The LaTeX package `pazh2col' is intended to emulate the layout of "Pis'ma v Astronomicheskii Zhurnal".
It can be used with TeX-files typeset either with UTF8 or with KOI8-R font encoding.
Additional LaTeX class files are also provided, specific to a single cyrillic encoding at a choice:
    UTF8, KOI8-R, DOS, or Windows-1251.
Written by Alexander Potekhin (Ioffe Institute), 2023.
The last update: 19.11.2023.

License: LPPL = LaTeX Project Public License
Maintenance Status: maintained (by Alexander Potekhin <palex-spb@yandex.ru>)

If you think you may have found a bug in these packages,
or want to report a suggestion for improvement, please send an e-mail to
palex-spb@yandex.ru

The package contains:

pazh2col.cls - the LaTeX class file for use with either UTF8 or KOI8-R encodings;

pazh2col-utf.cls - an alternative LaTeX class file for use with UTF8 encoding only;

pazh2col-dos.cls - an alternative LaTeX class file for use with DOS (CP866) encoding;

pazh2col-win.cls - an alternative LaTeX class file for use with Windows (CP1251) encoding;

pazh2col_koi.tex - an example of use of pazh2col with KOI8-R encoding;

pazh2col_utf.tex - an example of use of pazh2col with UTF8 encoding;

pazh2col-utf-example.tex - an example of use of pazh2col-utf;

pazh2col-dos-example.tex - an example of use of pazh2col-dos;

pazh2col-win-example.tex - an example of use of pazh2col-win;

fig1exa.eps, fig2exa.eps, fig3exa.eps - simple figures, used in pazh2col*.tex examples;

pazh2col_styles.tar.gz - auxiliary archive (see below).

Certain standard LaTeX packages must be installed (are used by the pazh2col class).
They can be divided in the following two groups.

(1) The packages that allow handling of Cyrillic (Russian) encodings,
which are included in the base LaTeX distribution in all modern TeX implementations:

inputenc (https://ctan.org/pkg/inputenc),
fontenc (https://ctan.org/pkg/fontenc),
babel (https://ctan.org/pkg/babel).

(2) Five less common auxiliary packages for formatting, 
which may be missing in a base LaTeX distribution:

abstract (https://ctan.org/pkg/abstract) - allows an abstract spanning 2 columns;
caption (https://ctan.org/pkg/caption) - to format captions to figures and tables;
footmisc (https://ctan.org/pkg/footmisc) - to align footnotes at the left edge of text, as in the journal;
indentfirst (https://ctan.org/pkg/indentfirst) - for indentation of the first line in a section;
titlesec (https://ctan.org/pkg/titlesec) - for formatting figure and table captions in the journal's style.

(Some of the listed packages require package `keyval', which is part of the base LaTeX distribution.)

Normally all packages should be installed in a regular way from their distributions. 
However, for completeness, the style files from the latter (auxiliary) group are provided
in the archive pazh2col_styles.tar.gz.