The Standard ETAI Style File

Motivation

The ETAI standard Latex style serves two purposes:

• To have a graphical presentation that can be directly included into the ETAI journal and obtaining perfect uniformity;

• To provide a uniform look-and-feel for ETAI affiliated First Publication Archives (FPA's).

The FPA's are entities ("University Electronic Presses") that publish and post articles as a prerequisite for being reviewed in the ETAI. They publish one article at a time, but differ from the publication of technical reports in that they make an explicit commitment to keeping articles on-line for an extended period of time, and to guarantee that they do not change during that time.

In order to achieve these two goals at the same time, the style file produces an article that consists of two logically distinct parts. The introductory part consists of the front page and pages containing the abstract, copyright information, and the like. The main part consists of the body of the article. These parts are designed so that their combination is a correct, free-standing publication, and the main part is suitable for inclusion in the ETAI.

It follows that different First Publication Archives are required to maintain equal appearance in the main part, but are free to design the introductory part for their local conditions.

Authors are welcome to use and adapt the style file to their local needs by modifying the introductory part, as long as the main part is not affected.

In designing the style file, an additional consideration has been that the resulting pages shall be graphically attractive both in the ETAI paper size and when printed on A4 and on letter size paper. This has resulted in a fairly tall and "stretched" page layout, which gave the style its name etendu.

Using the style file

When using the etendu style for an article, it is convenient to use the following files:

• The etendu style file, available at http://www.ida.liu.se/ext/etai/styles/latex/etendu.sty.

• A file abstract.tex containing the abstract.

• A file body.tex containing the text of the body of the article, including the references.

• A "main program" file that sets author, title, and so forth and "invokes" the abstract and body files. An example of such a "main file" is found at http://www.ida.liu.se/ext/etai/styles/latex/sample.txt.

The sample "main program" file is largely self-explanatory, but additional explanation may be found from the special explanations page.

Formatting a revised version of the article

After the open review period in ETAI, the author has the option of submitting a revised version of the article. The revised version keeps the same publication number in the Electronic Press as the original article, but is marked with a label for "Revised version" and an additional publication date. A modified style file,
http://www.ida.liu.se/ext/etai/styles/latex/revised.sty
is used for this purpose. It is similar to the one used for the original, and only requires the author to add a command for the date of issue of the revised edition, as in the following example:

    \trdaterev{October 1, 1999}