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Seminar on Internetworking
Instructions for the outlook of seminar papers
In scientific writing the outlook of the paper is one very important issue. The outlook should be such that the paper can be published without having to do too much work to make it look reasonably good. It also gives a better impression of the paper and the author as well if the outlook is simple and practical.
Therefore we will be very strict with the outlook of the papers on this course. If the paper does not look like the given template (PDF) the grade will go down with -1. This is not our conspiracy against students. In computer science conferences the author is expected to do the layout by him/herself, and poorly looking papers are usually rejected without considering their merits.
The students must produce the final paper in the following formats:
- an HTML version for publication on the Web
- either Postscript or PDF for the printed publication.
There is a latex template for typesetting the papers: template.tex, mypicture1.eps.
The required formats can be produced from the latex template (almost) automatically.
- To create the postscript file:
latex template; latex template; dvips -o template.ps template - To create the PDF file:
ps2pdf template.ps - To produce the HTML document:
latex2html -split 0 -local_icons -address Tom.Tutor@hut.fi template
Expect to have some problems with the HTML conversion, though. You can edit the HTML code by hand and save your images into PNG or GIF bitmaps.
The results look like this: template.ps, template.pdf.
A good latex-tutorial can be found at http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/latex_advanced/latex_advanced.html
You may format your paper by using some other tool. However, it would definitely cause you many problems if you do want to achieve the same layout. We recommend then to copy the format from the example PDF file for the details. Note that the text must be typeset in 11pt Times with 35mm margins on every side.
This page is maintained by Internetworking teaching staff,
E-mail: iwork@tml.hut.fi.
The page has been last updated on December 20, 2000
URL: http://www.tml.hut.fi/Opinnot/Tik-110.551/2001/layout.html