The LANL preprint archive is based, in the UK, at
<http://xxx.soton.ac.uk>
which is a mirror of the
master archive at
LANL. The archive is easy to use as a reader but not,
unfortunately, transparently easy to use as an author (not
helped by the rather snide error messages that come back if
you slip up...).
The full instructions are comprehensive, but boil down to the following:
.tar.gz
archive. The
automatic-processing software at LANL seems to LaTeX every
.tex
file in sight, so if your submission
isn't in the canonical format of one TeX file plus a bunch
of PostScript figures, you'd probably best read the
instructions one more time. It follows from this that it
doesn't matter what you call your TeX file: the processing
software will still TeX it.LANL has copies of
journal styles such as the A&A one -- when they
process your paper it'll be formatted according to that
style file. They suggest that the PostScript figures in
the article be numbered something like
figure1.ps
, figure2.ps
, so that
they alphabetise correctly. See Considerations
for TeX submissions for the gory
details.
<http://xxx.lanl.gov/uploads>
.