Fwd: FW: [Segtex] Testing segtex

[Sergey Fomel]

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From: Sergey Fomel <sergey.fomel at gmail.com>
Date: Mar 13, 2005 10:50 PM
Subject: Re: FW: [Segtex] Testing segtex
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>  > 1. Is it time to update SEG.bib for 2004? If Karen Wolf (or whoever is
>  > responsible) can dump the database in a text file, I will do the
> > conversion.
>  >
>  > 2. The bibtex produced from searches at the SEG website is incorrect (it
>  > outputs @inproceedings instead of @article, etc.), and I have heard
> > people complaining about it. What language is http://seg.org/cgi-bin/dci.cgi
>  > written in? How does it do the conversion? Can we fix it easily?

Does anybody know who is in charge of DCI at SEG? Can we forward these
questions to them?

>  Note that you can include in a bib-file lines like
>  @string {fb = "First Break"}
>  which then allows to use in the bib entry definitions like
>  JOURNAL=fb,
>  which is advantageous as it requires only the change of one line to have
>  a certain Journal name appear differently on citation.
>
>  I've put my "strings.bib" at
>  http://www.ime.unicamp/br/~js/strings.bib
>  Maybe, it can be of use.
>  (Note that presently, I've defined all these strings as MACROs in
>  seglike.bst too. I use strings.bib to use it with other bst files.)

Joerg,

Thank you. I am sorry for the slow response. Your strings.bib file is
now included with the package and inserted (by the conversion script)
in SEG.bib.

>  I've downloaded the latest version of geophysics.cls and started to test it
>  on a manuscript I'm presently writing. Here are the things I've found:
>
>  1. (minor) Section headings are not centered

Fixed.

>  2. in "paper" mode:
>     (a) There is a strange Latex error when using the \abstract command
>         (\begin{minipage} ended by \end{document})

Please use abstract as an environment:
\begin{abstract}...\end{abstract}. Are there any good reasons to make
it a command rather than an environment?

>     (b) Wouldn't it be interesting to set this in two columns?

Yes! This was suggested by Jerry Schuster as well. I am experimenting
with an implementation. If anybody has a working example of something
similar with two columns, please let me know.

>  3. in "manuscript" mode:
>     (a) I had a Latex error because a figure was placed at the beginning
>         of a paragraph (seems to be caused by the \abstract command, when
>         working with \begin{abstract}, it didn't happen).

Please see above.

>     (b) Figure captions are ignored (is this a bug or a feature?)
>         Therefore, labels in Figure captions are invalid and ref won't work.
>         Of course, labels can be put outside the \caption command, but they
>         normally work inside, too.

This is a feature. The captions appear in the list of figures. In my
understanding, this is consistent with the Geophysics manuscript
requirements. There is a label \label{fig:figname} inserted silently
by default in every figure included with \plot or \sideplot. You can
refer to it with "Figure~\ref{fig:name}". Please see the example file
included in the package.

>     (c) Shouldn't Figures be swept to the end in this mode, even if their
>         placed within the text?
>         (This can be achieved by setting \renewcommand{\textfraction}{1},
>         which means that Latex requires each page to be 100% text).
>     (d) Shouldn't there be an automatic list of captions from the
>         \caption commands

Both these things should work if you use \plot, \sideplot, or
\multiplot. Please let me know if they don't or if there is a reason
not to use \plot.

>  > - Rename seglike.bst to seg.bst
>
>  Fine with me, if it is meant to replace the present one.

Done.

Thank you again.

Sergey