In order to ensure the smoothest transition for both authors and publishers, Springer-Verlag has kindly granted EDP Sciences the permission to use the LaTeX macro package that they developed for A&A Main journal.

Only minor changes have been incorporated between the Springer class (1999) and the version 5.02 (june 2000) for the new journal.
Please, note:
- that the abstract is now a command (\abstract{...}) and not an environment, so the \maketitle command has to be placed after the abstract and the keywords
- that the only needed fonts are Computer Modern Font (LaTeX standart fonts)
- and that the command \thesaurus does no longer exist.

The differences between the 5.02 version and the 5.1 (september 2001) version are listed here: - the date of the proof version is added at the top of the first page for the authors - the top margin changed - it's possible now to have more than one paragraph in the \abstract{} command - a command \headnote{} exists now to write the subtitle Research Note (see the documentation) - a "onecolumn" option has been added, reserved for papers with large Mathematical formulae (see the documentation) - to perform the compatibility with Natbib and BibTeX, the list of journals has been added in the class (\aj, \arra, \apj ...) - and a aa.bst (fully conform of A&A bibliography style) is now distributed.

The following files are part of the macro package AA

• readme.txt: Information (equivalent to this page)

• aa.cls: The document class file

• aadoc.dvi: User's Guide (dvi)

• aadoc.pdf: User's Guide (pdf)

• aadoc.ps: User's Guide (ps)

• aa.dem: Example of an article (LaTeX source)

  • Directory for BIBTeX style

  • aa.bst: Bibliography style file

  • natbib.sty: This package reimplements the LaTeX \cite command

  • natnotes.dvi: Brief reference sheet for Natbib (dvi)

  • natnotes.pdf: Brief reference sheet for Natbib (pdf)

  • natnotes.ps: Brief reference sheet for Natbib (ps)