new version of the MNRAS LaTeX package

[Phillip Helbig (undress to reply)]

I found this just by chance, so perhaps not all are aware of it:

http://www.ras.org.uk/news-and-press/2641-new-version-if-the-mnras-latex-package

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New version of the MNRAS LaTeX package
Last Updated on Friday, 29 May 2015 16:50
Published on Friday, 29 May 2015 16:44

MNRAS coverThe journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
(MNRAS) encourages authors to prepare their papers using the LaTeX
document preparation software. MNRAS provides a LaTeX package (called
'mnras') which allows authors to approximate the final appearance of the
journal. It includes numerous features to simplify the preparation of
papers.

MNRAS has just completed a major update to this package, version 3.0,
which includes:

* Additonal functionality, including links and a new \ion command
* Improvements to page layout, positioning of figures etc.
* Updated appearance to be closer to the final journal
* Better BibTeX support, including automatic treament of arxiv
preprints, three-author papers and journal shortcuts used by NASA ADS
* Completely rewritten documentation
* A new template to ease writing a new paper

Authors are encouraged to use the new package and updated style files.
It can be downloaded from this directory at the Comprehensive TeX
Archive Network (CTAN).
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The CTAN link is http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/mnras/ .

[Martin Hardcastle]

In article <mlsjbe$80f$3...@news.kjsl.com>,

Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <hel...@asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
>I found this just by chance, so perhaps not all are aware of it:

It was mentioned a while back on the Facebook astronomers group (which
has an almost completely orthogonal set of problems to this one).

I've just tried it for an almost-complete paper and it's certainly an
improvement. At least the bug with the order of single-column and
double-column figures and tables has gone: that's been annoying me for
more than 20 years and I have lost count of the number of times[*]
I've had to explain it to collaborators. And they now actually tell
people how to use the mandatory Times fonts, which might finally put
an end papers set in horrible CMR. A slight annoyance is that it
appears that \cite in figure captions now needs \protect.

Martin

[*] rigel:/home/mjh/papers> grep mn2e */*.tex | sed -e 's/\/.*//' | uniq | wc
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