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Revision as of 17:57, 23 February 2010
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.