There are two subdirectories stored in the file

      ASPE_Abstracts_With_LaTeX.zip.

Use the files in the "StraightLaTeX" directory as a starting point if 
you do not have, nor want to use, a BibTeX database of literature 
references that you could draw upon.

Use the files in the "LaTeXBibTeX" directory as a starting point if 
you ahve and want to use a BibTeX database (or databases) to provide 
literature references to insert into your paper.

The sample files have been checked with the TrueTeX tool set coming 
with Scientific Word and Scientific Workplace (www.mackichan.com) on 
a MS Windows platform and one Unix/Linux based platform, and have 
been found to work well in either case.  This is of course not an 
exhaustive test, so you may possibly encounter a problem or two. 
Note that ASPE cannot help you there in any way, you should turn to 
your local TeX/LaTeX/BibTeX guru(s) instead.

Please remember that you need to pull the output files (.dvi or .ps) 
through a conversion to Adobe PDF format, and to include all font 
information in the process.

If the local system won't produce US Letter size at the LATeX level, 
and the dvipdfm tool is available (e.g., via the dvi2pdf button in 
WinEdt), find the configuration file for dvipdfm in 
[TEXMF]$\backslash$dvipdmf$\backslash$config or similar; in it edit a 
line that sets the default paper size.



If you are using LaTeX and BibTeX to prepare papers for the Precision 
Engineering journal, you can and should use the bibliography style 
file vancouverASPE.bst (or the general version vancouver.bst from 
www.cpan.org) in preparing your manuscript as it will satisfy the 
format requirements for the references, unlike the bibliography style 
files that Elsevier is offering on their website.


Hans-Jochen Trost
ASPE and MicroFab Technologies, Inc.
hans-jochen.trost@microfab.com

Last rev. 31 July 2007