% README.INV -- APS electronic abstract package distribution. Thanks for your interest in preparing and submitting your invited APS meeting abstracts electronically. This directory contains all the files in the distribution. They are described briefly immediately below. Following the file descriptions are short installation instructions, the generic recipe for printing the user guide and samples, and information about who to contact regarding the distribution. The abstract files are prepared using the syntax of a text processing system called LaTeX, and each individual item is identified by its own command (or piece of markup) in the LaTeX language. These items are described in detail in the apsinvins.txt file. You will need a Meeting ID code to complete the template. For the 1996 Joint April Meeting of the APS and AAPT, the Meeting ID is "Apr96". For the 1996 March Meeting, the Meeting ID is "Mar96". For the 1996 DHP Meeting the Meeting ID is "DHP96". README.INV This file apsinvin.txt Instructions for using this package and for submitting abstracts. We recommend printing this file to make it easier to follow the directions exactly. This is a plain ASCII text file - it needs no text processing. apsinfrm.tex The invited abstract template - fill in and email to the APS Office. Completion of the template requires only an ASCII file text editor. However, to view or print it will require LaTeX on your system. Complete instructions are contained within the form as comment lines. apsabinv.sty Fully documented LaTeX input style file for the APS invited abstract substyle. Contains macro definitions and comments. This file is not required unless you want to print or view your abstract; it is not necessary to print the abstract before submitting it electronically. USING ANONYMOUS FTP If you are reading this guide on paper and would like to have the electronic abstract materials, you can retrieve the package yourself using a form of file transfer on the Internet known as "anonymous FTP". Following are the steps you use to get the package. % ftp aps.org Username: anonymous Password: ftp> cd pub/meetings/invited ftp> get README.INV ftp> get apsabinv.sty ftp> get apsinfrm.tex ftp> get apsinvin.txt ftp> bye INSTALLING THE STYLE FILES If you want to print out your abstract, the apsabinv.sty file must be "installed" so that LaTeX can read it. This simply means that the apsabinv.sty file must be placed either in (1) the working directory containing the paper being processed [single-user installation], or (2) in the TeX/LaTeX system input directory [site-wide installation]. Individuals who obtain the files for their personal use should just put the files in the same directory that they usually use when preparing papers, memos, etc. with LaTeX. Sites that expect several authors to use the package will probably find it preferable to install the files in the standard TeX inputs area. (Remember that there are different sets of files for Invited and Contributed papers.) In the parlances of popular operating systems, these areas are typically called /usr/local/lib/tex/inputs Unix and variants C:\EMTEX\TEXINPUT MS-DOS and Windows SOME$DISK:[TEX.INPUTS] VMS/Files-11 specification The user's guide and sample papers could be kept in a system-wide TeX input directory as well. ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS The package has been prepared by Chris Biemesderfer of ferberts associates, in conjunction with the Headquarters Information Services and Meetings Department staff at the APS Office. Comments, suggestions, etc., can be sent electronically to the APS office: abs-help@aps.org Community input will be evaluated and the evolution of the package will be coordinated with the BAPS editor and publisher. 19 Nov 1994 REVISION HISTORY v1.0, Oct 94 Original version written, based on aasab.v16.