2025-01-14

Changed

• Compilation with both lualatex and pdflatex is possible. Defaults to lualatex.
• Nicer gray scale for minted listings.
• Dockerfile switched to Island of TeX's docker image to enable easy addition of new LaTeX packages.

2022-03-01

Changed

• LNCS is now based on the offical CTAN package llncs.
• Now generated using the latex template generator.
• Replaced \ifluatex statements by separate .tex documents. This makes each .tex document smaller and simpler to understand.
• Quoting is done with ``...'' instead of \qq{...}
• Updated to TeXLive 2021

Added

• Added initial Dockerfile to enable building using Docker.
• Added package mindflow, which supports quickly noting down thoughts with a) a proper rendering of LaTeX and b) a proper differentiation from the main text
• Enable deletion of *.bbl when calling latexmk -c
• Added explicit LICENSE: 0BSD
• Added more LaTeX hints

Fixed

• Examples now also work on overleaf. \currfile now correctly returns main.tex/paper.tex instead of output.tex.

Version 1.9.1

Fixed

• Fixed compatibility with recent babel versions: using main=english as package parameter.

Version 1.9.0

Added

• Added explanation how to use this class for German papers.
• Added a fix for using the babel package.
  See https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/441670/9075 for details.

Changed

• Minimum required llncs.cls file: 2018/03/10.

Version 1.8.0

Added

• Added stfloats package to enable footnotes appearing after floats.
• Added option babel to microtype package to ensure that documents written in a language other than English also work.
• Added package siunitx incluing an example.

Changed

• Refined README.md.

Fixed

• Numbers can be copied. Enabled by switching from cmap to glyphtounicode. Fixes #22.

Removed

• Removed building of llncs.dem and llncs.doc from CircleCI script, because these files are not distributed by Springer anymore.

Version 1.7.0

Added

• Support for lualatex as compiler.
  When using "Times New Roman" due to space limitations, the font of the code is still "Latin Modern" in the case of lualatex.

Fixed

• The font size of the bibliography is fixed.

Changed

• The monospaced font is not variable any more.

Version 1.6.1

Fixed

• Changed minimum requirement regarding version of llncs.cls to 2017/09/04 (version 2.19).
• Fix multiply defined label L2.

Version 1.6.0

Changed

• Separated minted support to separate file paper-conference-minted.tex.
• Changed minted style from friendly to bw.

Added

• Added "aboveskip" and "belowskip" hints
• Added example Java listing using minted.
• Added example XML listing using listings.

Fixed

• The example listing is now floating. Otherwise, the listing flows from one page to the next and interrupted by a floating table.

Version 1.5.0

Changed

• Ligatures are disabled for monospaced font. E.g., \texttt{--} stays -- and is not converted to an en dash.
• Replace splncs03.bst by splncsnat.bst, which was developed in a clean way by @tpavlic.

Added

• Example for citet (enabled by splncsnat.bst).

Version 1.4.1

Fixed

• Numbers in the bibliography are rendered as LNCS required again.