The standard article.sty - latex

...the authors should submit the final version as source files, including a word processor file of the text, such as Word or LateX (If using LaTeX, please use the standard article.sty as a style file and also send a PDF version of the LaTeX file)...
Please what they mean by the standard article.sty, they mean llncs format or which format should I use to write the final version of my paper?

As in the first comment to your question, they mean that you should use the article documentclass if you write in LaTeX. In this case, the first line of your main .tex file would be:
\documentclass[]{article}
with the options (or optional arguments) that you choose, separated by commas, between [ and ].
Here is the user guide to check the options and other matters but no worries about installation: you'll most likely have it included in your LaTeX distribution.

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#-names in plain TeX

Texinfo adds macros starting with '#'. I'm curious how to do that in plain TeX because I'm trying to create a simple TeX framework for my friends' needs and it would be more readable for them.
texinfo essentially replaces plain TeX's backslash with the at sign. This is done by setting the so-called \catcode of the at sign to 0.
Note that with this setting, #command means exactly the same as \command, you don't get a second family of command names.
Note also that designing and implementing a new TeX format is a lot of work; it is much easier to resort to one of the existing TeX formats.

How to handle citations in Ipython Notebook?

What is the best way to take care of citations in Ipython Notebook? Ideally, I would like to have a bibtex file, and then, as in latex, have a list of shorthands in Ipython markdown cells, with the full references at the end of the notebook.
The relevant material I found is this: http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/ipython/nbconvert-examples/blob/master/citations/Tutorial.ipynb
But I couldn't follow the documentation very well. Can anyone explain it? Thanks so much!!
Summary
This solution is largely based on Sylvain Deville's excellent blog post. It allows you to simply write [#citation_key] in markdown cells. The references will be formatted after document conversion. The only requirements are LaTeX and pandoc, which are both widely supported. While there is never a guarantee, this approach should therefore still work in many years time.
Step-by-Step Guide
In addition to a working installation of jupyter you need:
LaTeX (installation guide).
Pandoc (installation guide).
A citation style language. Download a citation style, e.g., APA. Save the .csl file (e.g., apa.csl) into the same folder as your jupyter notebook (or specify the path to the .csl file later).
A .bib file with your references. I am using a sample bib file list.bib. Save to the same folder as your jupyter notebook (or specify the path to the .bib file later).
Once you completed these steps, the rest is easy:
Use markdown syntax for references in markdown cells in your jupyter notebook. E.g., [#Sh:1] where the syntax works like this: ([#citationkey_in_bib_file]). I much prefer this syntax over other solutions because it is so fast to type [#something].
At the end of your ipython notebook, create a code cell with the following syntax to automatically convert your document (note that this is R code, use an equivalent command to system() for python):
#automatic document conversion to markdown and then to word
#first convert the ipython notebook paper.ipynb to markdown
system("jupyter nbconvert --to markdown paper.ipynb")
#next convert markdown to ms word
conversion <- paste0("pandoc -s paper.md -t docx -o paper.docx",
" --filter pandoc-citeproc",
" --bibliography="listb.bib",
" --csl="apa.csl")
system(conversion)
Run this cell (or simply run all cells). Note that the 2nd system call is simply pandoc -s paper.md -t docx -o paper.docx --filter pandoc-citeproc --bibliography=listb.bib --csl=apa.csl. I merely used paste0() to be able to spread this over multiple lines and make it nicer to read.
The output is a word document. If you prefer another document, check out this guide for alternative syntax.
#Extras
If you do not like that your converted document includes the syntax for the document conversion, insert a markdown cell above and below the code cell with the syntax for the conversion. In the cell above, enter <!-- and in the cell below enter -->. This is a regular HTML command for a comment, so the syntax will in between these two cells will be evaluated but not printed.
You can also include a yaml header in your first cell. E.g.,
---
title: This is a great title.
author: Author Name
abstract: This is a great abstract
---
You can use the Document Tools of the Calico suite, which can be installed separately with:
sudo ipython install-nbextension https://bitbucket.org/ipre/calico/downloads/calico-document-tools-1.0.zip
Read the tutorial and watch the YouTube video for more details.
Warning: only the cited references are processed. Therefore, if you fail to cite an article, it won't appear in the References section. As a little working example, copy the following in a Markdown cell and press the "book" icon.
<!--bibtex
#Article{PER-GRA:2007,
Author = {P\'erez, Fernando and Granger, Brian E.},
Title = {{IP}ython: a System for Interactive Scientific Computing},
Journal = {Computing in Science and Engineering},
Volume = {9},
Number = {3},
Pages = {21--29},
month = may,
year = 2007,
url = "http://ipython.org",
ISSN = "1521-9615",
doi = {10.1109/MCSE.2007.53},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
}
#article{Papa2007,
author = {Papa, David A. and Markov, Igor L.},
journal = {Approximation algorithms and metaheuristics},
pages = {1--38},
title = {{Hypergraph partitioning and clustering}},
url = {http://www.podload.org/pubs/book/part\_survey.pdf},
year = {2007}
}
-->
Examples of citations: [CITE](#cite-PER-GRA:2007) or [CITE](#cite-Papa2007).
This should result in the following added Markdown cell:
References
^ PĂ©rez, Fernando and Granger, Brian E.. 2007. IPython: a System for Interactive Scientific Computing. URL
^ Papa, David A. and Markov, Igor L.. 2007. Hypergraph partitioning and clustering. URL
I was able to run it with the following approach:
Insert the html citation as in the tutorial you mentioned.
Create ipython.bib in the "standard" bibtex format. It goes into the same file as your *.ipynb notebook file.
Create the template file as in the tutorial, also in the same directory or else in the (distribution dependent) directory with the other templates. On my system, that's /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/IPython/nbconvert/templates/latex.
The tutorial has the template extend latex_article.tplx. On my distribution, it's article.tplx (without latex_).
Run nbconvert with --to latex; that generates an .aux file among other things. Latex will complain about missing references.
Run bibtex yournotebook.aux; this generates yournotebook.bbl. You only need to re-run this if you change references.
Re-run nbconvert either with --to latex or with --to pdf. This generates a .tex file, or else runs all the way to a .pdf.
If you want html output, you can use pandoc to assemble the references into a tidy citation page. This may require some hand-editing to make an html page you can reference from your main document.
If you know that you will be converting your notebook to latex anyway, consider simply adding a "Raw" cell (Ctrl+M R) to the end of the document, containing the bibliography just as you would put it in pure LaTeX.
For example, when I need to reference a couple of external links, I would not even care to do a proper BibTeX thing and simply have a "Raw" cell at the end of the notebook like that:
\begin{thebibliography}{1}
\bibitem{post1}
Holography in Simple Terms. K.Tretyakov (blog post), 2015.\\
\url{http://fouryears.eu/2015/07/24/holography-in-simple-terms/}
\bibtem{book1}
The Importance of Citations. J. Smith. 2010.
\end{thebibliography}
The items can be cited in other Markdown cells using the usual <cite data-cite="post1">(KT, 2015)</cite>
Of course, you can also use proper BibTeX as well. Just add the corresponding Raw cell, e.g:
\bibliographystyle{unsrt}
\bibliography{papers}
This way you do not have to bother editing a separate template file (at the price of cluttering the notebook's HTML export with raw Latex, though).
You should have a look at the latex_envs extension in https://github.com/ipython-contrib/IPython-notebook-extensions (install from this repo, it is the most recent version). This extension contains a way to integrate bibliography using bibtex files and standard latex notation, and generates a bibliography section at the end of the notebook. Style of citations can be (to some extent) customized. Some documentation here https://rawgit.com/jfbercher/latex_envs/master/doc/latex_env_doc.html

