System setup

This section describes the setup of software required. This howto is based on a Windows environment. Linux users should have ready most of the tools required.

Using Docker

On both Windows and Linux, one can use Docker for a fully configured Linux environment being able to build the proceedings. For inspection, the docker image can be found at https://hub.docker.com/r/danteev/texlive/. Assuming, the proceedings reside in c:\git-repositories\LNI-proceedings, following command leads to a bash shell enabling running the required commands:

docker run -v c:\git-repositories\LNI-proceedings:/var/texlive -it danteev/texlive:edge bash

Manual Setup on Windows

MiKTeX should be installed in a single-user setup to avoid troubles when updating packages. Furthermore, it should be installed at C:\MiKTeX to have an easy path access. Otherwise, you have to follow the steps described at http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/108490/9075 to keep your MiKTeX distribution updated.

  • Download the basic installer from http://miktex.org/download
  • Start it
  • First screen: Read the license condiditions and be sure that you really agree.
  • Second screen: “Shared Installation”: Install MiKTeX for: “Only for: username”
  • Third screen: “Installation Directory”: Install MiKTeX to: C:\MiKTeX. This enabled browsing for documentation at C:\MiKTeX29\doc\latex
  • Fourth screen: “Settings”: Preferred paper: A4 and Install missing packages on the fly: Yes
  • Fifth screen: Press “Start”
  • After the installation:
    1. Open cmd.exe
    2. Execute mpm --update-db
    3. Execute mpm --update
    4. Execute mpm --install=cm-super
    5. Execute initexmf --update-fndb
    6. Execute initexmf --mklinks --force

Python 3

This is required to automatically extract the authors and title from the papers source texs.

  1. Install Python: choco install python
  2. Install pyparsing
    • pip install pyparsing (or pip3 install pyparsing)
  3. Install python-docx
    • pip install python-docx (or pip3 install python-docx)

Linux commands available at cmd.exe

We need sed being available at a cmd.exe shell. This should be available when you executed choco install git.

PDFtk

This is required for to cut the proceedings.pdf into separate PDF files, one per paper, to submit to “Digitale Bibliothek der GI”.

  • Install PDFtk using choco install pdftk