v1.13

Some bugfixes and and enhancements which have been made since last year:

• Short form of advisor’s name can now be entered as an optional argument of \principaladvisor.
• Bugfix: idecimal and jdecimal heading styles were suppressing the section numbers. Thanks to pmbean6 for this fix.
• Margin widths have been tweaked a little so that they more closely conform to the guidelines. Thanks to pmbean6 for this fix.
• If you edited the class file to get justified text back, then subsection headings were being indented in jdecimal style. This has been fixed in preparation for later changes. Thanks to pmbean6 for this fix.
• Package conflict with float package has been resolved. Thanks to pmbean6 for this fix. Those updating thesis should change listof environments to thesislist.
• Bugfix: The default setting of \parindent was being forced to 0, which was not as intended.
• Indentation for the headings has been decoupled from \parindent and is now tied to \headindent.
• Added some basic metadata (title and author) handling when hyperref is loaded. Thanks to pmbean6 for this enhancement
• Adjusted page numbering to account for removal of Dissertation Acceptance page.

v1.12

The Graduate School has switched over to an electronic submission system which renders the Dissertation Acceptance and Library Rights Statement pages obsolete. This release removes those pages. The commands which formerly generated those pages now raise an error reminding you to remove them.

v1.11

Based on feedback from Matthew Hall (which included some much appreciated code suggestions), and follow up discussions with Lauren Dupee in the Graduate School, I've made some modifications to bring things more into line with what the Graduate School wants.

• Replaced ``thesis'' with \verb=@type= on Library Rights page.
• Labels for signature lines now use the same size font as the rest of the thesis (they were formerly reduced).
• Gap between the title and the text on Dissertation Acceptance and Library Rights page has been reduced.
• Mandatory sentence at the end of the Author Biography (and which the class file produces automatically) is no longer its own paragraph.
• The default headings system has been modified to make it match more closely with the justified decimal example in the Guidelines.
• Two additional headings systems (headings and idecimal) have been added. These are based on the headings and indented decimal examples in the Guidelines.
• Improved Widow/Orphan protection in the TOC.
• Improved Widow/Orphan protection in bibliography.

While the Widow/Orphan protection has been improved, it is not perfect (as can be seen from the TOC in the Documentation). Manual adjustments may still be necessary.