Re: [jats-list] Computer algorithms

Subject: Re: [jats-list] Computer algorithms
From: "Alexander Schwarzman aschwarzman@xxxxxxxxx" <jats-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 16:11:59 -0000
Debbie wrote:
> I had assumed that (like <preformat> as was suggested by
> Daniel ObBrien) that algorithms were monospaced, and
> that would take care of the alignment. Are OSA (and Marybs)
> algorithms in a proportional font?

It's not so much that; it's that, as Mirco has pointed out, algorithms
are not just pure code. I don't know, for example, how to indicate
shading or color in <code> or <preformat>, and it's a pain to put
MathML or TeX in there. Either <fig>, as Nikos has suggested, or
<table-wrap>, as we do, alleviates some of these problems. See, e.g.,
https://doi.org/10.1364/BOE.9.001423,  Algorithms 1--4.

Alexander ('Sasha') Schwarzman, Content Technology Architect

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The Optical Society (OSA)
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On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 11:48 AM, Mirko Janc mjanc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<jats-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Formatting of algorithms, especially of pseudo-code, is not properly
> addressed in JATS. In several of our 16 journals at INFORMS (Institute for
> Operations Research and the Management Sciences), we have many algorithms.
> Many of therm are not pure code, so monospaced font is not an option.
> Authors use bold for reserved words, and very often have quite heavy math
> expressions in some of the lines. In addition, many require numbers in
front
> of the "code" lines, use vertical "sidebars" to group subroutines, and
flush
> right fragments as comments. We are getting around only by creating them as
> images from what was typeset.
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> I think this is quite a topics to be discussed and elaborated. Thanks,
Mary,
> for raising it.
>
> Dr. Mirko Janc
> Chief Publishing Technologist
> INFORMS
> mjanc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, mirko.janc@xxxxxxxxx
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