Information about registration and creation of preprints

In order to publish your paper in the (electronic) AMSMSP Preprint Series (see List of preprints) please note the following:

[item] You first have to register your preprint (Registration).
[item] By completion of the registration, you receive automatically by e-mail the latex-files for creating the cover page (ms_pre_Num_cover.ltx) and a list of "Recent Preprints in this Series" (ms_pre_Num_lastpage.ltx), which is ment to be the last page of your preprint. All needed logos can be downloaded from here: logos.zip.
[item] Please check that the cover page is correct (i.e. linebreaks in the title, special accents in title and names etc.).
[item] Please create a single pdf file, containing the cover page, your text, and the last page, and send it to us (E-Mail). (The parameter -Ppdf is needed in order to get scalable fonts, which is strongly recommended.) You can create the pdf file in the following way:
  1. Ideally your text is written in latex and has the following settings: 
    	    \documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
	    \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
	    \setlength{\voffset}{0cm}
	    \setlength{\topmargin}{0mm}
	    \setlength{\headheight}{0cm}
	    \setlength{\headsep}{0cm}
	    \setlength{\textheight}{24.5cm}
	    \setlength{\footskip}{0mm}
	    \setlength{\hoffset}{0in}
	    \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{0mm}
	    \setlength{\textwidth}{16cm}
	    \setlength{\marginparsep}{0mm}
	    \setlength{\marginparwidth}{0mm}
    In this case, you can create a single latex file, compile it, and transform it into a pdf file via: 
    	   latex filename.ltx
	   dvips -Ppdf -t a4 filename.dvi
	   ps2pdf filename.ps
    If you prefer pdflatex, you can use it also.

    Important: If your paper has odd pages, please insert one empty page at the end. The list of recent preprints must be placed on an odd page.

  2. Compile separately the tex-files for the cover page, your text, and the last page and transform them into pdf-files as above. Then, using the unix shell script cmerge2pdf.sh based on gs, join the three pdf-files to a single one via: 
    	    bash cmerge2pdf.sh -p cover.pdf paper.pdf > cover+paper.pdf 
	    bash cmerge2pdf.sh cover+paper.pdf lastpage.pdf > final_preprint.pdf
    Remark: Please check the final pdf-file. We can not guarantee the right result in all cases.

    Windows user can try either to adapt cmerge2pdf.sh script or use cygwin environment. Surely Adobe Acrobat can be also used for merging pdf-files.

  3. If you are not able to create a single pdf-file, then send the three separate pdf-files of the cover page, your text, and the last page to us.
[item] If you have any problem during this procedure, please don't hesitate to contact us.
Thank you for your cooperation!