[Journal] Moving Forward With LaTex Conversion and Publication of Volume 6

[Scott Mitchell]

Trying again from the correct address... my replies about the two  
events reports below:

On 11-May-2010, at 14:32 , newsletter-owner at lists.osgeo.org wrote:

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> From: Scott Mitchell <smitch at mac.com>
> Date: May 11, 2010 13:31:57 GMT-04:00
> To: Sunburned Surveyor <sunburned.surveyor at gmail.com>
> Cc: OSGeo Journal <newsletter at lists.osgeo.org>
> Subject: Re: [Journal] Moving Forward With LaTex Conversion and  
> Publication of Volume 6
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> The two articles under events/ have my attempts at conversion of two  
> "event reports" from their original Word formats.  Although I  
> managed putting the news section together without much trouble,  
> these conversions are my first real attempt at TeX projects beyond  
> absolutely basic formatting, & I'm stretching my understanding;  if  
> I can get help with fixing the formatting, hopefully I'll absorb  
> understanding of a working model and be able to do more myself on  
> future articles.
>
> Of the two, 165_Rusztecka_CASCADOSS is in better shape.  As far as I  
> can see, it's very close, I just haven't quite figured out how to  
> "frame" tables/figures just right, specifically the last 2 graphs.   
> I may also have a bracketing error?  But it's not bad.  I've cleaned  
> out the old .doc file that used to be in there to avoid confusion.
>
> The other article, in  OrshovenWawer_summercourse/, needs more  
> work.  It has LARGE tables, and I haven't done a very good job of  
> taming them.  As it stands, I've managed to make the tables  
> disappear altogether.  I'm willing to do more work on it if someone  
> can tell me (fairly specifically) what to do - my problem now is  
> that I'm flailing with it.  I will definitely NOT be offended if  
> someone can go in there and make fixes directly.  There's been a bit  
> of versioning confusion with it though - see the README.txt that  
> I've added to the repository, to make sure we're all looking at the  
> right file (Tyler, I've noted that you and I were editing a  
> different file at one point - sorry about that).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Scott
>
> On 11-May-2010, at 11:16 , Sunburned Surveyor wrote:
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>> Guys,
>>
>> What do we need to do to finish the LaTex conversion and publication
>> of Volume 6? Do we need to find Barry some assistance? Can we get  
>> this
>> done by the end of the week?
>>
>> I hate to see us let Volume 6 drag on any longer.  I realize this is
>> partly due to my lack of prodding and leadership, but I'd like to get
>> this volume of the journal wrapped an on line.
>>
>> How do we move forward?
>>
>> Thanks for suggestions.
>>
>> Landon
>>
>> P.S. - Has anyone thought about taking over as editor for Volume 7?
>> I'd be happy to share what I learned while working on Volume 6...
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