[Journal] Volume 8 - moving along...

[Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)]

Editors and Landon - we should also get the original authors to have a peek at 
their articles - if you can dig up their contact emails and point them to the 
current draft PDF, it would be helpful.  Mention that we are working on image 
sizes and layout still - but want to make sure they are happy to still have 
their article in there :) (since some were waiting a long time) hehe.

I'm not so worried about the foss4g articles though I guess, since they went 
through review already.

On January 13, 2011 07:41:30 am Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote:
> Thanks Landon!   And Eli, I'm going through it with a fine toothed layout
> comb last night and today.  I'll probably hit on many of what you notice,
> but send my way anyway.
> 
> Tyler
> 
> On 2011-01-13, at 7:21 AM, Sunburned Surveyor wrote:
> > Eli,
> > 
> > You can send me the grammar stuff (sentences that don't make sense)
> > and I can take a look. Better leave the layout stuff for one of our
> > LaTex hands. :]
> > 
> > Landon
> > 
> > On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 6:50 PM, Eli Adam <EAdam at co.lincoln.or.us> wrote:
> >> All,
> >> 
> >>     I've done some copyediting to fix typos, spelling errors, grammar,
> >>     etc.  I made those changes in the .tex files.  I would like to
> >>     convert it to pdf to see if everything went the way I wanted and to
> >>     verify that I didn't have any unintended impacts.  I can convert it
> >>     but get a lot or warnings and some errors, although I do usually
> >>     eventually make it to a PDF.  I'll leave the conversion to someone
> >>     else for now.  Could someone convert and update the pdf in svn?
> >>    
> >>    I have some other suggestions for revision that I'm not comfortable
> >>    making (like I'm not sure what the meaning of the sentence is thus
> >>    don't know how to fix it) and some suggestions that I'm not skilled
> >>    enough to make (like Figure layout, standardizing the article format
> >>    - where author names go, etc).  Unless someone volunteers to be the
> >>    recipient of those suggestions, I'll send them to Tyler.  Any
> >>    takers?
> >> 
> >> Thanks, Eli
> >> 
> >>>>> "Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)" <tmitchell at osgeo.org> 12/30/2010 11:58 AM
> >>>>> >>>
> >> 
> >> On December 30, 2010 09:30:27 am Eli Adam wrote:
> >>> Tyler,
> >>> 
> >>>      Thanks.  I started reviewing and have found some small revisions. 
> >>>      It
> >>> 
> >>> may be easier to make small easy corrections with SVN.  Some tutorial
> >>> links on latex and svn would help me on that.  And preferably some
> >>> directions that are OSGEO specific.
> >> 
> >> Great!  For SVN, here's a good tutorial:
> >> http://www.clear.rice.edu/comp314/svn.html
> >> 
> >> You'll "check out" the journal source code from:
> >> http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/journal/volume_8/en-us - you can always grab
> >> a higher level folder too, if you want to have other files for
> >> background - eg. http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/journal - will give you all
> >> our past volume source code too.
> >> 
> >> For editing the source files, you edit the .tex files, save them and
> >> commit them back when you are happy with the result.  They are simple
> >> text files.
> >> 
> >> Committing will require you to have an OSGeo UserID and for one of us
> >> other committers to add you to the group.  Holler if you don't have an
> >> id.
> >> 
> >> How you run/process/compile a PDF file will will depend on the operating
> >> system you are using.  I'm most familiar with Linux (apt-get install
> >> texlive I think) and Mac (MacTex comes with a helpful editor called
> >> TexShop) - yes, both platforms are huge :)
> >> 
> >> For some tutorials on basic latex usage, these look good.
> >> 
> >> http://www.andy-roberts.net/misc/latex/
> >> 
> >> One thing to keep in mind is that you will compile the main file
> >> OSGeoJournal_vol8.tex - not the other .tex files in the subfolders.  
> >> So, if you can't compile that main one, then you won't be able to do
> >> anything.
> >> 
> >> Also, if you hit a wall, don't worry, make some changes, send me the new
> >> file and I can test it out on my system too.  Either way, your review
> >> is appreciated.
> >> 
> >> Tyler
> >> 
> >>>      There are other larger or more complex changes that I will
> >>>      probably
> >>> 
> >>> not be able to make by myself (changing the cover and spine year or
> >>> paragraph alignment for instance).  What is the best method for those
> >>> changes?
> >> 
> >> Hmm, anything relating to layout is done after all the typos and edits
> >> are done.  In some cases we'll throw in a \newpage command to break
> >> content more naturally, or even insert some \vspace{2cm} .. etc. to add
> >> some more.
> >> 
> >> The cover is done up in GIMP I think, but finding a better way to do it
> >> is welcome.  The source files are in the graphics folder for each
> >> volume.
> >> 
> >> Hope that gets you started!  Let me know when you hit a wall!
> >> Tyler
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