1. ILC TDR Guidelines for Authors
TDR All-Authors meeting, 27 Jan 2012
Maura Barone (Fermilab)

2. Resources
Portal for Authors and Editors of the ILC Technical Design Report:
(public page)
Reference material for the TDR Baseline Design
Up-to-date TDR outline
Typesetting guidelines
Word/Latex Templates
Source files for previous reports
Browser view (read-only) of the TDR SVN repository
( access to the document repositories requires login – authors, please register at )
public
login
required

3. Typesetting guidelines
Please download the document “Author's guide to typesetting the TDR” included in the ‘ILCTDR-template’ zip file, and available from the Forge portal. It describes the general typesetting rules, including guidelines on:
Figures: format and quality AUTHORS, PLEASE READ
Tables
Referencing structural elements
Bibliographic references
This document gives LaTeX examples. More detailed information and examples for Word users are available inside the Word template file
Please consult the list of ‘what to do and not to do’ (Word/LaTeX)

4. Templates : : : : LaTeX template template Word TDR-LaTeX-template.tex
example template of a chapter file.
Use this template when writing your content.
Use the wrapper (see below) for compiling it with LaTeX
TDR-LaTeX-template_wrapper.tex
wrapper for building the template. This is the file you will build with LaTeX
TDR-LaTeX-template_bib.tex
template for the bibliographic entries
ILCTDR.cls
LaTeX class for the TDR
LaTeX template
template
Word
TDR-Word-template.dotx
MS Word template. Requires Word >2007

5. Content and images Content editing Images
Word: please use version Word 2007 and above ( “.docx” files )
LaTeX: please use or install a standard TeXLive ( )n distribution
Images
Please consult Section 3 of the guidelines document for instructions
Make sure that the image is of high quality when printed (minimum 300 dots per inch). If not sure, contact the Technical Support
Do not take screen captures, or copy&paste from/into Word/Powerpoint.
For drawings/charts/graphics/plots (everything other than photographs) you must provide vector graphics. Do not convert vector graphics to JPEG or PNG.
For photographs, you can provide JPEG in most cases, better if original (do not scale it, crop it, or convert it)

6. Support For technical support concerning
templates
figures (quality for printing and file format)
file naming and structure
LaTeX issues and requests (ex. additional packages or abbreviations)
bibliography …
please contact the TDR Technical Support:
Maura Barone
Benno List

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