diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
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+The MIT License (MIT)
+
+Copyright (c) 2015 
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
+of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
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+
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+
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+
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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+# Tutorials
+Author tools for AAS Journals.
+
+``figureset:`` Python script to write out the AASTeX 6 Figure Set markup for online (HTML) figures.
diff --git a/figureset/README.md b/figureset/README.md
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+
+
diff --git a/figureset/figure1set.tex b/figureset/figure1set.tex
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+\figsetstart
+\figsetnum{1}
+\figsettitle{Young Stellar Object Scrapbook}
+
+\figsetgrpstart
+\figsetgrpnum{1.1}
+\figsetgrptitle{LkHa823}
+\figsetplot{protostar1.pdf}
+\figsetgrpnote{LkHa823 is a Class III object and displays forbidden lines, Halpha in emission.}
+\figsetgrpend
+
+\figsetgrpstart
+\figsetgrpnum{1.2}
+\figsetgrptitle{Ori32-5}
+\figsetplot{protostar2a.pdf}
+\figsetplot{protostar2b.pdf}
+\figsetgrpnote{Ori32-5 is a Class II object and is completely featureless.}
+\figsetgrpend
+
+\figsetgrpstart
+\figsetgrpnum{1.3}
+\figsetgrptitle{1}
+\figsetplot{fig1.ps}
+\figsetgrpnote{}
+\figsetgrpend
+
+\figsetgrpstart
+\figsetgrpnum{1.4}
+\figsetgrptitle{2}
+\figsetplot{fig2.ps}
+\figsetgrpnote{}
+\figsetgrpend
+
+\figsetgrpstart
+\figsetgrpnum{1.5}
+\figsetgrptitle{3}
+\figsetplot{fig3.ps}
+\figsetgrpnote{}
+\figsetgrpend
+
+\figsetgrpstart
+\figsetgrpnum{1.6}
+\figsetgrptitle{4}
+\figsetplot{fig4.ps}
+\figsetgrpnote{}
+\figsetgrpend
+
+\figsetgrpstart
+\figsetgrpnum{1.7}
+\figsetgrptitle{5}
+\figsetplot{fig5a.ps}
+\figsetplot{fig5b.ps}
+\figsetplot{fig5c.ps}
+\figsetgrpnote{}
+\figsetgrpend
+
+\figsetend
diff --git a/figureset/make_translation.sh b/figureset/make_translation.sh
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+# example script to turn datatable into translation table
+grep JW datafile1.txt | awk '{print$1".pdf,"$1","$7"\n"$1"rgb.pdf,"$1","$7}' >| translation.csv
diff --git a/figureset/newfigureset.py b/figureset/newfigureset.py
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+
+# coding: utf-8
+import sys
+import csv, yaml
+
+
+# import yaml config
+with open(sys.argv[1], "r") as stream:
+    y = yaml.load(stream)
+
+# open translation table
+t = []
+with open(y['translationfile'], "r") as tfile:
+    treader = csv.reader(tfile)
+    for row in treader:
+        t.append(row)
+
+# pad table rows to same length with strings
+lt = max([len(row) for row in t])
+
+markup = []
+markup.append("\\figsetstart")
+markup.append("\\figsetnum{{{0}}}".format(y['fignum']))
+markup.append("\\figsettitle{{{0}}}".format(y['settitle']))
+markup.append("")
+
+ft = []
+fn = 1
+for i, row in enumerate(t):
+    if row[1] == ft:
+        markup.insert(len(markup)-3, "\\figsetplot{{{0}}}".format(row[0]))
+    else:
+        if len(row) < lt:
+          row.extend((lt - len(row)) * [""])
+          caption = ""
+        else:
+          caption = y['caption'].strip("\n")
+        markup.append("\\figsetgrpstart")
+        markup.append("\\figsetgrpnum{{{0}.{1}}}".format(y['fignum'], fn))
+        markup.append("\\figsetgrptitle{{{0}}}".format(row[1]))
+        markup.append("\\figsetplot{{{0}}}".format(row[0]))
+        markup.append("\\figsetgrpnote{{{0}}}".format(caption.format(*row)))
+        markup.append("\\figsetgrpend")
+        markup.append("")
+        fn = fn + 1
+    ft = row[1]
+    
+markup.append("\\figsetend")
+
+# write out
+with open('figure{0}set.tex'.format(y['fignum']), mode='w', encoding='utf-8') as ofile:
+    ofile.write('\n'.join(markup))
+    ofile.write('\n')
+        
+        
+
diff --git a/figureset/translation.csv b/figureset/translation.csv
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+protostar1.pdf,LkHa823,III,"displays forbidden lines, Halpha in emission."
+protostar2a.pdf,Ori32-5,II,"is completely featureless."
+protostar2b.pdf,Ori32-5,II
+fig1.ps,1
+fig2.ps,2
+fig3.ps,3
+fig4.ps,4
+fig5a.ps,5
+fig5b.ps,5
+fig5c.ps,5
diff --git a/figureset/translation.yaml b/figureset/translation.yaml
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+---
+# yaml configuration file for newfigureset.py
+#
+# the required elements are:
+#
+# fignum: The figure number of the figure set. 
+# setttitle: The title for the figure set
+# translationfile: A comma delimited translation table (see below)
+# caption: A caption string for the set.
+#
+# The csv translation file must contain a list of files and figure titles, 
+# one on each row, along with an optional list of attributes for each row:
+#
+#    filename, figure title [, attribute1, attribute2...attributeN]
+#
+#, e.g., 
+#
+#    protostar1.pdf,LkHa823,III,"displays forbidden lines, Halpha in emission."
+#    protostar2a.pdf,Ori32-5,II,"is completely featureless."
+#    protostar2b.pdf,Ori32-5,II
+# 
+# to assign multiple figure files to a single figure in the set, give them the 
+# same figure title, e.g., Ori32-5 above.
+#
+# the caption string below can be written to map attributes of each row in the 
+# csv file as string elements of the caption. Given the example above a caption
+# string of 
+#
+# caption: {1} is a Class {2} object and {3}
+#
+# would write captions of
+#
+# LkHa823 is a Class III object and displays forbidden lines, Halpha in emission.
+# Ori32-5 is a Class II object and is completely featureless.
+#
+fignum: 1
+settitle: Young Stellar Object Scrapbook
+translationfile: "translation.csv"
+caption: >
+     {1} is a Class {2} object and {3}
+...