[Journal] Volume 6: Checking In With Everyone Before LaTex Conversion

[Micha Silver]

Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas wrote:
> On 14 February 2010 22:04, Micha Silver <micha at arava.co.il> wrote:
>   
>> Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> On 12 February 2010 21:47, Micha Silver <micha at arava.co.il> wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Sunburned Surveyor wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> I wanted to check on the status of our articles for Volume 6 before I
>>>>> have volunteers start LaTex conversion. Please help me answer the
>>>>> following three (3) questions if you can:
>>>>>
>>>>> - I can only find the SEXTANTE article in PDF format. It looks like
>>>>> someone has already converted this article to PDF using LaTex. Can I
>>>>> get the raw LaTex source code? I think we will need that to layout the
>>>>> journal.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> I'm pretty sure that's how Victor Olaya sent it in. Shall I ask him for a
>>>> text version? (This was about a year ago...)
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> - It looks like the SAMT article is ready to convert to LaTex, but I'm
>>>>> not sure. Did someone review this article before it was moved to the
>>>>> editing section? I just want to double check.
>>>>>
>>>>> - It looks like the GVSIG article is ready to convert to LaTex, but
>>>>> I'm not sure. Did someone review this article before it was moved to
>>>>> the editing section? I just want to double check.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> Yes, ready to Latex.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm willing to collaborate with the gvSIG article conversion to LaTeX,
>>> so if anyone can help me to grab the document I can start converting
>>> ASAP.
>>>
>>> I suppose the document is at OJS as I can't find it on SVN.
>>>
>>> I'm afraid I've been too much disconnected of this list for a long
>>> time,sorry.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> Hi Jorge:
>> Just this moment I sent to Landon a message that I've got the gvSIG article
>> in Latex already, and I can upload it to svn once the Journal 6 svn
>> directory is ready.
>> In cases of coincidence like these we say that you've earned a long life...
>>
>>     
>
> Oh my, this is why I should not delay my lists review to Sunday evening...
>
>   
>> Anyway there will be lots of latexing (and cleaning up after) to do.
>>     
>
> Where I can see the articles that need conversion? The wiki page seems
> outdated, I've just added the category and I can't see the gvSIG
> article.
>
> Cheers
>   
For past issues we had a directory in the svn repository [1] for each 
section, then within the sections a directory for each article named by 
the author's name. Within that dir we had both the original article (in 
whatever format it was submitted) and the latex version. Each latex file 
was *not* a document in itself, but rather the main *.tex article had 
many \begin{article} lines like:

 	\begin{article}
 		\input{annual_report/executive/editorial.tex}
 	\end{article}

This way, all editors and latexers could do an svn checkout and get all the originals and *.tex files.
	
Regards,
Micha


[1] http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/journal/volume_5/en-us/

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