September 2009
From: Dr Christopher Mabb,
Scientific Word Ltd.
We think our response might interest many of you, not quite sure about the best way of making submissions to various Journals:"Hello: A typeseted paper could be acepted by international journals, like IEEE or Elsevier? Or it is necessary to perform aditional modifications to achieve the Journal's requirements? Thank you."
"Thanks for your question. For some Journals, we provide shell documents with Scientific WorkPlace and all you have to do is to start the document from that shell document and start typing. We're attaching a screenshot of part of the dialogue box where, having chosen Articles on the left, you would then choose one of the Shell documents on the right hand side. Note the Elsevier and IEEE entries.
For others, you need to obtain the typesetting specifications for the journal concerned, and install them correctly according to the instructions we supply in the online Help - Search - typesetting specifications - typesetting specifications - typesetting specifications from outside sources."
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We replied:"I'd like to take you up on your kind offer if I may.
File attached - the problem is that the editor is asking for the footnotes to be double spaced. We have tried sticking a TciTex grey box in the front of one but don't know how to instruct it to doublespace. is that the right way to go?
We'd encourage you to download the sample.tex files, click on Typeset - PreviewPDF, and look at the footnotes on page 2 of the PDFs produced."Interesting problem - it took me a couple of goes to get it right. Here are two possible ways:Trust this helps - and that we'll soon be getting invited back to do another of our Training Courses at <snip>. Training Course Options are as on our Training page at www.sciword.co.uk/training.htm . All the best."
- The better way, since the doublespace package has been superseded by the setspace package, is to remove the doublespace package from your document and add setspace. Then select setspace, click on Modify, and choose doublespacing. At this stage you're no better off, except you're using setspace which gives more versatility. Now, for each footnote, add a TeX field saying \doublespacing. Now we're getting somewhere, but the space between two footnotes on the same page is still single spacing; to overcome this, add a line in the Typeset - Preamble saying \footnotesep1.3cm or whatever size you want. It also accepts in for inches.
- The easier way from where you're at is to remove the doublespace package, and simply add a line in the Typeset - Preamble saying \renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{2} . This is a pretty crude fix, which regards the whole piece of paper as a elastic band and stretches it top to bottom by the multiple you specify. For some reason I never remember, the multiplier 2 is bigger than you need to reproduce double spacing - you probably want something like 1.8. And you'll also need a line about the \footnotesep as above.
