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SEG-99, a LaTeX2e class
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SEP uses LaTeX to typeset its reports, books,
and theses. LaTeX gives us a way to use a simple text
source file from which we can derive both Postscript and HTML
versions of our documents. You can find our documents on SEP's public documents site.
Sergey Fomel has been getting all geophysicists to use and contribute to a
standard TeX class. Check out the RSF
SEGtex
website for the latest.
TeX is a typesetting language, created by Donald Knuth, a famous professor from Stanford. TeX typesets complex documents beautifully and is the system of choice for most people who put mathematical equations and figures in their texts.
You can download TeX-related software from a set of mirrors of the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN). One of the best-working mirrors in CTAN is Walnut Creek.
At SEP's Unix servers, we use the teTeX package , found in /systems/unix/teTeX/ directory on CTAN archives. For Windows machines, I recommend MikTeX package, found in /systems/win32/miktex/. Both these packages are from Germany. A good DVI viewer for Windows is DVIWIN, found in /dviware/dviwin/
Leslie Lamport developed a popular TeX macro package, LaTeX. LaTeX source files are processed into DVI (device independent) files. You can inspect the dvi files on a computer screen or process them into a Postscript file for printing. LaTeX2HTML converter is another very useful application of LaTeX.
LaTeX source files are processed with a plain text editor or word processor. The editor of choice is GNU Emacs, empowered by AUC TeX package. On Windows, there is a nice shareware program, WinEdt , found on CTAN in /systems/win32/winedt/.
Recommended books on LaTeX are
LaTeX2e allows users to add their own classes to the standard classes (article, letter, book, report, etc.), supplied in the base LaTeX2e distribution. SEP2e is a LaTeX2e class, used at SEP for writing reports, books, and theses. A brief documentation is available as a compressed postscript and HTML.
February 2007, Brad Artman added an example Adm directory for your Thesis directory. All chapter directories live in the Thesis directory. All the files you need in Thesis/Adm are included here: Thesis/Adm. Check out the thesis faq too. One- and two-sided printing now supported (and accepted by the University).
To help new users start writing SEP report papers, we provide an example paper in compressed postscript and HTML.
A recent addition to SEP's LaTeX system is SEG-99, a class for writing SEG expanded abstracts. This class is designed as an extension to SEP2e. It follows the 1999 guidelines and sample file, distributed by the Society of Exploration Geophysicists. For outside users, we provide an export version of the SEG-99 class with instructions on its usage.
For a convenient LaTeX processing, we use a set of site make rules and Perl scripts. The scripts will be available soon on this server.
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