[Journal] About the Journal latex file and other though

[Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)]

On 31-Mar-08, at 10:48 PM, Micha Silver wrote:
>>
>> Agreed.  Each editor will need to be responsible for their own  
>> folders to make this happen.
> So where should editors dump the author's original writings  
> (usually in some other document format)? These are not necessary  
> for compiling the final Journal, but Tyler asked that they be kept  
> in svn as a backup of the source.

Hi Micha,
Good point.  Let's keep them in a subfolder called 'originals'.  As  
we switch over to the OJS, we will automatically have a good archive  
of the originals.  I think this will be an important "trail" to have  
especially for those who want peer review, etc.

> I have a feeling that the two column layout also wastes some space.  
> Perhaps towards the next issue, I could try a test latex compile  
> with a one column layout to see if there's any substantial difference.

Anyone is welcome - anytime - to try improving the layout and show  
the rest of us how it goes. I have a copy of the layout for the Free  
Software Magazine and am interested in trying to use it as a basis  
for a version 2 of our layout.  Once we have something more print- 
worthy, it would be cool to have it put online through print-on- 
demand publisher so people can buy a hardcopy of a set of volumes  
(e.g. 2007 compilation).

Tyler