Overview
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The "disser" package provides LaTeX classes, bibliography styles and document
templates for typesetting dissertations and author's abstracts that would
satisfy requirements of dissertation councils and High Certification
Commission of Russian Federation.


Recommended packages and programs
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It is recommended to install the following third party LaTeX packages:
amsfonts, amsmath, amssymb, caption, cmap, graphicx, ifpdf, natbib,
oberdiek, hyperref, hypernat, subfig, wrapfig, and packages for russian
language support in LaTeX.

For typesetting documents using Times font family you should install
pscyr or cyrtimes (text fonts), txfonts or mtpro (math fonts).

For automated processing of figures you should install the following programs:
Ghostscript, epstool and sam2p.


Downloads and updates
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disser is available on CTAN:
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/disser/

Project page at Sourceforge:
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/disser/

ZIP file with sources can be downloaded at:
  http://www.ctan.org/get/macros/latex/contrib/disser.zip

ZIP file with compiled sources and documentation sorted in a
TDS (TeX Directory Structure) tree is available on Sourceforge
(look for disser.tds.zip in Downloads section):
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/disser/

Source code repositories of disser:
  http://mercurial.intuxication.org/hg/disser/
  http://bitbucket.org/sky/disser/
  http://disser.hg.sourceforge.net/hgweb/disser/

The latest revision of the package can be obtained by downloading
autogenerated archive from one of these mirrors:
  http://mercurial.intuxication.org/hg/disser/archive/tip.zip
  http://bitbucket.org/sky/disser/get/tip.zip


Installation
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1. Installation from sources

In Unix-like environment:
  env DESTDIR=/path/to/texmf make install

In Windows:
  set DESTDIR=disk:\path\to\texmf
  nomake install

Here /path/to/texmf is the path to TeX directory tree.

After installation you should update the filename database with the command
  mktexlsr

2. Installation from ZIP archive in TDS format

The ZIP file disser.tds.zip contains files sorted in a TDS tree. This means
you can directly unpack this file inside directory with your TeX installation.

Example:
  cd /path/to/texmf
  unzip /download/path/disser.tds.zip
  mktexlsr


License
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Copyright (c) 2004-2009 Stanislav Kruchinin

It may be distributed and/or modified under the
conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3
of this license or (at your option) any later version.
The latest version of this license is in
   http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt
and version 1.3 or later is part of all distributions of LaTeX
version 2003/12/01 or later.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.