Student Conference: Downloads, fall 2013

Lecture overheads

Lecture 1 (PDF-format).
Lecture 2 (PDF-format).
The "Running LaTeX" OH

Example proceedings from old course offerings

2007 (PDF-format, 12MB)
2008 (PDF-format, 7,6MB)
2009 (PDF-format, 3,9MB)

Formatting of deliverables

All deliverables, except deliverable 1, must be formatted according to the guidelines from the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), available from Springer Verlag.

For your convenience, we have prepared a zip-file with all necessary files you need to produce the required deliverables. Please do not make any changes to the provided .cls and .bst files, since this can cause problems when we put together all papers to produce the conference proceedings.

Among other things, this zip-file contains an example outline and annotated bibliography produced with pdflatex. It contains examples for a main tex file (demo.tex), a figure (UMLdiagram.pdf), a bibliography file with annotations (demo.bib) and the bibliography style file plain-annote.bst to generate the annotated bibliography. You will also find the file demo.pdf showing the result you should get, when setting everything up correctly.

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Those of you, who insist to use plain LaTeX, we recommend the usage of pslatex, since that will result in better font compatibility. You will also have to replace our example figures, since they will not work together with plain LaTeX. However, you can download the zip-file typeinst.zip from Springer (see link above), which contains a more complex example.

LaTeX and BibTeX resources

Software for many different platforms is available at CTAN (ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/).

LaTeX systems are installed on all UNIX/Linux/Solaris systems.

For Windows, we recommend miktex together with a suitable editor, for example WinShell or TeXnicCenter (can all be found in CTAN catalogue ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/systems/win32. Miktex is installed on our Windows systems.

For MacOs users, we recommend TeXShop.

In the CTAN archives, you can also find tutorials and introductions to LaTeX and BibTeX. The following ones are very useful:

The summary of BibTeX entry and field types, by Andrew Roberts is a good and short reference to the BibTeX format
The very short guide to typesetting with LaTeX, by Silmaril Consultants is an excellent and very short reference to important LaTeX stuff
The documents The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX 2e, by Tobias Oetiker et al. and A beginner's introduction to typesetting with LaTeX, by Peter Flynn are very good more comprehensive introductions to LaTeX

There is also an WYSIWYG editor (almost) for LaTeX called LyX. It can be downloaded from http://www.lyx.org. We have not checked if LyX works well together with the LNCS style we require. So you have to use it on your own risk.