Formatting IEEE papers in MS-Word is cumbersome. So here I briefs my experience with writing an IEEE journal using latex. I am working in Ubuntu(10.04). So the procedure starting from installation is given below.
- Install complete latex package sudo apt-get install texlive-full
- Install geany editor ( here I used geany editor you can use any like gedit or even vim) sudo apt-get install geany ; not necessary.
- Go to http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/IEEEtran/ and download IEEEtran.cls and bare_jrnl.tex (here I am writing a journal so I used bare_jrnl.tex). Put these two files in a folder.
- Open a terminal and go to the folder (cd). Then run pdflatex bare_jrnl.tex . It will generate bare_jrnl.pdf .
- Click here for a template which I have been working. You can download and customize this for learning.
- Then open a terminal and go to that folder and run make . Four pdfs will get generated. If you want to clean the made files run make clean .