Quick start for modern LaTeXing with LNCS.
To build the whole document, execute following command. Note that this requires a working perl installation.
latexmk paper
In case something goes wrong, you can instruct the LaTeX compiler to stop at the first error:
pdflatex paper
Following features are enabled in this template:
- Provides a skeletal paper.tex file
- Example to have an image being placed right to a text
- Automatic setting of "Fig." and "Section"/"Sect." according to the LNCS style.
Just use
\Cref{sec:xy}
at the beginning of a sentence and\cref{sec:xy}
in the middle of a sentence. Thanx to cleveref. - Sharper font (still compatible with Springer's requirements).
- (Optional) Typesetting of listings using advanced highlighting powered by the minted package.
- Generated PDF allows for copy and paste of text without getting words with ligatures such as "workflow" destroyed.
This is enabled by
glyphtounicode
, which encodes ligatures (such as fl) using unicode characters. - Support of hyperlinked references without extra color thanx to hyperref.
- Better breaking of long URLs.
- Support for
\powerset
command. - (Optional) Support todos as pdf annotations. This is enabled by the pdfcomment package.
- microtypographic extensions for a better look of the paper.
- Modern packages such as microtype, cleveref, csquotes, hyperref, hypcap, upquote, natbib, booktabs.
- (Optional) LaTeX compilation using the modern lualatex compiler.
- Ready-to-go configuration for latexindent.
Following features were not activated for this template. You can run the latex template generator to enable the features.
Hints on writing an abstract and thesis by Dirk Fahland.
- paper.pdf - normal paper.
- paper-minted.pdf - paper showing minted in action.
- paper-newtx.pdf - paper typeset in Times Roman to save some space.
- paper-minted-newtx.pdf - paper typeset in Times Roman to save some space.
The official template is available at https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines --> "Templates, samples files & useful links" --> "LaTeX2e Proceedings Templates (zip)"
- Click on
Download ZIP
or here. - Extract
LNCS-main.zip
in the folder where you want to write your paper. - Edit paper.tex.
latexmk paper
.
When using on overleaf, you have to switch Overleaf to use TeXLive 2022 (or later).
As you see on GitHub actions, the paper compiles out of the box. There is no need to adjust the packages or to remove some of them. This might lead to undesiered results such as hyperlinks not working any more or no good microtypographic features. In case you think, a package needs to be altered or added, feel free to open an issue.
There is currently no official biblatex support. A first step towards that is done at biblatex-lncs.
MiKTeX installation hints are given at http:https://latextemplates.github.io/scientific-thesis-template/#installation-hints-for-windows.
- Grammar and spell checking is available at TeXstudio.
Please download LanguageTool (Windows:
choco install languagetool
) and configure TeXstudio to use it. Note that it is enough to point tolanguagetool.jar
. If TeXstudio doesn't fit your need, check the list of all available LaTeX Editors. - Use JabRef to manage your bibliography (Windows:
choco install jabref
).
To have minted running properly, you have to do following steps on Windows:
- Install python:
choco install python
- that uses chocolatey to install Python - Install pygments:
pip instal pygments
- that uses the Pyhton package manager to install the pygments library - When latexing, use
-shell-escape
:pdflatex -shell-escape paper
. You can also just executelatexmk paper
.
The generated Dockerfile
is based on the Dockerfile by reitzig.
The idea of that system is to host the document sources in a directory separated from the output directory.
docker run --rm -v "c:\users\example\latex-document:/work/src" -v "c:\users\example\latex-document\out:/work/out" ltg work latexmk
Following one-time setup is requried:
docker build -t ltg .
ShareLaTeX might output following warning:
LaTeX Warning: You have requested, on input line 8, version 2018/03/10' of document class llncs, but only version 2004/08/17 v2.14 LaTeX document class for Lecture Notes in Computer Science' is available.
The reason is that you did not use llncs.cls
(included in your LaTeX distribution).
Please remove the file and update your LaTeX distribution.
- Initialize your git repository as usual
- Add this repository as upstream:
git remote add upstream https://github.com/latextemplates/LNCS.git
- Merge the branch
upstream/main
into yourmain
branch:git merge upstream/main
.
After that you can use and push the main
branch as usual.
Notes on syncing with the upstream repository are available from GitHub.
Q: I get the error ! pdfTeX error (font expansion): auto expansion is only possible with scalable fonts.
Install the cm-super
package using the MiKTeX package manager. Then, run initexmf --mkmaps
on the command line. (Long description: https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/324972/9075)
A: You have activated \MakeOuterQuote{"}
and used some special babel command to allow hyphenation at other places as a dash. One example is writing application"=specific
.
Now, you have to decide whether you want keep using plain quotes to enquote a word or use the special hyphenation command.
In other words: Do you want "quote"
and app\-lication\-specific
or \enquote{quote} and application"=specific
?
Note that this should not happen when the template is generated as the setting tweakouterquote
ensures that these two options are mutually exclusive.
The most simple solution to get more space is to exchange the font.
Execute following command:
latexindent -l -s -sl -w paper.tex
Execute following command:
latexindent -m -l -s -sl -w paper.tex
Attention! This is work in progress and does not always produce best results.
Q: Is it possible to have a footer indicating that the paper is intended to be submitted/submitted/published?
Activate the llncsconf
package.
The possible options are listed in paper.tex
.
Yes. You can regenerate the template and choose "German" as language.
- tex.stackexchange.com questions regarding LNCS: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lncs
- Original LNCS demonstration (without the improvements): llncs-dem.pdf
- Original LNCS documentation (without the improvements): llncs-doc.pdf
- Other templates: https://latextemplates.github.io/