General ⇒ Journal form error

[Leonardo100]

Hi :

First of all, sorry if this post is not in the right section.

I'm trying to send a paper to Natural Sciences Publishing. They give a latex format to follow. But, when I try to generate their original file, it always give me errors like these

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And other errors.

I asked the journal editor about these errors. She said for me the error with your programs, I'm using TexShop, I tried also using Winedit on different computers. it always give the same errors.

Here is the link for the original file that I got it from them :

http://www.naturalspublishing.com/files ... 62v72i.zip

please,may you help to fix these errors?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Leonardo,

welcome to the forum!

The error is caused by the original template paper.tex. The class loads the color package via:

\RequirePackage{color}

But it should load the xcolor package with a color naming option, such as:

\RequirePackage[dvipsnames]{xcolor}

You could tell this th the journal editor.

You can fix it by inserting this line right at the top of your own document, before \documentclass{...}:

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\RequirePackage[dvipsnames]{xcolor}
\documentclass[10pt]{NSP1}
...

A general remark: this template uses obsolete syntax, it's not a good example that should be recommended. For example the faulty eqnarray environment, equations by $$...$$ instead of \[...\], manual formatting and manual numbering of theorems, such as in \textbf{Theorem 3.1.}. And there are obsolete font commands that just don't work this way. See:

\titlefigurecaption{{\large \bf \rm Applied Mathematics \& Information Sciences }

That's not bold as obviously intended, as the \rm (roman, serif font) overrides the \bf (bold font). it is not bold in the document.

This part in the option would work:

\large \bf \rmfamily Applied Mathematics \& Information Sciences }

but better

\large \bfseries \rmfamily Applied Mathematics \& Information Sciences }
Just as remarks. You can talk with us about formatting details, if you like, maybe we can help you even with the bad template, since a journal requires to use its template.

Stefan

[Leonardo100]

Thanks Stefan, It works fine with me now...I will send them a link for this page in this forum to fix the problem.

A general remark: this template uses obsolete syntax, it's not a good example that should be recommended. For example the faulty eqnarray environment, equations by $$...$$ instead of \[...\], manual formatting and manual numbering of theorems, such as in \textbf{Theorem 3.1.}. And there are obsolete font commands that just don't work this way. See:

\titlefigurecaption{{\large \bf \rm Applied Mathematics \& Information Sciences }

That's not bold as obviously intended, as the \rm (roman, serif font) overrides the \bf (bold font). it is not bold in the document.

This part in the option would work:

\large \bf \rmfamily Applied Mathematics \& Information Sciences }

but better

\large \bfseries \rmfamily Applied Mathematics \& Information Sciences }
Just as remarks. You can talk with us about formatting details, if you like, maybe we can help you even with the bad template, since a journal requires to use its template.

I agree with you 100%