September 17, 2014


IEEEtran is a LaTeX class for authors of the Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers (IEEE) transactions journals and conferences.
The latest version of the IEEEtran package can be found at CTAN:

http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/IEEEtran/

as well as within IEEE's site:

http://www.ieee.org/

For latest news, helpful tips, answers to frequently asked questions,
beta releases and other support, visit the IEEEtran home page at my
website:

http://www.michaelshell.org/tex/ieeetran/

Version 1.8a has a number of significant changes over the v1.8 release.
For a full list of changes, please read the file changelog.txt. The most
notable changes include:


 1) Extensive rework of the compsoc mode to comply with the latest standards
    of the IEEE Computer Society.

 2) Fixed abstract, index terms and diamond line for compsoc technotes.

 3) New \IEEEraisesectionheading{} command to provide for the special
    raised first section heading of Computer Society journal papers.

 4) Internal code improvements for page setup and command argument
    processing.


Best wishes for all your publication endeavors,

Michael Shell
http://www.michaelshell.org/


***************************** Subdirectories ******************************

bibtex   - The IEEEtran BibTeX style package.

extras   - Supplementary material that may be of interest.

testflow - The testflow diagnostic suite for verifying PS/PDF output.

tools    - The IEEEtrantools.sty package which provides several commands
           from the IEEEtran.cls file for use with other LaTeX classes.


********************************** Files **********************************

README                 - This file.

IEEEtran.cls           - The IEEEtran LaTeX class file.

changelog.txt          - The revision history.

IEEEtran_HOWTO.pdf     - The IEEEtran LaTeX class user manual.

bare_conf.tex          - A bare bones starter file for conference papers.

bare_conf_compsoc.tex  - A bare bones starter file for Computer Society
                         conference papers.

bare_jrnl.tex          - A bare bones starter file for journal papers.

bare_jrnl_compsoc.tex  - A bare bones starter file for Computer Society
                         journal papers.

bare_jrnl_transmag.tex - A bare bones starter file for IEEE Transactions
                         on Magnetics journal papers.

bare_adv.tex           - A bare bones starter file showing advanced
                         techniques such as conditional compilation,
                         hyperlinks, PDF thumbnails, etc. The illustrated
                         format is for a Computer Society journal paper.

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File list of work: IEEEtran.cls, IEEEtran_HOWTO.pdf, bare_adv.tex,
                   bare_conf.tex, bare_conf_compsoc.tex, bare_jrnl.tex,
                   bare_jrnl_compsoc.tex, bare_jrnl_transmag.tex
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