Ishida, Yasushi

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HOW TO USE BIC ARTICLE CLASSFILE AND REMARKS
by
Masao MORI
Reprinted from the Bulletin of Informatics and Cybernetics
Research Association of Statistical Sciences,Vol.00, No.00
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Bulletin of Informatics and Cybernetics, Vol. 00, No. 00, 00
HOW TO USE BIC ARTICLE CLASSFILE AND
REMARKS
By
Masao MORI
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Abstract
This document provides the usage of BIC article class file (bic-art.cls version 0.5a)
for authors to write articles for Bulletin of Informatics and Cybernetics. LATEX2e is required.
LATEX2.09 is not supported, however, most of features provided in bic-art.sty are re-
tained.
Key Words and Phrases: LATEX, TEX, document preparation, desktop publishing, PC-UNIX, Windows,
Mathematics, Information science.
1. Introduction
The class file bic-art.cls is a LATEX2e document class file to write articles for Bulletin
of Informatics and Cybernetics (BIC, for short). Authors are supposed to submit articles for
BIC in form of LATEX source. Note that bic-art.cls requires not LATEX2.09 but LATEX2e.
For LATEX2.09 users should utilize old version bic-art.sty, however, LATEX2e is highly
recommended. We suppose that LATEX2e is installed in TeX Directory Standard (TDS, for short)
and denote $texmf for the top directory of TDS.
2. Getting the class file
The BIC article class file can be obtained from the URL:
http://www.i.kyushu-u.ac.jp/bic
Ftp server is also avalable:
ftp://ftp.i.kyushu-u.ac.jp/bic
Put the class file bic-art.cls in the working directory, or $texmf/tex/latex/base.
Windows users should note that folders below the My document folder is not recommended
for the working directory. LATEX2e may not find the class file.
3. Features
Features of bic-art.cls are introduced. Most of them are retained from the old version
bic-art.sty. New and modified features are marked with

and  , respectively, stable
features are not marked.
	
