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21. AN EXAMPLE THESIS DESIGNIf you actually try any of the above code and it does not work, then I may have made atypo or two, or maybe you have, or perhaps we both have. In any event, the code is moreof a sketch of what might be needed than a prescription of how it must be done.21.4 COMMENTSHaving read through the requirements you will have realised that whatever committeesset them had not advanced beyond the 19th century technology of the typewriter. 2 WhenI wrote my thesis some forty years ago it was, of necessity, single sided so that carboncopies could be made by the typist (who would have objected strongly to having to typethe hundred and fifty or so pages six times). I must admit, though, that the sixth copywas almost too faint and blurry to be read comfortably even though the typist had usedthin paper and kept replacing the carbon paper. In this day of double sided printers anddouble sided copiers I see no reason except inertia to keep a single sided requirement.Many students, and faculty members, have beaten their heads against the diehards andvery rarely have they managed to prevail.In contrast to the ASU style I have a copy of a doctoral thesis [Sne04] for Vrije Universiteit,Amsterdam. This is a professionally printed 100 page, double sided, glossy paperboundbook with an attractive coloured photograph of a sunset on the front and rearcovers. The page size is 40.5pc by 57pc with spine and top margins of 5pc and foredgeand bottom margins of 7pc. 3 The textblock, then, is 28.5 by 45pc set with 45 lines of a 10ptLucida Bright seriffed font. Chapter and section heads are in a sans font, with the chapterheads larger than the section heads. Caption names are a bold sans with the caption text inan italic. Headers on the verso pages are the chapter title with the section title as the rectoheader. The page numbers are in the footers by the foredge margin. Altogether, a muchmore appealing production than Archibald Smythe University will permit.2 Remington sold their first commercial typewriter in 1873 which even then had the QWERTY keyboard layout.By 1910 typewriter designs were pretty well standardised.3 Professional printers use points and picas for their measurements.376