \cmmd{href} 
+it is not wise to do so, since anything you can't control may change over time.
+It \emph{would} be appropriate and necessary to provide external links to
+additional resources for a multimedia ``enhanced'' thesis.
+But also note that if the \package{hyperref} package is not included,
+as for the print-optimized option in this thesis template, any \cmmd{href}
 commands in your logical document are no longer defined.
 A work-around employed by this thesis template is to define a dummy
-\cmmd{href} command (which does nothing) in the preamble of the document, 
-before the \package{hyperref} package is included. 
+\cmmd{href} command (which does nothing) in the preamble of the document,
+before the \package{hyperref} package is included.
 The dummy definition is then redifined by the
 \package{hyperref} package when it is included.
@@ -138 +138 @@
 
 The classic book by Leslie Lamport \cite{lamport.book}, author of \LaTeX , is
-worth a look too, and the many available add-on packages are described by 
+worth a look too, and the many available add-on packages are described by
 Goossens \textit{et al} \cite{goossens.book}.
 
@@ -180 +180 @@
 Export Setup button in the figure Property Editor.
 
-\section{From the Command Line} 
+\section{From the Command Line}
 All figure properties can also be manipulated from the command line. Here's an
-example: 
+example:
 \begin{verbatim}
 x=[0:0.1:pi];