2 Introduction

Writing a thesis should be all about research and not about how to format the text. This class file should make the formatting part a little bit easier. The idea of the file is to read the report class and change all the things that the Graduate School wants differently (which are quite a lot). To accomplish this we use existing LaTeX 2 packages as far as possible. The following packages must exist on your system; the dates in parentheses give the dates of the oldest version this class was tested with. Since they are all standard packages, this should not be a problem; otherwise they can be found e. g. in the TeX Catalogue Online [6].

• geometry (1997/02/17)
• keyval (1995/09/21)
• setspace (1998/11/26) Although it should not be necessary, you can use the environments singlespace and doublespace to change the line spacing.
• indentfirst (1995/11/23)
• fancyhdr (1998/08/24) In general, we use the page style standard. For pages with chapter headings, we use plain and for follow-up pages in the table of contents etc. followup. The styles plain and empty are defined in the same way.
• enumerate (1994/01/31)
• ifthen (1996/03/22)
• ulem (1997/04/21) You can use \uline{<text> } to underline <text> . The documentation of the ulem package provides more information.
• sectsty (1999/04/12) Since underlining in section headings is rather nontrivial, we use sectsty to take care of this.
• footmisc (1998/05/12)

Furthermore we copied code from some LaTeX base files and changed it or just coded something by ourselves. We tried to take care of most of the formatting instructions of the Graduate School, but we did not add any new functionality like an environment for a list of abbreviations. There are enough LaTeX packages dealing with these issues.

If you find a bug or error in the class file, please do not change the file clthesis.cls without changing its name (in order to avoid confusion with different file versions with the same name). But there are better solutions anyway. If you need something changed which might be of general interest write an email to the author and it might make its way into the next version. Otherwise you can copy a definition from clthesis.cls to a personal style file, e. g. mystyle.sty, change it there and load it with \usepackage{mystyle}.

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