From: jac@ds8.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr)
Newsgroups: sci.physics
Subject: Re: LaTeX submission to Phys. Rev. ?
Date: 29 Aug 92 19:34:37 GMT
Reply-To: jac@ds8.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr)
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In article <dedmunds.714873384@sfu.ca> dedmunds@selkirk.sfu.ca (Darran Edmundson) writes:
>Has anyone actually submitted a paper to Phys. Rev. electronically in
>the LaTeX format?

Yes.  I have done so several times, although it is not strictly correct 
to say that one uses "LaTeX format" since it is best to use the RevTeX 
macro system in the compuscript program since it is WYSIWYG (What you SEND 
is what you get ... in print) whereas anything else will still be run 
through the keyboarding process. 

Compuscript has the additional advantage of being free of page charges 
in the Phys. Rev. C during a 2-year test period that started in July.

>I would be very interested in talking to someone who has been through
>the process successfully.  Specifically, what style do you use and
>how do you handle references (BibTeX???) and figure captions?

They will take a TeX file for submission (figures by FAX or mailed as 
postscript files) but only files built entirely within the RevTeX system 
of macros (with no user-defined macros in the final file) will be used 
for the compuscript system.  The former eliminates the delay from use of 
the USPS, which might save a week.  The latter cuts about a month from 
total process time and simplifies proof-reading a *great* deal. 

They have just added PRL to the journals that take use compuscript 
processing; see recent editorial.  I have not used this yet, but it must 
be a big help for PRL papers with equations or detailed tables since 
one does not get to see proofs in PRL!  Fewer errata needed. 

You can read about the system in the usual submission info in the journal, 
and there is additional info in the APSNews (in an issue around March or 
May or so) that goes to every member.  You can get the system via E-mail; 
inquiries go to wbytex instead of tex, I think, @aps.org.  The system 
is pretty easy to use, and has the advantage that it enforces APS style 
rules in your tables and section heads.  The \tightenlines option for 
the preprint style makes it all single spaced so long papers do not 
waste a lot of paper on intermediate drafts.  The \cite uses keys like 
BibTeX, with numbers set by the order of the references in the list at 
the end of the paper.  They automatically hyphenate lists, so it is 
easy to catch renumbering errors because all citations are always in 
the \cite{} listing even if they do not appear in the output. 

Part of the RevTeX materials you get is a manual containing several 
examples of input and output for complete papers, both in preprint and 
galley form.  One really sweet thing is that you can run your paper out 
in galley form, and set up the file so the equations layout and break 
the way you want them to look -- and annotate the file with comments 
on same directed to the editor.  I am quite happy with how it works.

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J. A. Carr                                    |  "The New Frontier of which I  
jac@gw.scri.fsu.edu                           |  speak is not a set of promises
Florida State University  B-186               |  -- it is a set of challenges."
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