1. Introduction
---------------

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


2. Required packages and programs
---------------------------------

For installation and working with documents you will need the following
third-party packages:
amsfonts, amsmath, amssymb, caption, cmap, graphicx, ifpdf, kvoptions, natbib,
hyperref, hypernat, subfig, wrapfig, and packages for russian language support
in LaTeX.

For typesetting documents using Times font family you should install the
following packages: 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.


3. Downloads and updates
------------------------

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-<version>.tds.zip file in Downloads section):
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/disser/

Public source code repositories of this project:
  http://mercurial.intuxication.org/hg/disser/
  http://bitbucket.org/sky/disser/
  http://disser.hg.sourceforge.net/hgweb/disser/

The latest revision of package source code 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


4. Installation
---------------

1. Installation from sources

Enter the following commands in the command prompt

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

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

Here /path/to/texmf and disk:\path\to\texmf are paths to TeX directory
tree. After installation you should update the filename database with the
command
  mktexlsr
if you install the package to user's directory "%APPDATA%\MiKTeX\2.9"
or
  mktexlsr --admin
if you install the package to one of the common directories, like
"%programfiles%\MiKTeX 2.9" or "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\MiKTeX\2.9".

Examples of commands for MiKTeX 2.9.

Installation for all users:
  set DESTDIR=%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\MiKTeX\2.9
  nomake install
  mktexlsr --admin

Installation for current user only:
  set DESTDIR=%APPDATA%\MiKTeX\2.9
  nomake install
  mktexlsr


2. Installation from ZIP archive in TDS format

The ZIP file disser-<version>.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-<version>.tds.zip
  mktexlsr


5. License
----------

Copyright (c) 2004-2013 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.
