New USM Thesis LaTeX Class Files

I just uploaded the new USM Thesis LaTeX class files (usmthesis 1.2) at http://liantze.googlepages.com/latextypesetting#usmthesis, to be compatible with the new thesis guidelines effective from Dec 16 2007 onwards.

Major changes:

• Body font is now Times Roman for serif type, Helvetica for sans serif type, and TX Typewriter for typewriter font.
• Bottom page margin increased to 4.0cm.
• Page number now placed 1.0cm from bottom edge of paper.
• All text on title page are now in bold.
• Title of bibliography/references is now "REFERENCES".
• Introduced new "plate" float and "List of Plates".
• List of Publications is now moved to after appendices.
• Re-formatting of the table of contents:
• all text are unformatted (chapter headings are neither in bold nor using larger font size
• otted leader between titles and page number
• larger separation between (sub)section numbers and titles to resemble the sample in the guidelines more closely
• Fixed bug in definition of \chapter to honour short title in \chapter[short title]{full title}

Enjoy!

(p/s I've yet to blog about our recent participation in the 11th International Conference on Translation in KL... I wonder if I'll ever get round to it?)