New SI publications design

6 Post author: lukeprog 13 January 2012 03:16AM

The Singularity Institute's publications are badly and inconsistently formatted.

Our research associate Daniel Dewey has made us a nice-looking LaTeX template for them (example), but we need some help moving them from the original files into LaTeX. If you have a little experience with LaTeX and might be willing to help, please let me know!

luke [at] intelligence.org

 

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Comments (14)

Comment author: ata 13 January 2012 07:33:03AM *  13 points [-]

Last year I formatted the TDT paper in LaTeX to teach myself LaTeX. (It's done, aside from a diagram that was missing from the original and possibly a citation or two that were underspecified.) Would this be useful to you, if I reformatted it for the new template?

Comment author: lukeprog 13 January 2012 11:12:24AM *  3 points [-]

Yes! You can even just send the tex file to me via email.

Comment author: wedrifid 13 January 2012 05:41:09AM 6 points [-]

I can fix them up for you if you want. It'll give me an excuse to read them over again while I do it.

Comment author: lukeprog 13 January 2012 08:34:22PM 0 points [-]

Great! Please email me at luke [at] singularity.org.

Comment author: zero_0nee 13 January 2012 08:30:25AM 3 points [-]

I suggest that you use this web app for the formatting. It is incomplete, but very intuitive to use and great for most purposes.

Comment author: David_Gerard 13 January 2012 08:02:46PM 2 points [-]

That example template is gorgeous!

Anything except Computer Modern :-)

Comment author: thomblake 13 January 2012 09:39:49PM 1 point [-]

please send an email to volunteers+subscribe@intelligence.org

fine, done.

Comment author: marchdown 15 January 2012 12:08:39PM *  0 points [-]

I'm familiar with LaTeX and willing to help. I'd love to discuss some of the papers in more detail, too.

Edit: email sent.

Comment author: djcb 14 January 2012 12:03:06PM 0 points [-]

It's actually a rather nice template; is it available somewhere?

Comment author: printing-spoon 13 January 2012 09:39:10PM 0 points [-]

The wormhole-wing-trumpet logo thing is a bit aliased.

Comment author: kilobug 13 January 2012 02:40:24PM 0 points [-]

I've some experience with LaTeX, not much free time, but still able to help every now and then.

What is the source (ie old) format ? docbook ? odt ? HTML ? Or just the PDF ?

Comment author: lukeprog 13 January 2012 08:34:43PM 0 points [-]

Please email me at luke [at] singularity.org. Thanks!

Comment author: Solvent 13 January 2012 07:15:06AM 0 points [-]

Did you literally mean send an email to volunteers+subscribe@intelligence.org or does that mean something else?

Comment author: ata 13 January 2012 07:32:37AM *  2 points [-]

It's a Google Group, sending any email to that address will indeed subscribe you to the list.