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Seminar on Internetworking
Instructions for the layout of seminar papers
In scientific writing the layout of the paper is one very important issue. The layout should be such that the paper can be published without having to do too much work to make it look reasonably good. It also gives a better impression of the paper and the author as well if the layout is simple and practical.
Therefore we will be very strict with the layout of the papers on this course. If the paper does not look like the given template (PDF) the grade will go down with -1. This is not our conspiracy against students. In computer science conferences the author is expected to do the layout by him/herself, and poorly looking papers are usually rejected without considering their merits.
The students must produce the final paper in the PDF-format.
There is a latex template for typesetting the papers (links corrected 4.4.2002): template.tex, mypicture1.eps.
The links previously pointed to last year's template. The only difference between the two is the header, so if you've used the outdated template, please check that your header contains the right information.
The required formats can be produced from the latex template (almost) automatically.
- To create the postscript file:
latex template; latex template; dvips -o template.ps template - To create the PDF file:
ps2pdf template.ps
The results look like this: template.ps, template.pdf.
A good latex-tutorial can be found at http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/latex_advanced/latex_advanced.html
A very simple latex-tutorial, that won't help you all the way but that explains the very basics, can be found at http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/latex_basic/latex_basic.html
You may format your paper by using some other tool. However, it would definitely cause you many problems if you do want to achieve the same layout. We recommend then to copy the format from the example PDF file for the details. Note that the text must be typeset in 11pt Times with 35mm margins on every side.
This page is maintained by Internetworking teaching staff,
E-mail: iwork@tml.hut.fi.
The page has been last updated on April 8th, 2002.
URL: http://www.tml.hut.fi/Studies/T-110.551/2002/layout.html