CONTENTS OF AISB LATEX ZIP FILE Updated: 13 Dec 2009 Instructions for use of these files are below the list of files. FILES: AREADME.txt This file AISB2010-template.tex latex source file which can be copied and edited to produce your file for submission. It is also used to produce the guidelines PDF file, below. aisbf01.jpg aisbf01.ps Two image files for use in the template latex file, producing the same image. The .ps file is used by the 'latex' command. The .jpg file is used by the 'pdflatex' command. The appropriate image file is invoked by this command in the latex source file: \centerline{\includegraphics[height=3.5in]{aisbf01}} aisb.bib Samble bibtex input file used to produce citations and the bibliography at the end of the latex output file (whether of type .pdf, .dvi or .ps) This is invoked by bibliography command at the end of the latex input file: \bibliography{aisb} Look at aisb.bib to see how to format your bibliography entries if you are not familiar with bibtex. AISB2010.cls This latex class file is invoked in your latex input file by the line at the top of the file: \documentclass{AISB2010} AISB.bst This is the bibliography style file used by the 'bibtex' command to determine the format for the bibliography entries and citations. After the 'latex' or 'pdflatex' command is run, the behaviour of the 'bibtex' command depends on this instruction on line 18 in the latex input file, which assumes the '.bst' suffix: \bibliographystyle{AISB} AISB2010-FormattingGuidelines.pdf This is both a file giving instructions for use of the AISB latex style files and also a sample of the result of following the instructions. If you successfully run the commands shown below you will produce a pdf file whose contents are the same as this file. ======================================================================= INSTRUCTIONS After extracting the contents of the .zip file change to the directory produced whose contents are listed above. Test that you have a recent version of latex available that can be used to generate your own pdf file for submission, by running the following commands to prepare PDF output from the template latex file: pdflatex AISB2010-template reads the input file (assumed by adding '.tex' to the given file name, and prepares an auxilliary file used by subsequent commands bibtex AISB2010-template reads the input file and the .bst style file and prepares auxilliary files used by subsequent commands to create citations and the bibliography Run the next command THREE times: pdflatex AISB2010-template Each time it reads the .tex input file and previously prepared auxilliary files (some of which it also modifies). This process is required to get all the bibliography information into the output, and also to format the citations, and to make internal cross references correct. The above commands will eventually produce the required output file in PDF format: AISB2010-template.pdf plus several additional files, including .bbl, .blg, .aux, and .log files. The file AISB2010-FormattingGuidelines.pdf is a re-named version of a file produced by going through the above steps. I.e. it shows what the result of running those commands on the template file should be. If you copy and rename the .tex input file and the .bib bibliography file you should edit the new .tex file and .bib file to produce your paper or poster abstract submission. If you use any figures or diagrams you can use the 'includegraphics' command mentioned above to include the files. The pdflatex command can use graphical input files in various formats including .pdf, .jpg, .png and others. It will add the suffix depending on what it finds, so your 'includegraphics' command should not include the file suffix. The 'latex' command requires '.ps' or '.eps' graphical files, as illustrated below. Only the pdf file should be sent in when you submit your file for review. For the final submission you may or may not be asked to submit all your source files, depending on how the symposium or conference proceedings are to be produced. =================================================================== USING 'latex' INSTEAD OF 'pdflatex' If you don't have 'pdflatex', you can use 'latex' instead, e.g. latex AISB2010-template wherever the above instructions mentioned the 'pdflatex' command. That will produce a file AISB2010-template.dvi In order to obtain a postscript file from that run the command: dvips AISB2010-template It will produce a postscript file AISB2010-template.ps That file can be converted to pdf in various ways, e.g., on linux: ps2pdf AISB2010-template.ps will produce this pdf file: AISB2010-template.pdf However, it is much simpler to use pdflatex if you have it. ========================== HISTORY OF THESE FILES The AISB20 files were copied on 12th Decemember from: http://www.aisb.org.uk/convention/aisb10/styleFiles/AISB2010-latex.zip then edited as follows: 1. Removed empty '__MACOSX' sub-directory 2. Used the command convert aisbf01.ps aisbf01.jpg to produce a jpg version of graphical file, so that pdflatex command can be used to produce pdf. 3. Edited the file AISB2010-template.tex In order to allow pdflatex to work, altered one line (207) from \centerline{\includegraphics[height=3.5in]{aisbf01.ps}} to \centerline{\includegraphics[height=3.5in]{aisbf01}} 4. Edited AISB2010.cls line 40 to provide proper class name. 5. Recreated this file AISB2010-FormattingGuidelines.pdf as the one provided did not include the figure or citations, or bibliography. Aaron Sloman 13 Dec 2009 http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs