Drafting tools

Tools and Tips

Sorting Script

There's a script for sorting comments. It requires a little effort from the sorter - but speeds up the sorting process quite nicely.

From an email explaining the use of the script:

" The script needs a little bit of human pre-processing on the comments file in order to work properly. This is a bug relating to the style of the input file - it is homogenous with no key or data structure.

Therefore, someone needs to go through the comments file beforehand and separate each comment on a line with a line break, e.g:

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General Comments: The papre is fine but needs a bit of work. I particularly like the shiny widgets that you have created. My comments on each line follow: l143: Change pidgeon to person. l249: I don't understand what you mean by 'crazy whirling'. l546: You could reference the work of Cowboy Neal here.

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becomes

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General Comments: The papre is fine but needs a bit of work. I particularly like the shiny widgets that you have created. My comments on each line follow:

l143: Change pidgeon to person.

l249: I don't understand what you mean by 'crazy whirling'.

l546: You could reference the work of Cowboy Neal here.

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The script is pretty well commented - you should find it easy to understand.

Sorting Script hosted on www-hermes

Links

Useful to know

$\left(\dots \right)$ are parentheses.
$\left[\dots \right]$ are brackets.
$\left\{\dots \right\}$ are braces.

General HERMES thingies

Where to get an author list for your manuscript
What about acknowledgements
What does the Editorial Board has to say about drafting (partially outdated)

Dictionaries

German/English Dictionary (Leo)

Journal recommendations for writing style and style files

The list of journals and the various styles endorsed would be too long to be included here. However, the main journals used by HERMES are listed:

Phys. Rev. Style Guide

Author list

Please check the author list section for info on the handling of authors by the various journals.

Paper Drafts