You're looking at Less Wrong's discussion board. This includes all posts, including those that haven't been promoted to the front page yet. For more information, see About Less Wrong.

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

 

Or, in general, please send an email to volunteers+subscribe@intelligence.org to be added to the volunteers email list.

Volunteer project requests go out only a few times a month, so we won't flood your inbox, and you never know: maybe a project sent to that list will be something you are in the mood to do and have the skills to do.

 

Comments (14)

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: 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: 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: 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.