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3.1. Preamble
A LATEX source file begins with \documentclass[]{} 
 command. For bic-art.cls
we start a file as the following. With an option reprint the cover page for reprint would be output.
The class file fixes charactor size at 10 points and b5 paper size for the purpose of checking the
accurate pages of an article. So that if another option such as b4paper or 12pt are specified,
LATEX2e would warn and not output dvi files. To use package the \usepackage[]{} com-
mand should be declared. Specially if authors need to include graphics(EPS etc), the graphicx
package would be convinient. See ?.
\documentclass{bic-art}
or
\documentclass[reprint]{bic-art}
\usepackage[dvips,xdvi]{graphicx}
The DVI file would have twoside pages and be formed in b5 paper. Another Paper sizes are
not supported. Use dvips command with appropriate options to convert DVI files to ps files.
We remark that the old version bic-art.sty can be used in LATEX2e. But some troubles are
reported.
In preamble BIC articles requires particularly the following commands, \bictitle{} 
 ,
\bicvol{}, bicno{}, \bicyear{} and \bic*author 
 command family.
 \bictitle{arg} takes one argument arg which is the title of the article changed
into upper case charactors. With reprint option in \documentclass command the
arg would be also used for the title in the cover page.
 \bicvol{arg}(optional), \bicno{arg}(optional) and \bicyear{arg}(optional)
commands set parameters volume, number and the published year of BIC, respectively.
Each of them takes one argument. If not declared the default value ’00’ would be set.
The class file bic-art.cls provide \bic*author 
 command family as follows. All of
command is used for authors’ name in cover page, title page and headers. Family names would
be shown in SMALL CAPS font and first names would be shorten in headers.
 \bicauthor[thanks]{firstname}{familyname} 
 take thanks option to de-
scribe institutes, contact address etc. Do not use \thanks command, use this option.
 \bicfirstauthor[thanks]{firstname}{familyname}  would be used to
describe the first author of the article in case that there are more than two authors. The
commands \bicsecondauthor[]{}{}  \bicfifithauthor[]{}{}  are
provided for the rest of authors. In case of more than six authors, please get in touch
with editor.
Remark that for the thanks option there is a restriction of LATEX that some LATEX command are
not effective.
NOTE 3.1. The settings in preamble have an effect to the document only if the \maketitle
command is called in the document environment. 
How to use BIC article classfile and remarks 3
3.2. Start document
For the inside of document environment, \bickeyword{}  command, custmized ab-
stract environment and customized theorem environment family are provided.
 \bickeyword{keywords}  (optional) command outputs keywords and phrases in the
abstract which are specified in the argument keywords. Note that this command should
be declared before abstract environment in the following.
 abstract environment is a customized abstract environment which shows keywords
and phrases only if \bickeyword{}  command is declared in advance.
Theorem environment family consists of theorem, proposition, lemma, collorary,
definition, axiom and note. Theorem number are unified for each section except proof
and remark which have no numbers. It is possible to define new environment with \de-
finethm command.
 \definethm[numbering]{name}{headline} requires three arguments. The ar-
gument name is the environment name and headline would be output for the headline
of this environment. The headline is in SMALL CAPS font and the content is in Roman
font. Theorem–numbering follows the option numbering. See LATEX reference (?) for
\newtheorem command about theorem–numbering. The default of option number-
ing does not output its theorem–number as proof and note environments.
NOTE 3.2. In case that the statement begins parenthesis in a theorem environment, theorem
labels may be in bold font. To avoid this, those words with parenthesis should be enclosed by
bracket {}. For instance,
\begin{theorem} (Gauss) % label is in bold font.
% should be
\begin{theorem} {(Gauss)}
Next version of class file will resolve the bug. 
For acknowledgement acknowledgement environment is provided.
 acknowledgement environment shows its centered headline and the acknowledge-
ment in Roman font without indention.
Author may use a square box to show the end of proofs, theorems and statements. Cur-
rently \Box command is obsolete in LATEX2e, however, bic-art.cls provide a substitute
command \qed for square boxes.
 \qed outputs a square box 
which can be used in both text mode and math mode.
4. Reference section
For the reference section a modified thebibliography 
 environment is provided with
modified commands \bibitem[]{}{} 
 and \cite{} 
 . Generally speaking it is necessary
to compile LATEX2e source file more than twice to output reference section successfully. See ?
for more detail.
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 \bibitem[citation]{author}{year}{citestring} 
 takes four arguments.
Note that citation is not option but used in \cite{} command so that it is required
to specify for citation. citestring is shown as an author name for reference in the
document. It would be efficient if there are plural authors. For instance,
\begin{thebibliography}{99}
\bibitem[Knuth]{Knuth,D.}{1970}{Knuth}
\textit{The \TeX book}, ASCII corporation, Japanese.
\bibitem[GMS]{Goossens,M., Mittelbach,F. and Samarin,A.}%
{1994}{Goossens et al.} \textit{The \LaTeX companion},
Addison Wesley, Japanese.
\end{thebibliography}
If we cite \cite{Knuth} and \cite{GMS} then output would be ? and ?.
 \cite{citation} 
 command outputs a citation in the form citestring(year)
and list it up in the reference section.
5. Remarks
Some remarks are noted for editing and printing out. We suppose that LATEX2e is installed
in TeX Directory Standard (TDS, for short). We note $texmf for the top directory of TDS.
5.1. Folders and directories
The class file bic-art.cls should be put in the working directory or any directories
directly under $texmf/tex/latex/. Windows users should note that the folders below My
document is not recommended for the working directory. LATEX2e may not find the class file.
5.2. Including graphics
It is possible to include graphics into articles. It is recommended for authors to may make
use of graphics package (?) bundled into LATEX2e. To do this it is necessary to call it with the
\usepackage command.
\usapackage[dvips,xdvi]{graphicx}
There are two kind of style files in graphics package. See the enclosed document in ?. For
instance, an Encapsled PostScript graphic file fig-1.eps can be included by the command:
\usepackage[dvips,xdvi]{graphicx} % In preamble
.....
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[scale=0.5]{fig-1.eps}
\label{fig:1}
\end{center}
Another graphics format can be used with this package, however, it is necessary to prepare
drivers to deal with them.
How to use BIC article classfile and remarks 5
5.3. Converting to PostScript file with dvipsk
Currently dvips(version 5.78 p1.4c) does not support paper size b5. The config file
$texmf/dvips/config.ps might be modified.
@ B5 182mm 257mm
@+ ! %%DocumentPaperSizes: B5
@+ %%BeginPaperSize: B5
@+ b5
@+ %%EndPaperSize
@ B4 257mm 364mm
@+ ! %%DocumentPaperSizes: B4
@+ %%BeginPaperSize: B4
@+ b4
@+ %%EndPaperSize
Add the above lines to the end of $texmf/dvips/config.ps file. If authors are familiar
with UNIX version of dvips, conversion would be done by the following command.
$ dvips -o output.ps -t B5 file.dvi
$ gs output.ps
The command gs (GhostScript) shows the converted PostScript documents.
Acknowledgement
Prof. Yanagawa, Editor–In–Chief of BIC, had been patient and encouraged me for the BIC class
file for LATEX2e. I would like to thank Prof. Yanagawa.
References
Lamport,L. (1994). LATEX: A Document Preparation System, 2nd edition, Pearson Education
Japan.
Knuth,D. (1970). The TEXbook, ASCII corporation, Japanese.
Goossens,M., Mittelbach,F. and Samarin, A. (1994). The LATEXcompanion, Addison Wesley,
Japanese.
Carlisle,D.P. and Rahtz,S.P.Q. (1997). The graphics package, LATEX2e standard bundle pack-
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