Papers are formatted using reStructuredText and the compiled version should be no longer than 7 pages, including figures. Here are the steps to produce a paper:

• Fork the 2012 branch of the scipy_proceedings <https://github.com/scipy/scipy_proceedings>__ repository on GitHub.

• Check out the 2012 branch (git checkout 2012).

• An example paper is provided in papers/00_vanderwalt. Create a new directory papers/firstname_surname, copy the example paper into it, and modify to your liking.

• Run ./make_paper.sh papers/firstname_surname to compile your paper to PDF (requires LaTeX, docutils, Python--see below). The output appears in output/firstname_surname/paper.pdf.

• Once you are ready to submit your paper, file a pull request on GitHub. Please ensure that you file against the correct branch--your branch should be named 2012, and the pull-request should be against our 2012 branch.

• Please do not modify any files outside of your paper directory.

Pull requests are to be submitted by July 15th, but modifications may be pushed until August 12th.

General Guidelines

- All figures and tables should have captions.
- License conditions on images and figures must be respected (Creative Commons,
  etc.).
- Code snippets should be formatted to fit inside a single column without
  overflow.
- Avoid custom LaTeX markup where possible.

Other markup
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Please refer to the example paper in ``papers/00_vanderwalt`` for
examples of how to:

 - Label figures, equations and tables
 - Use math markup
 - Include code snippets

Requirements
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 - IEEETran and AMSmath LaTeX classes
 - `docutils` 0.8 or later
 - `pygments` for code highlighting