Occasionally, a document will be formatted with type sizes that have no corresponding font in the TeX font directory. Our installation of TeX is configured to create the new fonts and install them in the proper system directory. If you process a document for the first time that requires new font sizes you will see the fonts being created. Subsequent processing will occur much quicker because the fonts will then be in place. There is a great deal more to using the dissertation macro.
Foils are large-font text pages suitable for overhead transparencies.
The only requirement is that the images be formatted as Encapsulated PostScript or PostScript. There are several macro packages that assist in including figures. The information included here is for the University of Alabama central computing facility as it was configured on the document date. It may or may not apply to other Unix systems.