Information for preparation of papers

The contact address is shlhetal AT math DOT huji DOT ac DOT il.

All these papers are processed electronically in the Shelah's Archive. The public web frontend to this archive can be seen here. This public frontend is not always up to date and does not contain all available files (only the so-called public ones).

You can help the people working on this archive by implementing as many of the following guidelines as possible.

We assume that you use LaTeX or (plain) TeX. If you have or want to use another system (MS word, groff, whatever) then please send us the source file as well as a .ps or .pdf file. Under Windows such a file can be created with the free Adobe Postscript printer driver (just install the driver and print to a file).

• If the number of the paper is e.g. 1012, then call the main tex file 1012.tex. Other source files (.tex, .eps, ..) can be used (included) as well. All the file used have to be in the same directory (i.e. do not use subdirectories such as figures/fig1.eps).
• Use bibtex for your bibliography, and always use listb.bib and lista.bib to cite (joint) papers of Shelah and his books, resp. You can also use listx.bib, a bib file with various logic related citations. If you additionally use other citations, put all of them into a file called papernumber.bib, e.g. 1012.bib
• Test which files you need to process your file. (Sometimes people forget to send nonstandard packages or style files they use, such as asl.cls etc.)

  To make sure you send all the files that are needed, do the following if possible: use a computer with a standard tex implementation (e.g. tetex or miktex) without additional style files/packages in the local tex path. Create a new directory, copy all the files into this directory and try to (la)tex/bibtex the file.

  Send all the files that are required, apart from listb.bib, listf.bib and listx.bib.

• Send versions to shlhetal. In your email, include as attachements (as single uncompressed files, not as a zip archive) all the source files needed to compile the paper (apart from the list?.bib files, as already mentioned).
• You are invited to send versions to the archive regularly while the paper is in progress. You definitely should send every version that is submitted, as well as galley proofs etc.
• For every version you send, describe the status (e.g. "I submitted this version to JSL today", or "This version just fixes some typos", or "first draft" etc.) and state whether this version should be public (a public version will at some stage appear at the public front end, and might be submitted to the arxiv).
• Please always check with shlhetal what are the acknowledgments Saharon wishes to have added to his name in the paper.
• If you want to submit the paper to the arxiv, please do the following:
  1. In the arxiv field Report-no, add e.g. Shelah [RoSh:480]. Use the appropriate paper number instead of 410, and use your shelah-bibliography abbreviation instead of Ro, if you do not know it look it up in listb.bib, if you do not yet have a joint paper with Shelah, ask us for the correct abbreviation. Another example for a Report-no entry: Shelah [KrSh:828].
  2. Bounce (or forward) your confirmation email (containing the arxiv number and the paper-password) to us.