Including doxygen's LaTeX output as an appendix to a larger document

I have a "project book" which uses LaTeX's \documentclass{report} ("report" is like a more compact version of \documentclass{book}). I would like to include into this book an appendix with the Doxygen-generated API documentation for the software in the project.
I have achieved this by setting Doxygen's config options LATEX_HEADER and LATEX_FOOTER to an empty file. This makes the resulting latex/refman.tex have top level commands like: \section{\-Namespace \-Index}, at which point I can wrap this with a top level document like:
\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{doxygen.sty}
% the "import" package helps to find Doxygen files in the latex/ subdirectory
\usepackage{import}
% [...] title page and the rest of the book
\appendix
\chapter{API reference (generated by Doxygen)
subimport{latex/}{refman.tex}
% [...] final stuff
\end{document}
This works reasonably well and I get doxygen.sty with this special doxygen invocation:
doxygen -w latex /dev/null /dev/null doxygen.sty
One problem is that this puts an "autogenerated" header on the entire document (not just on the doxygen appendix). I can get rid of this by editing doxygen.sty (I also rename it for my inclusion, actually) and commenting out the block that starts with % Setup fancy headings.
At this point I have something I can live with, but I would like to go one step further: the "doxygen" style modifies a lot of other aspects of the LaTeX document style, and I like it less.
So my question is (in two levels of excellence):
What would be a minimal set of LaTeX commands to put in a doxygen.sty file that would nicely render the doxygen appendix but not interfere with the rest of the LaTeX document?
Even better, has someone come up with a way of doing
\usepackage{doxygen_standalone}
% [... until you need doxygen]
\begin{doxygen}
% the stuff you need to insert your auto-generated doxygen API docs,
% for example the \subimport{latex/}{refman.tex} that I showed above
\end{doxygen}
This last approach is one I would consider very clean.
I'm hoping there is a really simple answer, such as "this already exists in doxygen.sty as an option, and you missed it!"
rename doxygen.sty to mydoxygen.sty, then modify it by inserting
\newenvironment{doxygen}{... most of doxygen.sty goes here ...}{}

How do I cite the title of an article in LaTeX?

I'm using LaTeX and BibTeX for an article, and I want to able to cite the title of an article I reference. What is the command to do this?
I'm using \bibliographystyle{chicago} and it does not appear to be \citeT{}, \citetitle{} or \citeTitle{}
#Norman, and the various commenters, are correct in that it would be difficult to do this with bibtex and other tools. But, there is an alternative. Biblatex does allow this through the command \citetitle. Also, if you really want to, the formatting drivers in biblatex are easily readable and modifiable, but only if you feel the need. Unfortunately, it is not part of any distribution, yet, so it has to be downloaded and installed.
Just type in the title. Even natbib, the most powerful widespread BibTeX package, is not powerful enough to do what you want out of the box. Trying to get BibTeX to extract the title for you, by means of a LateX command, is possible, but it would require that you
Design a new format for bibliography items that is incompatible with existing formats.
Write your own custom .bst file, using the very strange postfix language that is used only by BibTeX, to be compatible with your new format.
Write a new LaTeX command to pull the title information out of the new format.
Speaking as someone who has written several custom bst files as well as a replacement for BibTeX, it's just not worth fooling with. After all, if you are citing the paper, you probably know the title anyway.
EDIT: If you have to do this with multiple papers, I would try to cheat. Extend the bst file so that it writes into the bbl file a command that writes into the aux file the title associated with each bibkey. You can model the bbl command on \label and the actual title-citing command on \ref.
This is how I solve the title issue for cited papers:
In the preamble
include Natbib:
\usepackage[sort&compress]{natbib}
If you want to cite a TITLE instead of an author in the text you define the title like this in the preamble:
\defcitealias{Weiser1996designingcalm}{Designing Calm Technology}
Note:
You need to have a bibtex item (for the title ''Designing Calm Technology'') with the key {Weiser1996designingcalm}.
In the paper where you want to write the cited paper's title
\citetalias{Weiser1996designingcalm}
this results in => Designing Calm Technology (i.e. the text you specified with the \defcitealias command above)
or
\citepalias{Weiser1996designingcalm}
that results in => (Designing Calm Technology) (i.e. title with parenthesis)
This question is old and maybe \citefield was not around back in the days, but now it works like charm for this kind of problems:
\documentclass[varwidth]{standalone}
\usepackage{biblatex}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
#article{example,
title = {NAME OF PAPER},
}
\end{filecontents}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\begin{document}
\citefield{example}{title}
\end{document}
Got it from this question.
Thanks to Anders for the hint. \defcitealias seems to be the way to go.
Bibtex produces a .bbl file which contains the bibliography entries. something like that
\bibitem[\protect\citeauthoryear{Andrienko
{\itshape{et~al.}}}{2003}]{Andrienko2003}
Andrienko, G., Andrienko, N., and Voss, H., 2003. {GIS for Everyone: The
CommonGIS Project and Beyond}. {\itshape {In}}: {\itshape {Maps and the
Internet}}., 131--146 Elsevier.
I use Eclipse, which is free and that you may already have to apply regular expressions in this file when needed. '\R' acts as platform independent line delimiter. Here is an example of multi-line search:
search:
\\bibitem.*(\R.*)?\R?\{([^{]*)\}\R^[^\\].*\d\d\d\d\.\s([^\.]*\R?[^\.]*)\R?.*\R?.*
and replace:
\\defcitealias{$2}{$3}
(For myself I use \\bibitem.*(\R.*)?\R?\{([^{]*)\}$\R^([^\\].*[^\}]$\R.*$\R.*) to get all the item text)
Et produces a series of \defcitealias that can be copypasted elsewhere:
\defcitealias{Andrienko2003}{{GIS for Everyone: The
CommonGIS Project and Beyond}}
Finally, this can be used to build a custom command such as:
\newcommand{\MyCite}[1]{\citet*{#1}. \citetalias{#1}.}
Used as \MyCite{Andrienko2003} and producing: Andrienko et al. (2003). GIS for Everyone: The CommonGIS Project and Beyond.

