Considered alternatives

When designing this solution to typeset complete proceedings, several alternatives were investigated. Nearly all possible alternatives are listed at http://www.ctan.org/topic/confproc. In the following, evaluated alternatives are listed and discussed.

confproc

confproc seems to the most suitable alternative. Compared with this approach, it has following drawbacks:

  • The PDFs of the papers do not take a proper heading (page numbers, editor).
  • When clicking on a link in one included PDF, the linked PDF is opened instead of jumping to the link.
  • Indexing of authors has to be done by manually.

combine

The combine class combines the sources of different LaTeX together. Since there might be conflicting packges, we wanted to include each PDF on its own. The PDFs can be typeset by itself.

proc

proc is a very basic class based on the article class. No update since 1995.

Springer Computer Science Proceedings

Springer offers help for proceedings authors at https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/editor-guidelines-for-springer-proceedings. It uses makeindex instead of biblatex for index generation. We opted for biblatex+texindy to be UTF-8 save and to directly be able to use the content of \authors for index generation.

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