Need help making sure a given thesis template is in line with my uni's style requirements (margin, spacing, font, etc)

Question

I'm still in the process of getting Sunil Patel's Thesis Template.zip primed for writing. I've just overcome the unicode trouble and now need to make sure the template's in line with my university's style requirements

• Margin: left 3 cm, on the right 2.5 cm, at the top 2.5 cm, bottom 2.5 cm
• Spacing: 1.5
• Font size: 12 pt
• Font: Times New Roman
• Footnotes: single-spaced and font size: 10 pt

Where exactly do I need to make these changes (if changes are necessary at all)?

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For instance, I grep'ed (the *.zip's contents) for "margin" and got the following list:

Chapters/Chapter1.tex

lstpatch.sty

Missing Packages/fancyhdr.sty

Missing Packages/subfigure.sty

Missing Packages/caption.sty

Missing Packages/natbib.sty

Missing Packages/listings.sty

Missing Packages/vmargin.sty

Thesis.cls

plus some log-files.

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PS: If you happen to know of an alternative template which looks similar to Sunil's and which might be (even more) beginner-friendly, plz do let me know.

Answer 1

I'm not quite sure, if this breaks some uses of \footnotesize in other packages, but it works so far:

\documentclass[12pt]{article} %Font size set to 12pt
\usepackage[left=3cm,right=2.5cm,top=2.5cm,bottom=2.5cm]{geometry} %Margins set
\usepackage[onehalfspacing]{setspace} %Linespacing to 150%
\usepackage{fontspec} %%%% Requires XeLaTeX, not LaTeX
\setmainfont{Times New Roman} %Set Times New Roman as the main font
\renewcommand{\footnotesize}{\fontsize{10pt}{10pt}\selectfont} %Sets the footnote in 10pt with single spacing
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\lipsum[1-30]
foobar\footnote{\lipsum[31]}
\lipsum[32-40]
\end{document}

Attention: This uses the fontspec package, which requires xelatex or lualatex instead of latex. If you cannot use one of these engines, you have to find another way to use Times New Roman. The rest of the code is independant from that, imho.

BTW: If you use math in your document, you should also set the math fonts accordingly. For xelatex and lualatex, this can be achieved with the unicode-math package and the font XITS Math.