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Your contribution should be no more than the equivalent of
six to eight pages of 10-12 point type on A4 paper (including diagrams,
appendices and references). Since we are asking you to provide
both electronic and paper versions of your contribution it
should be easy for you to judge the correct length.
In electronic form the text will flow continuously as a single
column. There are no page breaks. However, from the reader's
point of view it is helpful to have the text broken up into
sections, as has been done with the page you are now reading.
You should make use of headings and subheadings
throughout the text to guide the reader through smoothly.
The www format is a hypertext medium, enabling you to make
easy cross-references within your article. Using this facility
sparingly might enhance its value to readers, but be
careful how you organise your referencing.
We do not expect contributors to be experts at HTML markup!
For this reason we are asking you to send in your article in
two or three versions:
- on paper, giving some indication of how you would
like the article to look;
- on a diskette (or via email, but not encoded) in plain ASCII form.
This will be the basis of our final markup - so it is
essential that this version be correct in all respects.
and thirdly, if you want to try it (but it's not essential!)
- on a diskette (or via email) marked up in HTML. This
will give us an idea of how you see your article in the
www medium.
Diskettes must be to MS-DOS or Unix standards and of the
usual 1.4Mbyte capacity.
After the review process and any necessary revisions we shall
adapt your layouts into WEB-SLS house style. You will receive
an electronic proof marked up in HTML 3.0 for you to view and
return comments and corrections. The final layout, however,
will necessarily be our decision, due the house
style and technical constraints.
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Eligibility
General
Text
Submission
Tables, Images and Sound
Tables and Images share the constraint that they are both very
limited as to how much information can be displayed in the
width of the browser window. You cannot expect users to have
high definition displays on which the browser window can be
significantly widened.
Here is a three line table, showing roughly the maximum
width you can display. It's a question of seeing whether you
can either scale down tables to this maximum or divide a
complex table into several smaller ones.
| sample |
data |
|---|
| plosive |
word | voiced |
stop duration |
VOT |
VOT duration |
vowel duration |
|---|
| p |
'dependent' |
no |
147ms |
yes |
57ms |
183ms |
| b |
'abbreviate' |
yes |
138ms |
no |
0ms |
214ms |
| t |
'deterrent' |
no |
143ms |
yes |
43ms |
175ms |
Similar problems of width arise with images. You should
keep in mind that the realistic maximum width of an image
is about 575 pixels. Here is an image of exactly 575 pixels
width, plus a suitable border (don't forget labels and
legends!):
Fig.17 Spectrograms of [pa] and [ba]. Time runs from left to right, and
approximately 0.4s is shown. The vertical axis is frequency, with markers
every 1kHz; 0Hz is at the bottom and 5kHz at the top of the graph.
This and the other images in this section are taken from the
Essex University Speech Group's Teaching Resource Website, and are
the copyright © of Kate Morton.
[Notice the copyright acknowledgement. You must include such acknowledgements
in your articles. See the General section above.]
The image above is 340 pixels in depth. Remember that to appreciate
your diagram, table or picture the viewer will want to see the entire image
on the screen at the same time, perhaps together with some text. In general
you should not exceed about 400 pixels for the depth of an image.
But what if your picture is wider than 575 pixels? In such cases the
image will go right off the window - necessitating scrolling,
and probably some loss of image and other anomalies with the rest
of the page - such pictures are quite unsuitable for a web page.
You might be tempted to scale your image, reducing its width to the
necessary 575 pixels:
Fig.26 Two typical waveforms of plosives followed by vowels.
But now essential detail has been lost; some vertical lines have
disappeared altogether as they scaled to less than one pixel wide!
The best thing to do is to break the original picture up into
several manageable ones, keeping any lettering bold and simple.
Fig.26a A typical waveform of a plosive followed by a vowel.
Of course, unlike most printed journals, you can use colour.
But, once again, be careful! Be sparing in the use of colour, and
do not assume that readers have displays on which more than 256
colours can be simultaneously shown.
Submit your pictures in electronic form. Most PC and Unix formats can be
converted by us for use on the web. If you have doubts then send an
email to Mark Tatham saying
what the problem is. If necessary you can send the picture on paper
to be scanned - but this method inevitably results in loss of quality.
Not just pictures and colour, but also sound!. A possibility
no paper journal has! You can use sound illustrations if you like.
Keep the examples short (large files take too long to download on
overused internet connections). Submit them in .au, .wav, and .aif
formats (for Unix, MS Windows and Macintosh). Here is a sentence
- You should always remember to speak each word separately - in
.au format, or in .wav format
, or in .aif format. Many readers will
not have the ability to play sounds yet. [You can even include brief
video clips in .avi format - but we're not particularly encouraging
this for the moment!]
Remember, again, the golden rule: keep your tables, diagrams, images
and soundfiles to a minimum and keep them small. Their impact will
be all the greater on the viewer/listener if they are used sparingly.
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Eligibility
General
Text
Tables, Images and Sound
Submission
- Submissions of articles for consideration for publication in
WEB-SLSshould be sent to the Editor both on paper and
in electronic form (see above).
- Submissions should be accompanied by a letter of endorsement
from a supervisor - including a statement from him/her that all
copyright permissions have been sought and obtained.
- You should provide an ordinary mailing address, an email
address and a telephone number for both you and your
supervisor so that we can consult if necessary.
We look forward to receiving your submission!
The Board of Editors
May 1996 Last update: 5th May 1996
Comments on layout or difficulties with displaying
WEB-SLS, please email
Mark Tatham, Technical and Publishing Editor
