Abstract
In 2016 the American Astronomical Society (AAS) released two new versions of its LaTeX classfile, AASTeX. These were the first changes in over 11 years and included many new features to enhance an author’s ability to present their science in a format conducive to publishing in the AAS environment. While LaTeX is an excellent way to convey the written word, it lacks robust support for many desirable features including collaborative editing, large table support and figure interactivity. Bridging the gap between the old methods of writing and reviewing a printed manuscript and the new features the AAS has available and is working on implementing in a published HTML article is an ongoing challenge. This talk will highlight the new features of AASTeX and discuss how AAS publishing will move forward.
Highlights
LaTeX is a programming language for manuscript typesetting that is well suited to displaying mathematics, making it a natural fit for astronomy and astrophysics articles
Bridging the gap between the old methods of writing and reviewing a printed manuscript and the new features the Astronomical Society (AAS) has available and is working on implementing in a published HTML article is an ongoing challenge. This talk will highlight the new features of AASTeX and discuss how AAS publishing will move forward
Authors have more ways to provide access to the data used in their articles. Since these attributes only appear in the final HTML article it is challenging to present these items with only LaTeX manuscript to collaborators when composing the paper and to the science editor and reviewer during peer review
Summary
LaTeX is a programming language for manuscript typesetting that is well suited to displaying mathematics, making it a natural fit for astronomy and astrophysics articles. During the 1990s many additional versions were created both by the AAS and third parties These LaTeX upgrades were coincident with the AAS’s first electronic HTML journals in the mid 1990s. The AAS Journals offer many different data and narrative options. These distinctive HTML features give authors much more flexibility to control the narrative when describing their results. The latter portion of this article describes the available HTML only attributes and ends with a discussion on where the AAS publishing will go in the future
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