Submission woes

You are writing a LaTeX document. You are very happy with the typesetting that you are producing. The day comes to submit the document and you have to comply with various bizarre submission requirements. What are you to do? Read on. It's a good idea to introduce one of these elements at a time, and see that they work.

Double spacing

This is done using `setspace'. Either say:

\usepackage[doublespacing]{setspace}
or say 
\usepackage{setspace}
and then say \doublespacing from the place where you want it.

End notes

Submissions are often required to use end notes. Here's how you do it. Put this in the preamble:

\usepackage{endnotes}
\let\footnote=\endnote

And at the end, wherever you want the endnotes to appear, you say:

  % Put in the endnotes
  \begingroup
  \setlength\parindent{0pt}
  \setlength\parskip{2ex}
  \renewcommand\enotesize{\normalsize}
  \theendnotes
  \endgroup

Roman numbered tables

Do this in the preamble:

  \renewcommand{\thetable}{\Roman{table}}

Floats to the end

To collect up all floats at the end, do this in the preamble:

\usepackage[notablist]{endfloat}

This creates a list of figures but not a list of tables. It does not mix with float.sty so you'll have to take that off.

Weird formats for showing citations in the bibliography

There is a great package named makebst which asks you millions of questions and writes a file.bst that is customised to the answers that you supplied.

M S Word format

Horrors! You are thrilled that you got accepted, but they want it in M S Word format!! I know of some escape routes, all imperfect.

  1. On pdfplanet.com you will find some programs that convert a .pdf file into a .rtf file. This is limited by the semantics of RTF, so you will lose many things. But in some situations, this might be convenient.
  2. There is a program named latex2rtf. Once latex has worked, you'd say latex2rtf file.tex and this would make file.rtf. This can be read into openoffice and saved as M S Word.
  3. Another channel is to say latex2html -split 0 file.tex which gives file/file.html which is an HTML file. Here's how you'd use openoffice to convert this into a M S Word file: (a) Fire up openoffice, (b) Say you want a new text document, (c) Insert file and put your HTML file in, (d) Save as M S Word.

Back up to TeX by example

Ajay Shah, 2002