The spaper Document Type

An spaper document is constructed from a head and body, with the following elements permitted in the head:

<author>

the author(s). If there are multiple authors, they should be separated with semicolons. After the name of an author, an optional affiliation or address can be supplied by using the `<address>' tag. In this case it is a good idea to also tag the `<name>'. See section Addresses for more information on the address tag. Some examples:

<author>B. L. User

<author>B. L. User;
J. R. Hacker

<author><name>B. L. User<address>c/o TUG; P.O. Box 869;
Santa Barbara,;
CA 93102-0869 U.S.A.
<name>J. R. Hacker<address>c/o president@whitehouse.gov

Occasionally there is more than one author with a single address: this can be coded as:

<author><name>Jack<address id=hill>Below the hill with water
<name address=hill>Jill

<title>

the title line(s): compulsory. Multiple lines should be separated with semicolons.

<abstract>

the abstract. This can consist of a number of paragraphs, each separated by a blank line. The end of the abstract is marked either by another head tag or by an explicit `</abstract>' tag (this is necessary if the abstract is the last item in the head).

<copyrite>

copyright information. This can consist of a number of paragraphs, each separated by a blank line. The end of the copyright information is marked either by another head tag or by an explicit `</copyrite>' tag. Within the copyright information it is possible to mark text which should be omitted from a printed version of the document by surrounding it with `<noprint> </noprint>' tags (although a formatter will not necessarily be able to do anything useful with this information).

<date>

an explicit date. If omitted the formatter will use the current date whenever the document is processed.

<docnum>

probably the name of the file

<toc>

generate a table of contents

<figlist>

generate a list of figures

The author and title elements may contain embedded short quotations or highlighted phrases (section Short Quotations and section Highlighted Phrases). The abstract and copyrite elements can contain all this and much more (anything that can be put in a paragraph).

The head of the paper is terminated by a blank line.