Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica

Source code of LaTeX macros and production scripts for the academic astronomy journal RMxAA and conference series RMxAC. The journal is owned and run by the Instituto de Astronomía of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM).

This repository will mainly be of interest to those wishing to contribute to development of the macros and scripts. Authors and editors who wish only to use them can download the relevant package from the RMxAA macros website.

Development process

• The main file for the LaTeX macros and their documentation is source/rmaa.dtx, which is in DocTeX format.
• Running make macros in the source/ directory will generate the class file rmaa.cls, together with auxiliary style files and scripts. These can be installed into the packages/ folder with make install-macros.
• Running make docs in the source/ directory will generate a PDF document of the annotated source code, while make install-docs will install it as packages/rm-fulldocs.pdf

Preparing a new release of the packages

• Running make in the packages/ folder will create tarballs and zip files for distribution, but there are things that need editing by hand first.

Recent changes and plans for the future

• The next release of the macros will be 4.0, which is currently in beta testing
  • This adds support for DOI and ORCID iD links. It also probably breaks compatibility with very old (last century) versions of LaTeX.
  • Remaining issues for version 4.0
  • Further details are here
• More far-reaching changes are planned for the future
  • Planned features on GitHub issues