Including full LaTeX documents within others

I'm currently finishing off my dissertation, and would like to be able to include some documents within my LaTeX document.
The files I'd like to include are weekly reports done in LaTeX to my supervisor. Obviously all documents are page numbered seperately.
I would like them to be included in the final document.
I could concatenate all the final PDFs using GhostScript or some other tool, but I would like to have consistent numbering throughout the document.
I have tried including the LaTeX from each document in the main document, but the preamble etc causes problems and the small title I have in each report takes a whole page...
In summary, I'm looking for a way of including a number of 1 or 2 page self-complete LaTeX files in a large report, keeping their original layouts, but changing the page numbering.
For a possible solution of \input-ing the original LaTeX files while skipping their preamble, the newclude package might help.
Otherwise, you can use pdfpages for inserting pre-existing PDFs into your dissertation. I seem to recall that it has a feature of "suppressing" the original page numbers by covering them up with white boxes.
The suggestion from #Will Robertson works great. I'd just like to add an example for all lazy people:
\usepackage{pdfpages}
...
% Insert _all_ pages from some_pdf.pdf:
\includepdf[pages=-]{some_pdf} % the .pdf extension may be omitted
From the documentation of the package:
To include a specific range of pages, you could do pages={4-9}. If start is omitted, it defaults to the first page, if end is omitted, it defaults to the last page.
To include it in landscape mode, do landscape=true
Maintaining the original formatting per document will be difficult if they're using different formats. For example, concatenating different document classes will be near impossible.
I would suggest you go with the GhostScript solution with a slight twist. Latex allows you to set the starting page number using \setcounter{page}{13} for example. If you can find an application that can count the pages of a PDF document (pdfinfo in the pdfjam Ubuntu package is one example), then you can do the following:
Compile the next document to PDF
Concatenate the latest PDF with the current full PDF
Find the page count of the full PDF
Use sed to pluck in a \setcounter{page}{N} command into the next latex file
Go back to the beginning
If you need to do any other processing, again use sed. You should (assuming you fix the infinite loop in the above algorithm ;-) ) end up with a final PDF document with all original PDFs concatenated and continuous line numbers.
Have a look a the combine package, which seems to be exactly what you're searching for.
Since it merges documents at the source level, I guess the page numbers will be correct.

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