NOTES FOR MG9 PRODUCTION 2002 [to do list]
This file indicates the various files used in the production of the World Scientific Proceedings front/back matter
and author contributions, with LATEX or PLAIN TEX. These were written by an amateur tex
user (bob) for MG7 since the existing macros from the publisher at the time were either
inadequate or inexistent. [The publisher wasted an inch of page space at the bottom of
every page because of inadequate communication to the editors.] The macros were also used
for MG8 [with the extra inch utilized!]. They are also being used for MG9 as well... and will
be necessary for further meetings since the front/back matter requires special handling.
Note: all filenames are actually lowercase on the server.
CONTENTS
1) The proceedings style files for the general typesetting [now provided by World
Scientific Proceedings Macro Site; we use the 9.75" x 6.50" latex2e macro
file ws-p9-75x6-50.cls (see below) ]
2) The front matter:
a) title page up to table of contents
b) the table of contents
3) The back matter:
a) participant (with perhaps just city, country info) list
b) author index (with page numbers of articles)
Should anyone make improvements to any of these macros,
please inform me: robert.jantzen@villanova.edu.
thanks
bob
http://www.homepage.villanova.edu/robert.jantzen
FILE LISTING:
this file:
MGPROCS.htm
front matter before table of contents:
MG7FRONT.TEX 25 29-JUN-1995 [with procs.sty]
MG8FRONT.TEX 1998 [with mprocl.sty
latex2.09]
[this LATEX file generates the front matter up to the table of contents file]
MG9FRONT.TEX 2002 [with ws-p9-75x6-50.cls
latex2e->latex]
[this LATEX file generates the front matter up to the table of contents file; the filename
indicates the physical page dimensions in inches]
preliminary output file: mg9front.pdf
table of contents macro file and generator:
MG7TOC.TEX 16 2-JUL-1995
[this file contains the PLAIN TEX table of contents generator using as input files
containing the author, title, number of pages information from the contributed papers]
Now updated to LATEX2e -> LaTeX:
MG9TOC.TEX 21-JUL-2001
Plenary and Parallel Session separator pages for mg9:
mg9parallelpages.tex
example input files for author/title/page info:
mg9plenaryparallel.tex
old:
MG7PLENARY.TEX
MG7PAR1.TEX
MG7PAR2.TEX
MG7PAR3.TEX
Note that each paper contribution article must have a title, author(s), number of page entry in each session section; here is a parallel section title and entry from MG7par1.tex (the first) and MG9plenaryparallel.tex (the second) [the robot must supply this information from the interactive form each author fills out for each contribution, with a check on the actual number of tex pages used, or it must be extracted from the database):
\session{Exact Solutions}{V. Belinsky}
\@
Exact (3+1)-Dimensional Gravitational
Soliton Solutions of the Einstein Equation\\
Chi Au, Li-Zhi Fang, F.T. To\\
2
\@
Exact (3+1)-Dimensional Gravitational
Soliton Solutions of the Einstein Equation\\
Au, Chi; Fang, Li-Zhi; To, F.T.\\
2
The preliminary table of contents file: mg9toc.pdf
unordered author index file: (produced by mg7toc.tex):
MG7TOCAL.LIS 39 2-JUL-1995 -> mg9tocal.lis
[this Author List file is produced by the plain tex table of
contents macros, listing each author, and the start page number
of the corresponding article in the proceedings.
this file must then be edited by hand to put multiple authors
on separate lines with their page numbers, and then sorted
alphabetically putting the last name first by a simple unix
command, with some clean up polishing of the result]
some comments about editing .lis before sorting
MG7AL.DOC 2 20-JUN-1995 (may not be necessary...)
to produce
MG7TOCAL2.LIS -> (did not do this step for mg9)
sort
with unix program "sortit2" on renoir.vill.edu unix box
for mg7 (authors: Firstname Lastname):
one line unix program:
sed 's/^\(.*\) \([^ ]*, \)/\2 \1, /g' | sort -d
but "sortit" for mg9 (authors Lastname, Firstname):
sed 's/^\(.*\) \([^ ]*, \)/\2: \1 \2/g' | sort | sed 's/^.* ://g'
(ask Najib.Nadi@villanova.edu)
to produce:
MG7TOCAL3.TEX -> mg9tocal3.tex
(preliminary; final page numbers not correct)
then edit to collapse duplicate names and order same last
name entries and page numbers (3 hours work for MG7)
format with:
MG7AUTHORINDEX.TEX -> mg9authorindex.tex
[this is a PLAIN TEX file which formats the author index into
two column output for photoreproduction;
now uses the package multicol with the standard latex2e proceedings macros]
preliminary output file: mg9authorindex.pdf (page
numbers not correct yet)
to generate the participant (institution address) list:
macro file:
ADDLIST.TEX 11 2-JUL-1995
[this file does the typesetting]
updated to the WS latex macro style: mg9add.zip
12 pages double column [lastname, firstname country] 920 participants
list file:
MG7PARTADD.TEX 99 1-JUL-1995
[this is the input file containing the data]
general formatting macros:
OVERCITE.STY 15 13-NOV-1991 for world sci style footnotes
PROCS.STY 26 19-SEP-1994 the LATEX author macros
PROCSPLAIN.TEX 27 19-SEP-1994 the PLAIN TEX author macros
documentation:
MG7LA.TEX;30 17 25-OCT-1994 the author LATEX instructions
MG7PLAIN.TEX;32 16 the author PLAIN TEX instructions
incorporated into front matter?:
MG7AWARDS.TEX 15 26-MAR-1995
The latest WS Latex 9.75x6.5 in (physical page dimensions) format macros:
ws-p9-75x6-50.cls ws-p9-75x6-50.tex
readme.txt
World Scientific MG Proceedings Summary Pages
20-jun-2002: bob
jantzen