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University of Michigan Rackham Graduate School Dissertation Template (unofficial)
https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/university-of-michigan-dissertation-and-thesis-template-unofficial/tpnjzndnrzmf
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[FEATURE] Support specifying your legal name for the Identifier/Copyright Page #19

Closed bryant1410 closed 5 months ago

bryant1410 commented 5 months ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Rackham's Formatting Guidelines allow you to specify your preferred name on the title page but ask you to use your legal name for the next page (Identifier/Copyright Page).

Some people (including me) use different preferred and legal names.

Describe the solution you'd like

It'd be cool to have an option to set your legal name. It'd be used for the second page, while the first page would just use the usual \author{...} variable.

This new option could default to the author value so as not to break backward compatibility, and it's a sensible default value.

Describe alternatives you've considered

An alternative is not to support this at all. But I think it's cool to support this.

Additional context

Thanks for this project! By the way, I just did the Pre-defense Dissertation Review and all feedback I got was unrelated to this template (things like tables and other things I fucked up from the template myself). So this template is really solid!

meluso commented 5 months ago

Glad your predefense went well Santiago! This is a good idea, you're right; I'm sure plenty of folks will benefit from this feature.

I agree that it would be good to default to the author field if legalname is empty. I'll suggest changes in the pull request for this logic and the associated documentation.

meluso commented 5 months ago

Oh, my mistake! You've already set things up to default to the author's name and have added commenting to make it clear to users what their options are. Thank you!