ACTA IMEKO Latex class file

Author

Federico Tramarin Univ. Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy tramarin@unimore.it

HISTORY

A first draft of the class was produced by Corey Stambaugh (corey.stambaugh @ nist.gov) more or less 09/12/2018. The class was written to mimic the template style of the ACTA IMEKO journal https://acta.imeko.org/ which is written as a .doc file by: Thomas Bruns, Dirk Röske, Paul P. L. Regtien, Francisco Alegria

This class file was originally downloaded as SelfArx.cls. Template Source: This template has been downloaded from: http://www.latextemplates.com/template/stylish-article License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

Then, in Sept. 2023 the journal EiC (prof. F. Lamonaca) asked to produce a stable and final Latex class for Acta IMEKO, able o reproduce the same format of the MS Word template.

The main reasons for a rewrite are that matching the Word template requires quite a lot of font tunings, and obsolete commands (like \bf \it) do not support LaTeX2e's new font selection scheme, or NFSS{\bf foo}, for example, resets all font attributes which had been set earlier. also, we need new options to produce the camera ready and final version, etc.

INSTALLATION

At the moment the package has not been yet published on CTAN, and hence cannot be installed through the usual channels (TeX Live package manager, MikTeX, etc.).

Hence, at the moment the most simple ways to have the package working properly are:

copy the three files (imeko_acta.cls, imeko_acta.bst and imeko.png) in the same folder of your LaTeX files (the sources of your paper)
if you plan to use it several times, put it in your local TEXMF folder, usually under your home dir (please refer to online guides to locate the exact position of this folder).

CHANGELOG

Version 1.8

Author: FT
Date: 08/02/2024
Notes
- Updated the LICENSE of this project, now under the LPPL license.
- Corrected some serious bugs in class
- fixed endbibliography code
- switched to \edef with dates in titlepage to correctly support for \today
- included siunitx package by default (it's a measurement journal in the end :smile:)

Version 1.7

Author: FT
Date: 06/02/2024
Notes
- Several enhancements on the code
- Removed code dependencies on "titlesec" and "calc", which are now not loaded
- Rewrote the code for the titlepage, so that standard latex commands can be used, like "title", "\begin{abstract}", etc.

Version 1.6

Author: FT
Date: 01/02/2024
Notes
- Rewrote the code for producing the bibliography, now with bib labels hanged on the left.
- Added the \AIBreakAtRef command to equalize last column.
- Automatic alternate row coloring
- author management robust to multiple affiliations

Vers: 1.5

Author: FT
Date: 13/01/2024
Notes
- Several bug corrections after first article sent to production.
- Solved issues with metadata (especially author names)
- Added the Subject and SubmissionNumber.

Vers: 1.4

Author: FT
Date: 12/12/2023
Notes
- This version introduced some other tweaks to match the Word template
- Now the citations are typesetted as in the word template
- We introduced the tabularx environment to have tables with 100% column width
- Now also the bibliography (BST) file is correct!

Vers: 1.3

Author: FT
Date: 03/10/2023
Notes
- This version introduced all the needed tweaks to interline spaces, character expansions and other minor typographical dimensions to match the Word template.
- Currently, the same paper, if typesetted with the Word and the LaTeX templates renders almost identically...a part from the bibligraphy style, that needs some more polishings

Vers: 1.2

Author: FT
Date: 27/09/2023
Notes
- This version finally have all the needed stuffs for a correct authors management
- Notably, we can reference to the corresponding author indicating the number of the author in the list, this will automatically keep the name
- Added an option to show or not the corresp. author mark
- Symplified the structure for authors
- Solved a serious interference between hyperref and authors names

Vers: 1.1

Author: FT
Date: 25/09/2023
Notes
- This version adds support for all the needed PDF metadata