[Journal] standards

[Martin Wegmann]

On Wednesday 04 April 2007 18:06, Markus Neteler wrote:
> On 4/3/07, Martin Wegmann <wegmann at biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > just a few ideas which words/reference etc. we ought to standardise:
> >
> > article beginning:
> > title
> > by authorXX (no titles, just name (first and surname)
>
> Sounds good.
>
> > Address at the end:
> > Name
> > Organization
> > email (no @ e.g.: wegmann_AT_biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de)
> > URL
> > About (short description of author?)
>
> All good.
>
> > URL:
> > all with \url{http://www.XXX.org}
> > -> so that readers can directly open the link
>
> Perfect.
>
> > Bibliogrpahie:
> > when \cite{} and \thebibliography is used in the article shall we use the
> > default? e.g.
> > \cite{authorXX} appears as: [1]
> > \cite{authorYY} appears as: [2]
>
> This I personally don't like too much. The natbib style does it
> nicely (we want it human readable, not machine readable :)
> I can help if needed.

that would be great!

>
> > Commands:
> > \begin{footnotesize}
> > \begin{verbatim}
> > commands
> > commands
> > \end{verbatim}
> > \begin{footnotesize}
>
> For commands I made a macro in our GRASS book:
> \usepackage{letterspace}   %  to adjust letter spacings in \grass{}
> environment %normal tt font size, but shrinks the letter space slightly (by
> 5 percent): %note: not allowed in captions, use \texttt{} there
> \def\grass#1{\noindent{\grassfont\letterspace to .95\naturalwidth{#1}}}
>
> This avoids that courier fonts commands consume too much space.
> Usage: Now we start \grass{nviz}.
>
> Of course \grass{} should be renamed to something sensitive.
> For blocks of commands, I modified the verbatim to:
>
>
> \usepackage{fancyvrb}      % get a nice programmable Verbatim environment
>
> %note: we use \begin{Verbatim}\end{Verbatim} to customize the font:
> \RecustomVerbatimEnvironment{Verbatim}{Verbatim}{fontfamily=courier,fontsiz
>e=\small}
>
> Usage:
> Bla bla example for SQL pattern matching bla:
> \begin{Verbatim}
> # match exactly number of characters (here: 2)
> # (does not work for DBF driver):
> v.db.select geology where="GEO_NAME LIKE 'Za__'"
>
> # define wildcard (any length):
> v.db.select geology where="GEO_NAME LIKE 'Z%'"
> \end{Verbatim}

can you do it for one article or only one command section? Then it will be 
easier for me to duplicate if for all other command sections.

thanks, Martin

> Cheers
> markus
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