[1758] in Athena Bugs
A small change in Scribe thesis template for this term?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dryfoo@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Feb 9 14:53:11 1989
From: <dryfoo@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: paul@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: user_services@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, geer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU,
Date: Thu, 09 Feb 89 14:52:37 EST
} From: <paul@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
} Date: Wed, 8 Feb 89 18:46:31 EST
} To: user_services@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
} Cc: geer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
} Subject: A small change in Scribe thesis template for this term?
}
} Anne Hunter (EECS Undergrad Department) says that she has tried for some
} time to get Athena to change the copyright statement in the thesis
} template so that Undergrads do not turn in theses saying "Copyright MIT"
} instead of "Copyright Joe Student, the author grants MIT permission
} ...". She (and probably the Physics Ugrad office) has to make many
} students retype their title page every term, and they grouse about it.
}
} I have a xerox of the correct format from EECS, if someone would like to
} the setup more quickly, definitively, and assuredly without side effects
} than I could. I'm not a Scribe whiz anymore (haven't used it since
} 1985) and would like to squeeze this into 6.1. I've already told Anne
} that I could do it but not for this term.
}
} Dan - who might I annoy who could do this easily ?
}
} -Paul
In the Scribe Thesis Minicourse, we point the students to the directory:
/usr/athena/lib/scribe/thesis/
Assuming that this is still the correct directory for the thesis
template files, here's what it looks like:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
total 49
drwxrwxr-x 2 root 512 Jan 23 17:18 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root 512 Jan 23 09:19 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 618 Apr 29 1988 Makefile
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 4441 Apr 29 1988 README
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 723 Apr 29 1988 biography.mss
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 553 Apr 29 1988 chapter.mss
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 362 Apr 29 1988 dedication.mss
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 1464 Apr 29 1988 frontpage.mss
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 535 Apr 29 1988 introduction.mss
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 2056 Apr 29 1988 mitfig.lib
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 17 Jan 23 17:18 mitfor.lib -> mitfor.lib.sparse
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 7031 Apr 29 1988 mitfor.lib.crowded
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 6985 Apr 29 1988 mitfor.lib.sparse
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 14833 Apr 29 1988 mitthe.mak
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 3767 Apr 29 1988 thesis.bib
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 1889 Apr 29 1988 thesis.mss
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The file we're interested in here is frontpage.mss Here's what it looks
like (in part, comments omitted):
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@Part[FrontPage, Root "thesis.mss"]
@ThesisFront[
Title = "A Sample Thesis",
Author = "Joe Random User",
PrevDegrees = "",
Department = "Electrical Engineering and Computer Science",
Degree = "Bachelor of Science",
GraduationMonth = "June",
GraduationDay = "3",
GraduationYear = "1985",
CopyrightTo = "Massachusetts Institute of Technology",
ThesisSupervisor = "Professor Whatz Isname",
ThesisSupervisorTitle = "Professor of Electrical Engineering
and Computer Science",
AcceptedBy = "Professor Big Whig",
AcceptedByTitle = "Chairman, Undergraduate Thesis Committee",
Abstract = <This is an abstract.
It can have as many paragraphs as your want.
And can have @b[bolding].>
]
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
All the student needs to do is to modify the line
CopyrightTo = "Massachusetts Institute of Technology",
so that it contains the desired text within the quotes. I have just
tried this myself with a sample thesis, and it works perfectly.
Of course, if there is a *standard* copyright message that should
replace the current one in nearly all cases, then the sample info within
the quotes should be changed to reflect this. If the policy varies from
department to department, then I would recommend that each department
tell it thesis students to be sure to modify the text appropriately.
Changing the Thesis template files can only be done by their owner, in
this case identified as `root'. I'll let someone else track them down.
As long as we're banging on thesis, I would also recommend that we
change the line:
@Device[lptln]
to be:
@Device[PostScript]
for obvious reasons.
Hope this helps.
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