Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Master Document works! (For the most part)

Today I put everything together in a master document, and added a table of contents. It went fairly well. Here are a few pointers:

  1. Make sure you check the option in the table of contents to adjust it manually. It saved a bunch of effort to make it look decent, and I needed a pagebreak to get it on a different page from the title page.
  2. Pay attention to "following page" styles. I had to make sure the page style following the title page ("first page" style) was my dissertation page style, and not the "default" style.
  3. I have run into a strange problem where I have a number of blank pages before figures. Kind of strange.
  4. Making a master document, and then PDF'ing it is really awesome!
For my references I imported my BibTex database from JabRef into Zotero. I then exported it to RTF using the "American Psychologial Association" citation style, which has a nice, full citation format. Then, I developed a "bibliography entry" style, applied it to the entire collection, and it came out pretty well.

Monday, August 4, 2008

Solution to Numbering Problems

I was laying out my chapter and section headings. I thought I had it all down, defining a numbering system named "0 Diss Numbering." The "0" on the front was just so that it would come up first. I then re-defined Headings 1-3 to use this numbering, as well as fonts, small caps, and centering as needed. But, the numbering was not working right. I couldn't figure out how to do it. Finally, failing at my own abilities, I turned to the power of Google, and came up with this posting.

Handling numbering the right way.

Checking over, I needed to go the Tools->Outline Numbering tab, and define each level 1-3 as corresponding to Heading 1-3. It is now working well.