# Prepublication preparation for SLC

If an article is accepted for publication, it would save us a lot of time if the following checklist is gone through.
(It is the checklist that we go through. If you should already have done it, it would be great help for us.)
1. There should be one TeX file, that is, the references should already be in the TeX file (no bib-file!), and please no separate files for each section! Of course, if you have separate figure files, this is totally okay.
2. The article must be in 12pt.
3. The paper size should not be exceedingly large.
(textwidth 16cm=6.3in and textheight 23cm=9in are maxima.)
4. Replace \date{...} by \date{}.
(No date should show up.)
5. Look through the file whether you discover any

>From

(as a result of email transmission.)

6. Run the file through a spelling checker. Experience shows that it always finds something.
7. If you write in English, be aware of conventions and meanings of words in English: for example,
• There are no mathematical objects called "applications" in English. Instead, there are "maps".
• It is not advisable to develop a function f(x) in a Taylor series, but it is preferable to expand f(x) in a Taylor series, respectively to compute its Taylor series expansion.
• The terms "positive" and "negative" do not mean the same in English as they do in French.
• The French verb "remarquer" can have two different translations in English: "to remark" (in case you want to tell something to the reader) or "to observe" (in case that you "note" something).
• One cannot "precise" anything. Instead, one can "make something precise".
• Similarly, one cannot "explicit" anything. Instead, one can "make something explicit".
• In a similar vein, one cannot "explicate" anything. Instead, one can "explain" something (respectively "make something explicit," depending on what you really want to say).
• "analogue" is exclusively a substantive (and it is the non-American spelling). The adjective is "analogous".
• "The Macdonald's theorem" does not exist. Instead there is "the theorem of Macdonald" or "Macdonald's theorem" (no "the" or "a" before the latter!).
8. Do not use abbreviations such as "iff", "rhs", "resp.", "w.r.t.", etc. Use "if and only if", "right-hand side", "respectively", "with respect to", etc., instead.
9. If you use LaTeX (as, of course, most do nowadays), then, please, do not use LaTeX's "article" format

\documentclass[12pt]{article}

It looks terrible with all these huge white spaces and letters.
Instead we recommend the AmS-LaTeX article format

\documentclass[12pt]{amsart}

(unless you have something even more beautiful).

10. In order to avoid inappropiate line breaks, one should use "~" wherever it is necessary. For example, one should write

Section~5

instead of "Section 5", and one should write

Theorem~\ref{...}

instead of "Theorem \ref{...}", etc.

11. In general, do not use

\begin{eqnarray}
\end{eqnarray}

It looks terrible. Instead use

\begin{align}
\end{align}

or

\begin{multline}
\end{multline}

or

\begin{gather}
\end{gather}

12. Do not use "align" in the form

\begin{align}
LHS1 =& RHS1 \\
LHS2 =& RHS2 \\
...
\end{align}

it generates a wrong spacing. Instead use it in the form

\begin{align}
LHS1 &= RHS1 \\
LHS2 &= RHS2 \\
...
\end{align}

13. The reason of warnings of the kind

Package amsmath Warning: Foreign command \over;
(amsmath) \frac or \genfrac should be used instead
(amsmath) on input line 150.

is that, in AmS-LaTeX, one should use

\frac {numerator} {denominator}

{numerator \over denominator} ,

respectively

\binom {upper} {lower}

{upper \choose lower} ,

respectively

\begin{bmatrix} upper \\ lower \end{bmatrix}