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ACA 97 "Gotchas"
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- Subject: ACA 97 "Gotchas"
- From: "John D. Barnes" <john.barnes@NIST.GOV>
- Date: Mon, 03 Mar 1997 15:10:29 +0000
Dear Colleagues; A careful reading of the Call for Papers for the 1997 Annual Meeting in St. Louis reveals a number of new features to the abstract submission process for this meeting. EVERYONE who intends to submit an abstract for this meeting should read the "Call for Papers" booklet very carefully. Those who may not have gotten this booklet can find the material at http://www.hwi.buffalo.edu/ACA/ACA97/Call97.html. Noteworthy features: 1. Special fees for hardcopy submission of abstracts. 2. Abstract submission fees for people who are not members of the ACA (including invited speakers). This is actually a deposit that is credited toward the meeting registration fee. 3. Late fees for abstracts submitted past the March 7th deadline. There is a certain vagueness about the matter of acceptable formats. Since the peoiple who made the rules did not give us TeX as an option, my advice to anyone who wants to include special characters in their abstract is to prepare the abstract as HTML and paste it into an e-mail message. Since HTML does not handle greek characters, I would simply spell them out. HTML does handle the angrstom symbol as well as superscripts and subscripts. Unfortunately the specifications do not tell us how to format the various parts of the document using HTML. The instructions also do not provide a model e-mail message to use in formatting your submission, so that you may have to guess at the format for the various items they ask you to supply in the message. I am testing my submission to see if they they take it. You may wish to check with me before sending yours in. For these reasons I strongly suggest that you send a carbon copy of any message submitting an abstract or making an inquiry to me at john.barnes@nist.gov. This way there will be two of us to follow up on the possibility that something has fallen into a crack. Meanwhile, remember that March 7th is the deadline to get your abstracts in and avoid the $100 late fee. Thank You. . John D. Barnes Phone: 301-975-6786 Polymer Mechanics and Structure Group FAX: 301-977-2018 Bldg 224, Rm A209 email: john.barnes@nist.gov Natl Inst Stds and Tech Gaithersburg, MD 20899 URL: http://www.ctcms.nist.gov/~jdbarnes/staff.jdb.html
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