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.

1 comment:

karateka said...

Just to follow up. I have found a solution to the weird problem of empty pages being thrown up around images in Master Documents. I changed my figure captions so that they are not indented, and it seemed to do the trick. While I prefer indented figure captions, it is not worth the trouble at this point.