% This file is part of the ENTCS LaTeX package.
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% Version: 3
% Date:    20 July 2003

Copyright (C) 2003

IMPORTANT NOTICE:

You are not allowed to change this readme file.

This the ENTCS LaTeX package. You need the new standard LaTeX2e if you
want to utilize this package to typeset LaTex to suit the formatting
requirements of ENTCS. The older version of LaTeX, version 2.09 of 14
January 1992 or later, is no longer supported. These files are based
on Elsevier Sceince's elsart.sty package, and the documentation for
that package (suitably modified for the ENTCS files) can be found in
the files instraut.dvi (for which you need AMSFonts v2.1),
instraut.ps, and inst.ascii and example.tex. (Note, however, that
these files acknowledge support for LaTeX, which is no longer true.)

ENTCS is being incoporated in SceinceDirect, Elsevier's main platform
for publishing electronic series. Because of this, only .pdf files are
required -- the use of PostScript files is no longer required, nor
supported. Complete instructions about to create .pdf files can be
found in the file example.tex, which is included in this
package. While one can use pdfLaTeX to prepare a suitable .pdf file,
this approach does have drawbacks if .eps files are used for
graphics. The same problem occurs if Paul Gastin's gastex package is
used to prepare diagrams. If this is the case, it usually is simpler
to use LaTeX 2e, followed by dvips, and then by ps2pdf to prepare the
.pdf file. More details is included in the file example.tex.  This
file can be used as templates for your own files.

In any case, you should read over example.pdf *before* preparing your
own files. There are special requirements that using .pdf files
imposes -- in particular, you must use LaTeX2e to accomplish this.

You should have the following files:

readme.first    The file you are reading now.
 
ascii.tab	    A table of ascii codes for the various keyboard symbols.
		    A copy of this should be included in you main file to
		    allow any differneces in keyboard coding to be easily 
		    corrected.

entcs.cls	    The main document style for LaTeX 2e..  Copy this
                    to the directory where all other .sty files are kept

entcsmacro.sty      A style file with additional macros for the entcs package.

example.tex         A sample LaTeX file to be compiled using the encs package,
		    which also serves as a template for preparing your
		    paper. There also are included the output file
		    example.dvi, as well as the usual LaTeX files
		    example.aux and example.log.

instr.ascii	    A plain ascii file telling you how to set things up.

instraut.dvi        Booklet containing instructions on how to prepare a 
                    file suitable for processing by Elsevier. This is for use 
                    with Elsevier's earlier version of its own LaTeX  
                    preparation package, but it provides some useful hints 
                    for the ENTCS package as well. 

instraut.ps         PostScript version of the booklet
