Styles suitable for a simple Journal
Brian Wichmann
various journals. However, I have no idea how to select one when
wishing to convert a small, simple Journal to LaTeX.
Scott Pakin
The reason there are so many is that each journal has its own formatting
requirements. If you're not submitting to a particular journal then it
shouldn't matter which you use. In fact, the standard "article"
document class ought to work just fine.
-- Scott
Michael Lake
I am currently using the article class for the Journal of the Royal
Society of New South Wales (in Australia) and have made simple commands
and a few redefined ones using LaTeX. I have all those in a styles file
which contains all the \includepackage commands and any settings to
override the article class. I pull it in with \input{rsnsw-styles.tex}.
I am moving that over to the memoir class as it is more easily
customised. I suggest just using the memoir class and modifying that to
suit what you what to achieve in your Journals look and feel.
Mike
Brian Wichmann
> Society of New South Wales (in Australia) and have made simple commands
> and a few redefined ones using LaTeX. I have all those in a styles file
> which contains all the \includepackage commands and any settings to
> override the article class. I pull it in with \input{rsnsw-styles.tex}.
>
> I am moving that over to the memoir class as it is more easily
> customised. I suggest just using the memoir class and modifying that to
> suit what you what to achieve in your Journals look and feel.
>
> Mike
Thanks for that. The previous poster to the one above misundestood my
question.
I want LaTeX styles as an editor of the simple journal - I actually
don't mind how they submist articles (well, not much).
So is the memoir style suitable for the entire Journal??
Brian.
Robin Fairbairns
>Thanks for that. The previous poster to the one above misundestood my
>question. I want LaTeX styles as an editor of the simple journal - I
>actually don't mind how they submist articles (well, not much).
(you will, you will...)
>So is the memoir style suitable for the entire Journal??
memoir more by way of "expression of a family of styles" (aiui). a
highly configurable way of expressing a whole bunch of layouts.
perhaps it would be worth considering exactly what you _do_ want (in
terms of existing journals), and then finding whether there's a
published macro package for one of them.
however, i actually find it rather hard to believe that _no-one_ other
than you is going to want to be involved in designing the journal.
they may have said that, at one stage, but they'll sure as hell
complain once you actually do something. before you commit to
anything (particularly to writing anything) consult a sufficient group
of interested parties that you can later claim "it was agreed by the
publication design group" (or some such twaddle ;-).
--
Robin (the partially spineless) Fairbairns, Cambridge