[Journal] Help on LaTex Syntax for Journal

[Sunburned Surveyor]

Dan,

I saw that one of the peer review articles was in LaTex already. I'll
try to take a closer look at it when I get the other articles
converted and try to build the whole journal as a PDF.

I can let you know then if you got your money's worth. :]

Landon

On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Daniel Ames <dan.ames at isu.edu> wrote:
> Tyler,
> On the LaTeX side of things, I'm not a pro tex-er so we hired someone to
> format the Marchionni and Dunsford papers. Did they turn out OK with respect
> to formatting? Our $50 on Odesk.com saved us hours of trying to learn LaTeX.
> Is that too lazy? I'd be happy to sponsor some of the other papers as
> well...
> As for updating case studies, I'd argue to let them go as is if they
> previously went through peer review successfully (as these all have). It's
> often an unfortunate byproduct of our academic peer review system that
> papers get published a year or two after the work was done. Though if we are
> clever we can try to reduce that lag time for the OSGeo Journal.
>  - Dan
>
> On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) <tmitchell at osgeo.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> On December 3, 2010 10:34:12 am Micha Silver wrote:
>> > I apologize for drifting away from my Journal "chores"
>> > recently. I hope to have a bit more time soon (after mid Dec),
>> > and I'll try to take up some of the latex conversions.
>>
>> We all seem pretty busy, that's good, hope it's putting food on the table
>> for
>> everyone! :)
>>
>> > I was concerned about two articles in the Case Studies that
>> > are about 3 year old. I'm reluctant to approach the authors
>> > now, after such a long delay, and ask that they update the
>> > article. But on the other hand publishing as is will mean
>> > presenting material that is quite out of data.
>>
>> Which articles are you thinking of?  I see the following:
>>
>> FOSS4G Proceedings / Peer Review:
>>  - Gadea et al
>>  - Baranski
>>  - Bartie et al
>>  - Dunsford
>>  - Marchionni et al
>>  - Erickson et al
>>
>> Developer announcements:
>>  - Hansmann
>>
>> Case Studies:
>>  - Wilkins - I got him to update and resubmit already.
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