SolarNews Submission Guidelines

SolarNews is produced in LaTeX, using the latex2html translator on it to generate HTML which is then posted here and saved as text for the e-mail distribution. Therefore, you are more likely to get the formatting that you desire, and it will make things easier for our hard working Secretary if you submit contributions to SolarNews directly in LaTeX. Please follow the following guidelines:

Embed your document in the standard \documentclass{article}, \begin{document}, and \end{document} LaTeX constructs.
Use \section to begin your SolarNews submission. For example, this section of this issue begins \section{SolarNews News}.
Place Web addresses inside a \link, and e-mail addresses inside \mailto. For example, you would write the following:
```
Please see my Web page at \link{http://www.csun.edu/\~{}swalton}
or send me e-mail at \mailto{stephen\_walton@csun.edu}.
```
Notice the tilde and underscore above. Since these are special characters to LaTeX, they have to be `escaped' by preceding them with a backslash. Moreover, \~ is an accent mark, which we apply to an empty box ({}) so that the resulting hyperlink turns out correctly. In order to see what your text will look like, put the following after your \documentclass:
```
\newcommand\link[1]{#1}
\newcommand\mailto[1]{#1}
```
which will typeset the text of the links in your document. The editor will replace these with my own definitions when they receive your submission.
Do not use any mathematics! Until that happy day when MathML is an adopted Web standard and most mail clients understand it, the regular mailing of SolarNews has to go out in plain text.
On the other hand, you are encouraged to use the enumerate, itemize, center, and verse environments. I use verse for things like street addresses:
```
\begin{verse}
Stephen Walton\\
Cal State Northridge\\
Northridge, CA 91330\\
\end{verse}
```
Run your submission through LaTeX at your end before sending it to the editor.