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Style information

Version: 2.5 - Scientific WorkPlace & Scientific Word

NoteFor more recent information:

New and updated styles are available on our ftp site. You can download them from the site and move them to your SW directory, then use them to create your SW documents.

Below, we briefly describe each new and updated style. For each, we indicate

  • Style Editor or non-Style Editor style
  • The document type (article, book, memo, etc.) and style name as it will be listed in SW
  • The institution or journal, if any, providing the guidelines we followed to create the style
  • The primary features of the style
  • Sample pages
  • The names of the style files you must download and their destination subdirectories in SW
  • Links to the style files on ftp site

New Style Files

Updated Style Files


Article styles

Journal of the American Statistical Association Style

Style type: Non-Style Editor style

Document type: Math Article

Created for: The Journal of the American Statistical Association

Created by: Curtis Caldwell

Primary features:

Sample pages:

Style files available on our ftp site:

File name Download and move to this subdirectory:
AMSTATDR.STY \tex\macros
AMSTATDR.DVI \styles\samples
AMSTATDR.TEX \styles\samples
AMSTATDR.SHL \styles
AMSTATDR.TXT \styles

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Style Editor Article Style

Updated: June 19, 1996

Style type: Style Editor style

Document type: Article

Created for:

Created by:

Improvements and Corrections:

  • Appearance of list numbering has been improved.
  • Initial values for List of Figures and List of Tables are preset.
  • Appearance of Table of Contents has been improved.
  • Bibliography, indexes, and appendixes are properly formatted.
  • Lists of Figures and Lists of Tables work correctly.
  • Justification has been repaired.
  • Cross-references to list items now appear correctly in preview and printed versions.
  • Cross-references to unnumbered sections have been removed.
  • Text tags that refer to font sizes now appear in the Text Tags list.
  • Defaults are set to save the .cst and .shl files for documents created with the style.

Sample pages:

Style files available on our ftp site:

File name Download and move to this subdirectory:
SEART.STY \tex\macros\styledit
SEART.CST \styles
SEART.SHL \styles
SEART.DVI \styles\samples
SEART.TEX \styles\samples

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The American Statistician

Style type: Non-Style Editor style

Document type: Math Article

Created for: The American Statistician

Created by: Curtis Caldwell

Primary features:

Sample pages:

Style files available on our ftp site:

File name Download and move to this subdirectory:
AMSTATIS.STY \tex\macros
AMSTATIS.DVI \styles\samples
AMSTATIS.TEX \styles\samples
AMSTATIS.SHL \styles
AMSTATIS.TXT \styles

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Book styles

AMS Style Editor Book Style

Style type: Style Editor style

Document type: Book

Created by: Oliver Johns

Primary features:

  • Includes a revised version of sebase.cls, which must be downloaded with the style.
  • Adapted from amsmath.sty for use with the SW Style Editor.
  • All standard AMS equation environments (align, gather, etc.) are available.
  • amsmath.sty is loaded automatically.
  • User-defined Inline Elements can now appear in running headers and footers.
  • Mathletters are integrated correctly with AMS and LaTeX equation constructs.

Sample pages:

Style files available on our ftp site:

File name Download and move to this subdirectory:
SEBKAM1.STY \tex\macros\styledit
SEBKAM1.DVI \styles\samples
SEBKAM1.TEX \styles\samples
SEBKAM1.SHL \styles
SEBKAM1.CST \styles

Special instructions:

After downloading the files associated with this style, you must also complete these steps:

  1. From the Windows File Manager or Explorer, rename the sebase.cls file in the SW tex\macros\styledit subdirectory to sebase.old .
  2. Download the file sebase.cls to your SW tex\macros\styledit subdirectory.
  3. Download the file sebase.txt to any directory on your system, then read the file.
  4. Download the file sebkam1.txt to any directory on your system, then read the file.

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Exam styles

Jeannine Exam

Style type: Style Editor style

Document type: Exam

Created by: TCI Software Research

Primary features:

  • Easy Style.
  • Answer boxes for questions are built in.
  • Multicolumn format.
  • Graph grid included.

Sample pages:

Style files available on our ftp site:

File name Download and move to this subdirectory:
JEANEXM.STY \tex\macros\styledit
JEANEXM.DVI \styles\samples
JEANEXM.TEX \styles\samples
JEANEXM.SHL \styles
JEANEXM.CST \styles

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Report styles

2.5 Style Editor Report Style

Style type: 2.5 Style Editor Report Style

Document type: Report

Created by: TCI Software Research

Improvements and Corrections:

  • Lists of Figures and Lists of Tables work correctly.
  • Left, right, centered and full justification has been repaired.
  • Section and list references appear properly.
  • Cross-references to unnumbered sections have been removed.
  • Initial values for List of Figures and List of Tables are preset.
  • Appearance of list numbering has been improved.
  • Appearance of Table of Contents has been improved.
  • Bibliography, indexes, and appendixes are properly formatted.

Sample pages:

Style files available on our ftp site:

File name Download and move to this subdirectory:
serep1.sty \tex\macros\styledit
serep1.cst \styles
serep1.shl \styles
serep1.dvi \styles\samples
serep1.tex \styles\samples

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Thesis styles

University of Iowa Thesis Style

Style type: Style Editor Style

Document type: Thesis

Created for: University of Iowa Mathematics Department, according to the Thesis Manual of the Graduate College

Created by: TCI Software Research

Primary features:

  • 12 pt sans serif font
  • Margins:
    • Left - 1.5 in. on all pages
    • Right - 1.0 in. on all pages
    • Top - 2.0 in. on heading pages, 1.25 in. elsewhere
    • Bottom - 1.25 in. on all pages
  • Lowercase roman page numbers for front matter, arabic elsewhere
  • Many exceptional pages:
    • Doctoral abstract title page
    • Doctoral abstract
    • Thesis title page
    • Copyright page
    • Certificate of approval
    • Dedication
    • Epigraph
    • Acknowledgements
    • Abstract
    • Table of contents
    • List of figures
    • List of tables
    • List of symbols and abbreviations
    • Preface

Sample pages:

Style files available on our ftp site:

File name Download and move to this subdirectory:
sw25uoi.sty \tex\macros\styledit
sw25uoi.dvi \styles\samples
sw25uoi.tex \styles\samples
sw25uoi.shl \styles
sw25uoi.cst \styles

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Support files

SEBASE.CLS

Style type: .cls file

The .cls file defines the minimum set of information required for all Style Editor styles. Any particular style is further defined by the information contained in the document class, .sty file, and packages associated with the style.

Created by: TCI Software Research

Improvements and Corrections:

  • Footnotes in the front matter preview and print correctly.
  • Cross-references for theorems appear correctly.

Style files available on our ftp site:

File name Download and move to this subdirectory:
sebase.cls \tex\macros\styledit

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Last revised 06/12/06

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