Hello,
While translating sections 6.4 and 6.7 of the Additional manual (provided
together with the corresponding layouts by Martin Vermeer), I understood that
both sections are outdated:
* AGU (American Geophysical Union) published initially agutex.cls with a set
of ancillary .sty files (e.g. jgrga.sty) for the various journals published.
As this class missed several features, P. Daly from Max Planck Institut wrote
class aguplus.cls to enhance the original class, keeping the references to the
ancillary files.
Then AGU published an improved version of the same agutex.cls file which did not
need any more the ancillary files, jgrga becoming a simple option of the
agutex.cls file (this version of agutex.cls, dated Feb. 9, 2008 is the one
pointed to by the link in section 6.4 of Additional). This obsoleted aguplus as
e.g. jgrga.sty was no more available
Eventually AGU published in 2016 agujournal.cls, an up-to-date class for AGU
papers.
So in spite of the fact that the .sty files are not available any more, the LyX
template AGUTeX.lyx can still be compiled if the files in AGU-LaTeX.zip are
installed. The template correctly indicates that agujournal.cls should now be used.
* EGS became part of EGU (European Geosciences Union) in 2002, and the egs.cls
class has been obsolete for quite a time. It is replaced by copernicus.cls, a
class which allows to build any paper for the EGU.
What can we do about this ?
* the AGUTeX.lyx file should be moved to obsoleted templates;
* reference to aguplus in section 6.4 should be replaced by a short recall of
the agutex obsolete syntax, until a layout and hopefully template is created;
* section 6.7 should only mention the pending layout and hopefully template
for copernicus.cls.
Unless Martin has written layouts for the new classes, maybe we should look for
geophysicians to help us with the layouts and templates.
What do you think?
--
Jean-Pierre
