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ata13y30

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9 New SI publications design

13th Jan 2012

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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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[-]ata13y180

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?

[-]lukeprog13y50

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

[-]wedrifid13y100

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.

[-]lukeprog13y00

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

[-][anonymous]13y60

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

[-]David_Gerard13y40

That example template is gorgeous!

Anything except Computer Modern :-)

[-][anonymous]13y20

and have the skills to do.

This is the really hard part.

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[-]thomblake13y20

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

fine, done.

[-]worldmind2y10

I had an experience with LaTeX as a source format - it's good if output format is PDF only, but it's pain if you want more, because LaTeX is not really semantic markup, it's only sometimes looks like it. So, in a result I moved my book to DocBook format and it works much better - I can easily produce any output format. I still use custom script for convert DocBook to LaTeX (for PDF generation) because I want to reuse what was prepared initially, but if I will start something new I will try to use DocBook tools without any custom things.

[-]marchdown13y00

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.

[-]djcb13y00

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

[-]printing-spoon13y00

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

[-]kilobug13y00

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 ?

[-]lukeprog13y00

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

[-]Solvent13y00

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

[-]ata13y30

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

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