Optimal Foraging Theory Revisited
by Theodore P. Pavlic
The Ohio State University, Spring 2007, M.S. Fulfillment

(c) Copyright 2007 by Theodore P. Pavlic 

Instructions for building the thesis and the defense
presentation are below.


===== CONTENTS =====

1. LaTeX Packages used in Thesis
2. Building the Thesis from Command Line
3. Building the Thesis from VIM
4. LaTeX Packages used in Defense Presentation
5. Building the Defense Presentation from Command Line


===== 1. LATEX PACKAGES USED IN THESIS =====

Packages used in the thesis include:

index, multicol, prettyref, hyperref, color, ifthen, calc, twoopt,
natbib, authorindex, tabls, booktabs, paralist, amssymb, amsfonts,
amsmath, amscd, mathrsfs, subfig, graphicx, pict2e, osudissert96

I have modified the osudissert96 has been modified slightly. These
modifications update the package for the 2007 thesis guidelines; they
also make the dedication section compatible with hyperref bookmarks. It
is a good idea to use the osudissert96 that is included in this
directory (the osudissert96-mods.sty has been modified slightly from its
original form).


===== 2. BUILDING THE THESIS FROM COMMAND LINE =====

Because the thesis is a book consisting of multiple parts
with lots of automatically generated backmatter, the generation of the
actual document is complex. One pass is as follows:

pdflatex optimal_foraging_theory
makeindex optimal_foraging_theory.idx
makeindex -o optimal_foraging_theory.gls -s optimal_foraging_theory.gst -t optimal_foraging_theory.glg optimal_foraging_theory.glo
makeindex -o optimal_foraging_theory.acn -s optimal_foraging_theory.ast -t optimal_foraging_theory.alg optimal_foraging_theory.acr
makeindex -o optimal_foraging_theory.tem -s optimal_foraging_theory.tst -t optimal_foraging_theory.tlg optimal_foraging_theory.ter 
bibtex optimal_foraging_theory
authorindex optimal_foraging_theory

This sequence of commands has been loaded into build_thesis (for
standard UNIX-oriented operating systems) and build_thesis.bat (for
backward Windoze/DOS operating systems). Therefore, you can try:

build_thesis

OR (depending on your PATH):

./build_thesis

It would be a good idea to run this five or six times to make sure all
references are correct.


===== 3. BUILDING THE THESIS FROM VIM =====

I put the thesis presentation together with VIM 7.0 using the
VIM-LaTeX package (for VIM 6 and above) available at:

http://vim-latex.sourceforge.net/

I modified the latexSuite20060325 release (i.e., from March 25, 2006) of
VIM-LaTeX by replacing 

~/vimfiles/ftplugins/latex-suite/folding.vim
~/vimfiles/ftplugins/latex-suite/compiler.vim
~/vimfiles/ftplugins/latex-suite/texrc

with folding.vim, compiler.vim, and texrc, respectively, from this
directory. This makes the thesis look nice when opening VIM (it is
folded properly) and allows me to build it with:

\ll

In most cases, this will build a fresh PDF completely (i.e., it will
usually run the build process for the appropriate number of times). Of
course, you will need to make sure your g:Tex_CompileRule_* variables
are set correctly for your system.


===== 4. LATEX PACKAGES USED IN DEFENSE PRESENTATION =====

Packages used in this defense presentation include:

natbib, bibentry, subfig, graphicx, pict2e, color, pstricks, pst-node,
ifthen, calc, twoopt, tabls, booktabs, amssymb, amsfonts, amsmath,
amscd, accents, mathrsfs, powerdot

However, I don't really think that twoopt is needed for the defense. I'm
pretty sure I just included it as part of a copy-and-paste from the
thesis.


===== 5. BUILDING THE DEFENSE PRESENTATION FROM COMMAND LINE =====

Of course, since this document has self references in it, you should
probably LaTeX it a few times. Because pstricks are used in the thesis
defense to get some of the snazzy graphics effects, the defense
presentation CANNOT be built with pdflatex. Therefore, run standard
latex and then use a distiller to go from ps to pdf. For example:

latex thesis_defense
latex thesis_defense
dvipdf thesis_defense

OR

latex thesis_defense
latex thesis_defense
dvips thesis_defense
ps2pdf thesis_defense

Or any other way you want to do it.