LNCS Markdown

This are TeX and HTML templates as well as a CSS to render LNCS styled papers to PDF and HTML written in Markdown.

Currently only one author is supported.

Format

The papers source markdown file has to have a front-matter with this layout:

---
title: "My Title"
subtitle: "My Subtitle"
author: Maximilian Irro
email: optional@email.com
institute: My optional Institute
university: My optional University
keywords: "Lorem, ipsum"
abstract: "Lorem ipsum"
bibliography: references.bib
csl: lncs.csl
output:
  html_document:
#    toc: true
#    toc_depth: 2
    number_sections: true
    template: lncs-template.html
    theme: null
    highlight: kate
    css: lncs.css
    self_contained: false
    md_extensions: +footnotes
  pdf_document:
    fig_caption: yes
    keep_tex: true
    template: lncs-template.tex
    md_extensions: +footnotes
---

For a full list of output options, see R Markdowns HTML document format and PDF document format.

I added toc, toc_depth and number_sections to the html_document options out of personal favour though this is not conform with the LNCS style. Feel free to remove these.

Usage

To generate the PDF:

$ R -q -e "rmarkdown::render('paper.markdown', 'pdf_document')"

To generate the HTML:

$ R -q -e "rmarkdown::render('paper.markdown', 'html_document')"

The Makefile provides the basic targets make pdf and make html.

Dependencies

Note: this are the installation instructions for OSX. For other platforms, use their package managers. The package names might differe there.

Fonts:

The fonts in fonts/ must be installed on your system.

Pandoc:

$ brew install pandoc

pandoc-citeproc:

$ brew install pandoc-citeproc

R Markdown:

$ brew install R
$ R
> install.packages('rmarkdown', dependencies = TRUE)

Citation

In the Markdown files front matter there has to be the attribute bibliography: references.bib set, where the specified .bib file contains the references of course.

Citing a reference from the .bib file in the markdown text is simply done via R markdowns citation syntax:

bla bla bla [@xiang2007robust; @wu2005efficiently].

Basically, citations go inside square brackets and are separated by semicolons. Each citation must have a key, composed of @ + the citation identifier from the database.

Paper name

The default paper name used is paper.markdown, which will produce paper.pdf and paper.html. If you want to use a different name, feel free to change the .markdown files name, but keep in mind to alter the PAPER variable in the Makefile if you are using the make build approach.