Inclusion of graphics, e.g., figures in abstracts, is becoming more popular. Our compiler supports 3 packages to make it easier to include graphics. They are eps, graphics, and wrapfig, which respectively allow the inclusion of encapsulated postscript (eps) files, postscript (ps) files, and to wrap text about a figure. You may view an example of an abstract including a figure by clicking here and going to abstract 6. Please note that all abstracts must end with at least one line of text (not graphics); otherwise they cannot be processed correctly by the algorithm that produces the spacing in the abstract book.
The information given below is adapted from the American Physics
Society web site. It contains the information needed to produce many,
if not most, of the special symbols used in spectroscopy; however, it
is by no means all inclusive. An excellent supplement for those
needing more details is the WWW Help with LaTeX Site
produced by the late Sheldon Green.
Lower-case Greek letters. Note omicron is simply lower-case "o".
\alpha \eta \nu \tau \beta \theta \xi \upsilon \gamma \iota o \phi \delta \kappa \pi \chi \epsilon \lambda \rho \psi \zeta \mu \sigma \omega
Upper-case Greek letters.
\Gamma \Lambda \Sigma \Psi \Delta \Xi \Upsilon \Omega \Theta \Pi \Phi
The following commands may be used only in paragraph or LR mode.
Note that the letters "i" and "j" require special treatment when they are given accents because it is often desirable to replace the dot with the accent. For this purpose, the commands \i and \j can be used to produce dotless letters.
For example,
Subscripts are indicated by an underscore: _{SCRIPT}, e.g., $J_{\nu}$.
The abbreviation for Angstroms is indicated by \AA.
Circular degrees can be specified with $^{\circ}$, e.g., $45^{\circ}$.
We have also defined three special commands for symbols often encountered in Symposium abstracts.
COMMAND USE LATEX FORMULATION \wn wavenumbers \newcommand{\wn}{\ensuremath{\mathrm{cm}^{-1}}} \nub{} vibrational level \newcommand{\nub}[1]{\ensuremath{\nu_{#1}}} \chem{} chemical formula \newcommand{\chem}[1]{}\ensuremath{mathrm{#1}}
Use as follows:
INSERT SPECTROSCOPIC NOTATION FOR 19800\wn 19800 wavenumbers (cm to the (-1)) \nub{1} and \nub{3} levels nu sub 1 and nu sub 3 levels \chem{CH-4} correct chemical formula for methane
Additional information is available from Green's Help with LaTeX. Complete charts of symbols and markup names available in LaTeX are given at the end of the LaTeX Command Summary, which can be retrieved via anonymous FTP from ftp.shsu.edu or from nic.funet.fi. The Command Summary must be processed with LaTeX and printed in order to be useful.
These references are also useful:
1. Leslie Lamport. LaTeX - A Document Preparation System - User's Guide and Reference Manual. 2nd edition Addison-Wesley, Reading, 1994. 2. Michel Goossens, Frank Mittelbach and Alexander Samarin. The LaTeX Companion. Addison-Wesley, Reading, 1994. 3. Sheldon Green's Hypertext Help with LaTeX, http://www.giss.nasa.gov/latex/ 4. Helmut Kopka and Patrick W. Daly, A Guide to LaTeX2e: Document Preparation for Beginners and Avanced Users, 2nd Edition Addison-Wesley, 1995. ISBN: 0-201-42777-X
For the most part, automatic abstract processing is very successful. However, here is a list of some of the problems that sometimes occur, but can be easily avoided.
1. Word processors cause the largest share of troubles. If you use Word, WordPerfect, or another word processor, please be sure to save the file as an ASCII file (plain text, DOS text, etc.) DO NOT send abstracts as attachments. 2. Some punctuation marks are special characters to LaTeX, and you must put a backslash (\) in front of them so the proper mark is placed in the text. You should specify them like so: \& \$ \{ \} \% \# \_ 3. Make sure you use only upper case in the title and author names, except for special cases, e.g., He, Al, McDONALD, the conjunction "and" before the the last author in a series, etc. Your abstract will be checked and automatically rejected for failure to observe this convention. 4. Be careful not to add extra "{" or "}". Keep them in pairs. 5. Please note that some lines in the template are not to be removed, edited, commented out, or otherwise trifled with. Please follow the associated instructions.
Thank you for your cooperation, and good luck!