lsutitle.sty

%%
%% This is file `lsutitle.sty', a LaTeX class derived from `book.cls'.
%%
\NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}[1995/12/01]
\ProvidesPackage{lsutitle}[2020/02/01 LSU Thesis Title Package]
% \title and \author already defined in latex.ltx to modify \@title and
% \@author, but an empty \author should be an error instead of a warning,
% so for that we would want:
%%\def\@author{\@latex@error{No \noexpand\author given}\@ehc}}
% However, ``amsbook'' redefines \author to instead modify \authors. Thus
% we choose between \@author and \authors (first one that isn't empty),
% otherwise produce the error.
\let\@author\@empty
\let\authors\@empty
\def\@@author{\ifx\@author\@empty\ifx\authors\@empty\@latex@error{No \noexpand\author given}\@ehc\else\authors\fi\else\@author\fi}
% We now similarly define other elements of the title page.
\def\thesistype#1{\gdef\@thesistype{#1}}
\def\@thesistype{Thesis}
\def\soughtdegree#1{\gdef\@soughtdegree{#1}}
\def\@soughtdegree{Doctor of Philosophy}
\def\department#1{\gdef\@department{#1}}
\def\@department{\@latex@error{No \noexpand\department given}\@ehc}
\def\degrees#1{\gdef\@degrees{#1}}
\def\@degrees{\@latex@warning@no@line{No \noexpand\degrees given}}
\def\graduationdate#1{\gdef\@graduationdate{#1}}
\def\@graduationdate{\@latex@warning@no@line{No \noexpand\graduationdate given}}

\renewcommand\maketitle{\begin{titlepage}%
  \renewcommand\baselinestretch{}\normalsize
  \centering
  \begingroup
    \LARGE\bfseries\MakeUppercase{\@title}\par
  \endgroup
  \vspace*{\stretch{1}}
  \begingroup
    A \@thesistype\\
    \ \\
    Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the\\
    Louisiana State University and\\
    Agricultural and Mechanical College\\
    in partial fulfillment of the\\
    requirements for the degree of\\
    \@soughtdegree\\
    \ \\
    in\\
    \ \\
    \@department\\
  \endgroup
  \vspace*{\stretch{1}}
  \begingroup
    by\\
    \@@author\\
    \@degrees\\
    \@graduationdate
  \endgroup
  \end{titlepage}%
}

%% For setting landscape page numbers (required by LSU), the following trick
%% is based off an idea by David Carlisle in
%% https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/278113/single-landscape-page-with-page-number-at-the-bottom
%% It is included here in lsutitle because putting it in the document class
%% would make it harder for a user to change document classes. It could also
%% be put in a separate package ``lsulandscape'' that could even depend on
%% ``pdflscape'', but putting it here reduces the number of files. To use
%% this, one does
%%  \usepackage{pdflscape}
%%  \begin{landscape}
%%    Landscape material.
%%    \fillandplacepagenumber
%%  \end{landscape}
%%
%% The code goes to the bottom of the page, creates a box of height/depth 0,
%% aligned on an internal box of height/depth 0, and then with the page
%% number sticking out below precisely the amount determined by \footskip.
\def\fillandplacepagenumber{%
  \par\thispagestyle{empty}%
  \vbox to\z@{\vss}\vfill
  \vbox to\z@{\baselineskip\z@
    \hb@xt@\linewidth{\hss}%
    \baselineskip\footskip
    \hb@xt@\linewidth{%
      \hfil\thepage\hfil}\vss}}


%% Epigraph (quotation) support.
\usepackage{epigraph}
\setlength\beforeepigraphskip{0pt}
\setlength\afterepigraphskip{0pt}
\setlength\epigraphrule{0pt}
%% For the next line we typically want
%\renewcommand\epigraphsize{\singlespacing\small}
%% or we might want
%\if@lsuthesisdoublespace
%\renewcommand\epigraphsize{\singlespacing\small}
%\fi
%% but we can't use \singlespacing nor refer to \if@lsuthesisdoublespace
%% because the user might not be using the ``lsuthesis'' class. (That's
%% the entire reason ``lsutitle'' was split into a separate package!)
%% Thus we need a different way to test. When the ``setspace'' package
%% isn't loaded, \baselinestretch should be empty, so that's the condition
%% we test. This isn't fool-proof. The value might be 1 with some other
%% document class, or some other document class might itself load
%% ``setspace'' and do something. But in those cases all the spacing will
%% likely differ from ``lsuthesis'', so our fixups will anyhow be incorrect.
\renewcommand\epigraphsize{\ifx\baselinestretch\@empty\else\def\baselinestretch{1}\normalsize\vskip\baselineskip\fi\small}
%% When an epigraph is set between a \chapter and \section, too much space
%% is produced afterwards. This helper macro fixes the spacing.
\def\shrinkpostepigraphspacing{%
  \ifx\baselinestretch\@empty
  \vspace{-\baselineskip}%
  \else
  \vspace{-\dimexpr\baselineskip/\baselinestretch\relax}%
  \fi}
%% The user must explicitly invoke the helper macro:
%%  \chapter{Title}
%%  \epigraph{Quote}{Acknowledgment}
%%  \shrinkpostepigraphspacing
%%  \section{Title}
%% This is not needed if a regular paragraph follows the epigraph.


%% LSU allows vertically centered pages in the frontmatter, to be used
%% for copyright page, dedication page, and epigraph page.
\newenvironment{centeredpage}{%
  \chapter*{}\begin{center}\vspace*{\stretch{1}}}{%
  \vspace*{\stretch{1}}\end{center}}


\endinput
%%
%% End of file `lsutitle.sty'.