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PracTeX Journal Editorial information
- Notes on preparing articles
- Production editing
- Add or Update an article on the journal test site
- How the journal test site works
- Making a Whole-issue PDF
- Current issue
- The journal test site
- Contact the editors
Current issue
- Release date: July 1, 2008
- Paper submission deadline: June 15, 2008
- Number 2008-2
- Theme: Class and Style
- Editor: Lance & ??
| Article / Piece | Author | Languages | Editor | Status | As of | A/P | B | L | SVN |
| Typesetting a genealogy journal | Michael Lundholm | US/UK | Proposed | 01:39, 12 May 2008 (MDT) | |||||
| Go game positions with Metapost | Wentao Zheng | US/UK | Received rough draft | 01:39, 12 May 2008 (MDT) | |||||
| Top 100 LaTeX Packages | Lance Carnes | US/UK | Proposed | 01:39, 12 May 2008 (MDT) | |||||
| Compleat Idiot's Guide to Class and Style | ??? | US/UK | Proposed | 01:39, 12 May 2008 (MDT) | |||||
| PStricks intro | Vafa Khalighi | US/UK | Proposed | 01:39, 12 May 2008 (MDT) | |||||
| LaTeX exams | Renan Yson | US/UK | Proposed | 01:39, 28 May 2008 (MDT) | |||||
| Regular features | |||||||||
| Article / Piece | Author | Editor | Status | As of | |||||
| Travels in TeXLand | Walden | Scheduled | 01:39, 12 May 2008 (MDT) | ||||||
| Opinion: LaTeX package versions: A moving target? | Carnes | Proposed | 01:39, 12 May 2008 (MDT) | ||||||
| Ask Nelly | Editors | Scheduled | 01:39, 12 May 2008 (MDT) | ||||||
| Feedback from readers | Scheduled | 01:39, 12 May 2008 (MDT) | |||||||
| Editorial | Lance & Editors | Scheduled | 01:39, 12 May 2008 (MDT) | ||||||
| Distractions | Editors | Scheduled | 01:39, 12 May 2008 (MDT) |
Production editors
| Editors | Languages |
| Lance Carnes | US/UK |
| Yuri Robbers | US/UK, Dutch |
| Paul Blaga | US/UK, Romanian, Italian |
| Will Robertson | US/UK |
| Francisco (Rei) Reinaldo | US/UK, PT/BR |
| Keith Jones | US/UK |
| Dr Partha | Indian Languages |
Reviewers/Proofreaders
| Tarcisio Praciano Pereira | PT/BR |
| Juan Luis Varona | Spanish |
| Michael Guravage | US/UK, Dutch |
| Thomas A. Schmitz | German |
| Maarten Sneep | Dutch |
| Helmer Aslaksen | Norwegian, Chinese |
| Jin-Hwan Cho | Korean |
Previous issue
- Released: June 10, 2007
- Number 2007-2
- Theme: TeX, LaTeX and ConTeXt for editors
- Editor: Paul Blaga
Still to do
| Article / Piece | Author | Editor | Status | As of |
| "hack" BiBTeX to produce a customised inventory list | Y. Calleecharan | Propopsal | 02:35, 15 June 2007 (GMT) | |
| Bilingual documents | Richard Holbert | Propopsal, see email of 8/15 | 13:41, 15 August 2007 (CDT) | |
| Conference proceedings package | Vincent Verfaille | Rei | Propopsal, see email of 8/12 | 13:41, 15 August 2007 (CDT) |
| Using LaTeX for Writing a Thesis | Rohit Vishal Kumar | Paul | Received, sent for review | 22:09, 13 May 2007 (EET) |
| Realizing the Benefits of LaTeX across Academic Writing Needs | Theodore Walls | Yuri | Partially completed | 14:09, 24 August 2006 (CDT) |
| A ConTeXt module for a journal | Aditya Mahajan | Proposed | 12:00, 12 March 2007 (EET) | |
| LaTeX tables | Andy Roberts | Paul | Proposed | 14:09, 24 August 2006 (CDT) |
| Enjoying babel | Enrico Gregorio | Rei | Corrections were sent on April.No feedback until now! | 00:13, 8 May 2007 (WEST) |
| Fancy Headers | Paul Blaga | Proposed | 21:24, 3 April 2007 (EET) | |
| Don't mess with the EDITOR: about the ``harmony of the relation author-editor | Paul Blaga | Proposed | 21:25, 3 April 2007 (EET) | |
| Using the AMS classes | George Gratzer | Yuri | Partially completed | 14:09, 24 August 2006 (CDT) |
