LaTex Conversion Guidelines

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Preliminary LaTex Conversion Guidelines

  • make a folder under the section (case_studies, peer_review, etc) using the name of the first author. Work there.
  • 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"
  • Extract images from PDF originals using 'pdfimages' - convert ppm and pbm to png using convert as above.
  • Specify widths for images as fractions of \textwidth so they fit in columns, eg \includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{foo.pdf}
  • Floats (tables and figures) that need to span two columns should be in \begin{table*} or \begin{figure*} environments. Single column floats don't need the star. I've seen tables disappear until I made them the starred version. The multicol package docs mentions this.
  • Save articles provided as DOC or ODT files as ASCII text files and rename with a TEX file extension.
  • Saving text from PDF can result in non-ASCII single-character codes for ligatures - ff, fi etc - replace them!
  • 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. But this breaks within the OSGeo journal master TeX file structure.
  • 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).