Ivoatex

Juande Santander juandesant at gmail.com
Wed Aug 13 04:09:15 PDT 2014


Thank you all for the effort.

What is the license for this template? Can it be brought to GitHub, and/or
CTAN? It would really be better if this template could live outside of
volute, and one did not need to check out the complete repository if there
is something one would like to propose tweaking.


On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Markus Demleitner <
msdemlei at ari.uni-heidelberg.de> wrote:

> Dear VO enthusiasts,
>
> There has been some unhappyness with authoring tools for IVOA
> documents for a while -- while the various office formats cannot
> really be used with version control systems (and pose substantial
> interoperability problems), the existing markup-based efforts have
> all had various issues.  After having promoted one of these, ivoadoc,
> for a while, I had to realise that the relatively clumsy input format
> and the shaky tooling probably will preclude widespread acceptance.
>
> Hence, based on work by Mark Taylor, Sebastien Derriere and Paul
> Harrison, I've now started ivoatex, which uses TeX as input format
> and should immediately work wherever a reasonable TeX distribution
> and GNU make is present -- I expect that should be the case just
> about wherever science is done these days.
>
> It's certainly still in development yet (I'm using it to review
> IVOA Identifiers), but I'd consider it fit for wider consumption and
> of course would welcome people helping to push it along.
>
> So, if you're about to start a new IVOA document (notes included) or
> plan to do substantial revisions on an old one, please at least have
> a quick look at ivoatex.  It is available from volute, with a brief
> introduction available at
>
> http://volute.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/projects/ivoapub/ivoatex/README
>
> In case you're wondering how instance documents would look like,
> check out the identifiers revision at
>
> http://volute.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/projects/registry/Identifiers/
>
> Cheers,
>
>       Markus
>
>


-- 
Juande Santander-Vela
System Engineer (Science Data Processor/Telescope Manager)
Square Kilometre Array/SKA Organisation
Jodrell Bank Observatory, Lower Withington
Macclesfield SK11 9DL, United Kingdom
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