Preparing Articles

• Conferences are different in style from "journals". They are at their most exciting when the topic is posed in as controversial a style as possible. The X-ray structure of a complex natural product is death to an electronic conference - as is a total synthesis unless it raises some important principle.
• The primary preferred format was Hypertext-Markup-Language (HTML).
• Contributions were prepared using a specific HTML authoring program. A number of suitable programs are indicated on the programs page.
• Alternatively, use a word processor such as Microsoft Word 6, WordPerfect, Claris Works or AMI Pro capable of saving in "HTML" format (via plug-ins such as Internet Assistant) or in "Rich-Text-Format" format, which itself can be converted to HTML.
• Programs and utilities for helping to prepare articles are collected here.
• The secondary preferred format is as a native Word 6 file, which were converted to HTML by the conference editors. If at all possible, graphical images should be saved as separate files, in "GIF", "TIFF", "JPG", "PICT" or "PNG", format as well as being included in the body of the document to indicate placement.
• Detailed instructions for authers are to be found here.

Submitting Articles

1. By mounting the HTML document(s) on a World-Wide Web server located at the author's own institution and submitting the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) of this material by using this form or by sending an e-mail message to echet96-contrib@ic.ac.uk.
2. By creating a single "archive" file of the HTML file(s) and any associated graphical images and molecular coordinates in "Stuffit", "ZIP" or "Tar" formats and sending this file using the electronic form provided if you are using Netscape 2.0, or sending an an electronic mail message to echet96-contrib@ic.ac.uk. NOTE: Please give your archive a distinctive name. Naming it simply ECHET96.SEA will not render it unique once it arrives!
3. By "attaching" a binary Word Processor file to an electronic mail message sent to echet96-contrib@ic.ac.uk. The binary file should be "uuencoded" (Windows) or "binhex"ed (Macintosh). A suitable program which can perform this encoding automatically is Eudora.
4. Anonymous ftp binary file transfer of a Word Processor file or "archive" file as defined above, to the server ftp.ch.ic.ac.uk, to be placed in the directory echet96.
5. Paper submissions were NOT acceptable. Floppy disk submission was accepted if all other methods failed (1 example only).