LaTex Conversion Guidelines - Revision history

Tmitchell at 21:08, 16 September 2010

2010-09-16T21:08:27Z

Wiki-Barryrowlingson: /* Preliminary LaTex Conversion Guidelines */

2010-03-03T12:50:26Z

Preliminary LaTex Conversion Guidelines

Wiki-Barryrowlingson: /* Preliminary LaTex Conversion Guidelines */

2010-03-02T10:25:52Z

Preliminary LaTex Conversion Guidelines

Wiki-Barryrowlingson: /* Preliminary LaTex Conversion Guidelines */

2010-02-25T12:36:27Z

Preliminary LaTex Conversion Guidelines

Neteler: +Category: Journal

2010-02-24T14:21:08Z

+Category: Journal

Wiki-Barryrowlingson: /* Preliminary LaTex Conversion Guidelines */

2010-02-24T13:08:46Z

Preliminary LaTex Conversion Guidelines

Wiki-Sunburned Surveyor: New page: ==Preliminary LaTex Conversion Guidelines== * Convert all images for the article to PDF files using this command:"convert foo.tif foo.pdf" * Save articles provided as DOC or ODT files as...

2010-02-24T00:57:33Z

New page: ==Preliminary LaTex Conversion Guidelines== * Convert all images for the article to PDF files using this command:"convert foo.tif foo.pdf" * Save articles provided as DOC or ODT files as...

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==Preliminary LaTex Conversion Guidelines==

* Convert all images for the article to PDF files using this command:"convert foo.tif foo.pdf"

* Save articles provided as DOC or ODT files as ASCII text files and rename with a TEX file extension.

* Replace all smart quotes with back-tick and apostrophe

* Replace & with \&

* Replace - with -- where needed. Note that DOC and ODT documents often contain – characters which aren’t ASCII - characters. These may be invisible in LaTeX.

* Add \section and \subsection headings

* Reformat table text. Add captions and labels. Also reference the table labels
in the text.

* Add \begin{figure} blocks for figures. Add captions and labels for the figures. Also reference the labels in the text.

* Wrap lists in itemize or enumerate blocks.

* Set abstract in \begin{abstract} block.

* Move “Acknowledgements” section to just before the “References” section.

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	* Now remove the draft option and re-run pdflatex (twice, at least).		* Now remove the draft option and re-run pdflatex (twice, at least).

		+	==From OSGeo Wiki==
		+	There is a tab for logged in users to convert a wiki page into latex. Select the latex/pdf tab and you will have some options to choose from. Many of them are unneeded or do not work, but they help if you choose:
		+	* Documentclass Article...
		+	* Remove Template and Parserfunction calls
		+	* Export Article... In a Textarea
		+	Press '''Start Export''' and the next page shows the contents in latex form.
		+
		+	Note that images are not included in this final output, so you will have to save those images and manually add them properly to the output tex.

	[[Category: Journal]]		[[Category: Journal]]

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	* Move “Acknowledgements” section to just before the “References” section.		* Move “Acknowledgements” section to just before the “References” section.
		+
		+	== Per-Article Bibliographies ==
		+
		+	This uses the chapterbib package.
		+
		+	* Create a title.bib file in your folder and stick \bibliography{section/author/title} or similar in your title.tex file.
		+
		+	* input your file from the main using \cbinput{section/author/title}
		+
		+	* Run pdflatex on the master file with the draft option:
		+
		+	\documentclass[draft,a4paper]{report}
		+
		+	this makes
		+
		+	* Run bibtex on each .aux file that has bibliographies - this runs bibtex on all subdir .aux files (and not the top-level .aux)
		+
		+	find .// -name 'aux' \| while read line ;do bibtex $line; done
		+
		+	* Now remove the draft option and re-run pdflatex (twice, at least).
		+

	[[Category: Journal]]		[[Category: Journal]]

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	* name your TeX file according to the title. Add to SVN and checkin.		* name your TeX file according to the title. Add to SVN and checkin.
		+
		+	* If this is an article, wrap it in \begin{article} \end{article}

	* Convert all images for the article to PNG files using this command:"convert foo.tif foo.png"		* Convert all images for the article to PNG files using this command:"convert foo.tif foo.png"

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 ==Preliminary LaTex Conversion Guidelines==
-* Convert all images for the article to PDF files using this command:"convert foo.tif foo.pdf"
+* make a folder under the section (case_studies, peer_review, etc) using the name of the first author. Work there.
 * Specify widths for images as fractions of \textwidth so they fit in columns, eg \includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{foo.pdf}

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 * Add \section and \subsection headings
-* Reformat table text. Add captions and labels. Also reference the table labels
+* Reformat table text. Add captions and labels. Also reference the table labels in the text.
 * Add \begin{figure} blocks for figures. Add captions and labels for the figures. Also reference the labels in the text.
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 * Move “Acknowledgements” section to just before the “References” section.

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 * Convert all images for the article to PDF files using this command:"convert foo.tif foo.pdf"
 * Save articles provided as DOC or ODT files as ASCII text files and rename with a TEX file extension.
 * Replace all smart quotes with back-tick and apostrophe
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 * Wrap lists in itemize or enumerate blocks.
-* Set abstract in \begin{abstract} block.
+* Set abstract in \begin{abstract} block. But this breaks within the OSGeo journal master TeX file structure.
 * Move “Acknowledgements” section to just before the “References” section.