MISC. USEFUL LaTeX CLASS FILES AND PACKAGES ======================================================================== Written by William B. Thompson ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Class files: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ nsfprop A simple class file for typesetting NSF proposals. Default fonts and margins are for GPG09-1 (effective January, 2009): 11pt Computer Modern fonts and 1.0" margins. Line spacing is ~5.25 lines / inch, well under the NSF limit of 6 lines / inch for GPG09-1. See below for the crowdlines and crowdlinesmax class options, which can cram more text onto the page without going over the NSF-imposed limits Class options: GPG07140 Use 2.5cm margins, as specified by GPG07-140 (effective June, 2007). paragraphspacing Switch from the default of indenting the start of each new paragraph to an alternate format in which a blank line is placed between paragraphs and there is no indenting at the start of each paragraph. The default style allows more text to fit within the 15 page NSF limit. timesfont This option switches from 11pt Computer Modern to 11pt Times Roman. Times Roman is a denser font than ComputerModern in both the characters themselves and the character spacing. More text will fit within the 15 page limit with Times Roman than with ComputerModern. Line spacing is as for Computer Modern. You should probably not use this option if the document uses mathematics (see immediately below). mathtimesfont As with the timesfont option, except that mathematics is also set in the times font. See documentation on the mathptmx package for information on when this might not work. palatinofont Typeset regular text and mathematics using 11 point Palantino. See documentation on the mathpazo package for more information. The Palantino font lays out similar to ComputerModern but with substantially heavier glyphs. palatinofont10 Typeset regular text and mathematics using 10 point Palantino. See documentation on the mathpazo package for more information. This produces substantially denser text (more text fitting into the 15 page limit) than does the other options, but is allowed by GPG 09-1 sfsectionfont Switch to sans-serif font for section headings. crowdlines Reduce the spacing between lines to get more text into a fixed number of pages. This will make the document harder to read. crowdlinesmax Reduce the spacing between lines by the maximum allowed by NSF. This will make the document VERY hard to read. (Readability is reduced to the MS Word level of typography!) Three standard LaTeX packages are loaded: cite % Sort numeric references in citations version % Mostly for the comment environment xspace % Used in macro definitions (but not in this class file!) Unlike previous versions of this class, no graphics bundle is loaded automatically. The figure placement rules used by LaTeX are turned off to give more control to the user. One new environments is defined: \begin{localscope} : \end{localscope} The localscope environment produces no formatting changes on its own, but makes it easy to confine the scope of user-specified formatting commands to a specific range. One new command is defined: \boxtext{text} Typeset the argument in a box prominently displayed on the page. Useful for notes that need to be addressed before the document is finalized. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Packages: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ acmtranscite Supports ACM transactions style citations in a document that does not use the ACM transactions class file (acmtrans2m.cls). BibTeX must be provided acmtrans.bst (as is the case with acmtrans2m.cls). Use with \bibliographystyle{acmtrans} (also as is the case with acmtrans2m.cls). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ boxtext Defines the \boxtext{text} command. Typeset the argument in a box prominently displayed on the page. Useful for notes that need to be addressed before the document is finalized. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dontdistribute Mark each page with "DO NOT DISTRIBUTE" in the left and right margins ------------------------------------------------------------------------ draftdatetime Mark each page with "DRAFT" and the date and time on the left margin This should be invoked before the \begin{document} ------------------------------------------------------------------------ forcefigurelayout Turn off efforts by LaTeX to layout figures sensibly. Figure placement will more sensitive to where the figure declaration occurs in the source. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ localscope Definds the localscope environment \begin{localscope} : \end{localscope} The localscope environment produces no formatting changes on its own, but makes it easy to confine the scope of user-specified formatting commands to a specific range. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ socletterhead Add the University of Utah School letterhead to the top of the page. No other formatting is specified by this package (and the default LaTeX letter package page layout is awful). Requires that socletterhead.eps and socletterhead.pdf must be somewhere in the TeX search path. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ specialbibsection Redefine "thebibliography" to remove the "References". Document should use explicit \section command instead. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Shell scripts (csh): ------------------------------------------------------------------------ runlatex Run latex at least once. If there are undefined citations, run bibtex and then additional latex runs. Keep going until most undefined references and label changes are gone. Produces a postscript output file by default, with the ".tex" in the input file replaced by a ".ps". Optionally, can instead produce a PDF output file. See the shell script itself for options. runpdflatex Same as runlatex, except that it executes pdflatex directly. latexmk is a Perl script that provides the most of the same functionality as runlatex, and more. texclean Clean up most (but not necessarily all) of the intermediate files produced by LaTeX. This may need to be run before runlatex to force a re-run of bibtex in some circumstances. ======================================================================== From The Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN) . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ apacite [subdirectory] Supports APA-style citations and bibliography references. See apacite.pdf for more information. APA-style is sometimes useful for non-APA manuscripts. *** Now included as part of most TeX distributions, and so is no longer included here. *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ apacls [subdirectory] Supports APA-style manuscript formatting. Uses the apacite package for citations and bibliography references. *** apa.cls is now included as part of most TeX distributions, and so is no longer included here. *** ========================================================================