| Removing vertical stretch - mimicking traditional typesetting with TeX | Kaveh Bazargan | Yuri | Delayed: 2007-1/2 | 13:51, 24 August 2006 (CDT) |
| Using KOMA-script (Part 2) | Robbers, Kohm, Roulund | Paul | Proposed | 14:09, 24 August 2006 (CDT) |
| TypeSpec v2: typesetting font specimens | William Adams | Proposed | 20:32, 6 September 2006 (CDT) | |
| TeX vs XML | J-M Hufflen | Lance | Received draft - needs editorial approval | 13:25, 31 October 2006 (CST) |
| Booklets with LaTeX | Gustavo Cevolani | Paul | Paper in Italian as well as English | 13:50, 29 December 2006 (MET) |
| A wayward wayfarer's way to TeX | Stephen Moye | Bill | Proposed | 00:07, 16 September 2006 (CDT) |
| Mastering texmf-trees | Thomas A. Schmitz | Bill | Draft received | 13:32, 6 December 2006 (CST) |
| Sketch, a processor to make 3D line drawings in LaTeX | Gene Ressler | Proposed | 15:04, 9 December 2006 (MET) | |
| The "hacking for learning" paradigm in LaTeX part 2 | S. Parthasarathy | Will | Received draft - needs editorial approval | 1:35, 21 December 2006 (CST) |
Article ideas
Feel free to add to this section, and put ~~~~ (your username For example, write "A Great Article, A.U. Thor ~~~~".
(Note: these ideas have been suggested by the authors or by the editor and are not necessarily commitments to write the articles.)
- When grace meets beauty -- LaTeX meets mathematics --- S. Parthasarathy (drpartha@gmail.com) 2007-01-07
- Brevity is the soul of wit -- How LaTeX can help --- S. Parthasarathy (drpartha@gmail.com) 2007-01-07
- LaTeX bibliographies, demystified -- S. Parthasarathy (drpartha@gmail.com) 2007-01-19
- LaTeXoGraPhy (who says LaTeX is only for serious stuff ?) -- S. Parthasarathy (drpartha@gmail.com) 2007-02-12
- AcroTeX, Don Story Lcarnes 16:59, 18 March 2006 (MST)
- TeX/LaTeX Online Survey (update), Don Story Lcarnes 16:59, 18 March 2006 (MST)
- LaTeX in Liberal Arts, John Burt Lcarnes 16:59, 18 March 2006 (MST)
- Setting up a journal with LaTeX, Jocelyn Doucet Lcarnes 16:59, 18 March 2006 (MST)
- Using Lyx, Jan Hlavacek Lcarnes 16:59, 18 March 2006 (MST)
- BibTeX, D T Young Lcarnes 16:59, 18 March 2006 (MST)
- Harvey Mudd College thesis style, Claire Connelly Lcarnes 16:59, 18 March 2006 (MST)
- URW fonts, Will Robertson Lcarnes 16:59, 18 March 2006 (MST)
- In my opinion, Phil Taylor Lcarnes 16:59, 18 March 2006 (MST)
- A Sketch system for 3d drawings, Eugene K. Ressler Lcarnes 16:59, 18 March 2006 (MST)
- Frequently asked questions, Gerree Pecht Lcarnes 17:06, 18 March 2006 (MST)
- LaTeX examples (what you type/what you get), Gerree Pecht Lcarnes 17:06, 18 March 2006 (MST)
- An introduction to replacement classes such as KOMA-Script. Rasmus P. --Rasmus 06:49, 30 March 2006 (MST)
- A light history of Lucida, Charles Bigelow Lcarnes 12:46, 8 May 2006 (PDT)
- Effective slide presentations with TeX (sugg. by David Walden) 10:32, 12 May 2006 (PDT)
- How to read log files (sugg. by Peter Flom) 10:32, 12 May 2006 (PDT)
- Font selection for dummies (sugg. by Peter Flom) 14:14, 9 August 2006 (CDT)
- Have 2 or 3 experts redo a sample document and explain what they did and why (sugg. by Will Robertson) 14:27, 9 August 2006 (CDT)
- Macros by example Peter Flom 15:45 (EDT) 9 August 2006
- Compare various programmeable graphics extensions (MetaPost, PSTricks, (e)(e)pic, TikZ, EpiX, etc.) by creating the same graphic in all of them, Yuri Robbers Yuri 06:06, 27 August 2006 (CDT)
- Using TeX in commercial printing (outlining fonts and other problems with sending a TeX-based document for commercial printing) Lcarnes 18:34, 13 June 2007 (CDT)
Column ideas
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