JFLP: Electronic Publishing

The Journal of Functional and Logic Programming

Electronically Published Journals and LaTeX

All articles have to be submitted in LaTeX source form. Likewise, the articles are published on an article to article basis in LaTeX source form (and for additional convenience also in DVI and PostScript format). The restriction to LaTeX format is justified by the additional flexibility gained. The most basic example of this flexibility is that it allows readers in Europe to use their wide paper format when printing an article while simultaneously allowing the readers in the USA to use a smaller paper format. More ambitious is the possibility to provide an audio version of articles. For more information with regard to audio browsing of LaTeX documents, see AsTeR . The LaTeX format, furthermore, supports converting the articles to new formats which may be demanded by technology in the future. The permanent availability of the articles is certainly in the interest of every author and reader. Find out more about custom formatting .

Further Reading

An inspiring proposal on how electronic journals should be structured is available here . It is written by Michael J. O'Donnell , the managing editor of the Chicago Journal of Theoretical Computer Science (CJTCS) , which is also published electronically by The MIT Press .

Format of Articles Published in the JFLP

Publishing articles in the standard LaTeX article.sty is unsatisfactory due to three main reasons.

• Automatic numbering of sectional units, figures, and so on is convenient while improving and thus repeatedly changing a LaTeX document. But, when published, a document must be stable to allow easy referencing, formatting it anew must not change the reference points.
• To increase the suitability of the articles for automatic processing, a documents structure should be most clearly marked. This is not optimal in the standard formats.
• To ensure portability of the articles, some features of LaTeX must be avoided.

While articles are submitted by the authors in the standard article format, they are converted into a special format by the copy editors. JFLP adopts this special publication format from the Chicago Journal of Theoretical Computer Science (CJTCS) . This format is called CJstruct (current version is 1.1, released at 4 April, 1995) and is available for free use.

Important: Readers who wish to format an article, i.e., compile it with LaTeX, have to download and install CJstruct . (If you merely want to view or print a preformatted article, there is no need to do this.)

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This page is maintained by Manuel M. T. Chakravarty for the Executive Board of JFLP. Suggestions for improvement are always welcome.