This repository aims to provide a quick start for modern LaTeXing with LNCS. In addition to the official template, it offers following features:

• clean copy and paste of ligatures (e.g., "workflow" stays "workflow" after copying from the PDF).
• 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.
• microtypographic extensions for a better look of the paper.
• support of \powerset.
• support of hyperlinked references without extra color thanx to hyperref.
• better breaking of URLs.
• sharper font.

The official template is available at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0. The files are also provided at Springer's FTP server at ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/.

Two files of Springer are needed to get the template working: ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/llncs.cls and ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/splncs03.bst. Reason: Licensing restrictions of Springer do not allow distribution outside of springer. See message #47 for debian bug 31897 for details. Therefore, the required files llncs.cls and splncs03.bst have to be downloaded in some way. Follow the quick start instructions.

• Click on Download ZIP or here.
• Extract template.zip in the folder where you want to write your paper.
• Place llncs.cls and splncs03.bst into the directory
  • Download them manually from ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/llncs.cls and ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/splncs03.bst.
  • Alternatively, ensure that JAVA_HOME is correctly set. This is ensured by using choco install jdk8, whereby choco is offered by chocolatey. Execute gradlew init.
  • In case ftp does not work at your side, you can try online ftp services such as http://www.net2ftp.com/ to download the files. Open the connection to ftp.springer.de and navigate to pub, text, latex, llncs, latex2e, and download the two files.
• Edit paper.tex.
• latexmk paper.

• Provides a skeletal paper.tex file
• Adds modern packages such as microtype, cleveref, csquotes, paralist, hyperref, hypcap, cfr-lm
• Support of copy and paste from the generated PDF: Glyphs are encoded using unicode characters. This is enabled by the cmap package.
• Support todos as pdf annotations. This is enabled by the pdfcomment package.
• Support for \powerset command
• Generated PDF allows for copy and paste of text without getting words with ligatures such as "workflow" destroyed

There is currently no official biblatex support. A first step towards that is done at biblatex-lncs.

MiKTeX installation hints are given at https://github.com/latextemplates/scientific-thesis-template/blob/template/README.md#installation-hints-for-windows.

Grammar and spell checking is available at TeXstudio. Please download LanguageTool and configure TeXstudio to use it. Note that it is enough to point to languagetool.jar. Use JabRef to manage your bibliography.

If TeXstudio doesn't fit your need, check the list of all available LaTeX Editors.

This howto assumes that you don't have a git repository for your paper yet. If you have, just add https://github.com/latextemplates/LNCS.git as upstream and merge the branch template into your master branch.

1. Open command line
2. git clone https://github.com/latextemplates/LNCS.git
3. cd LNCS
4. git remote rename origin upstream
5. git checkout -b master

After that you can use and push the master branch as usual. Notes on syncing with the upstream repository are available from GitHub. Note that we decided to call the upstream branch template to have a clear distinction between the real content (maintained in your master branch) and the template (maintained in the template branch).

ShareLaTeX might output following warning:

LaTeX Warning: You have requested, on input line 8, version 2015/06/24' of document class llncs, but only version2004/08/17 v2.14 LaTeX document class for Lecture Notes in Computer Science' is available.

The reason is that you did not download llncs.cls from ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/, but you did get if from somewhere else. Please use the latest version offered by Springer.

• Do not update gradle to a higher version: Starting from 2.14 you will get the output "Unable to get progress logger. Download progress will not be displayed."
• Do not update de.undercouch.download to a version higher than 2.1.0. FTP downloads are not supported in higher versions. See michel-kraemer/gradle-download-task#60.

• German: Hinweise zu Ausarbeitungen: http://wiki.flupp.de/studium/ausarbeitungen
• Other templates: http://latextemplates.github.io/