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*   LATEX STYLES FOR AMERICAN GEOPHYICAL UNION   *
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            Latest news from 1994 May 26
            
The American Geophysical Union (AGU) has finally come out with its own
official LaTeX package for producing manuscripts and camera-ready copy for its
journals. At the same time the format of the journals has been dramatically
altered. Thus my unofficial LaTeX package for AGU (art-jgr and art-grl)
becomes not only superfluous but obsolete.

However, in looking over the instructions and coding of the official package,
I realize that not only are some imperfections present, but many useful
features of my styles are missing. The most noticeable of these is the means
of using author-year citations with BibTeX in an automated manner.

The coding imperfections are related to the way in which figure captions and
tables are treated: they must be placed at the end of the document, and if an
appendix is present, then the automatic numbering system will consider them as
appendix figures and tables (numbered A1, A2, ...). To avoid this, explicit
numbers must be given, something that violates the essential principles of a
formatting program like LaTeX. A second implication of this treatment is that
preprints will be missing the figures and tables in the text. In my older
system, neither of these problems occurred.

BY POPULAR DEMAND, I have undertaken to write an extension to the official AGU
package, called AGU++ (for AGU doubly-ionized or super-charged, as you
please). It includes my extra features without changing any of the formats of
the original package. The user should prepare his documents in the manner
described by the AGU, except that figures, tables, and plates are to be
included *in the text*. A number of extra commands are available to control
and/or enable the extra features.

Details on how to use AGUTeX with AGU++ are to be found in the manual
AGUPLUS.TEX. The package is still EXPERIMENTAL, so I would appreciate 
comments and complaints from trial users. The package consists of the files:

I have now come up with version 1.0 (not so experimental), which is compatible
with the new standard LaTeX2e, as well as with the older standard 2.09.
Since AGUTeX itself has some problems with LaTeX2e, a patch is included.

aguplus.sty     The style file itself
aguplus.tex     A manual, to be LaTeX (under AGUTeX and AGU++)
samplus.tex     A sample paper
agu2e.sty       A package for LaTeX2e, to patch up inconsistencies in AGUTeX
agu.bst         A bibliography style file with AGU formats
sample.bib      A BibTeX data base, for use with samplus.tex

In addition, I supply some useful files for listing the contents of *.bib
files, with their keys. These have nothing really to do with AGU as such.
keylist.tex     A file to be LaTeXed in order to list a *.bib file contents
keylist.bst     A bibliography style to go along with it.

NOTE: this package does not contain AGUTeX itself. This is because AGU++ is
still unofficial. (The AGU is considering what they want to do with it.)
The official package can be obtained from anonymous FTP server 
           kosmos.agu.org
in directory   agutex

Patrick W. Daly
Max-Planck-Institut f\"ur Aeronomie
D-37189 Katlenburg-Lindau

daly@linmpi.dnet.gwdg.de