A LaTeX + R set-up to handle abstracts for a conference and produce an abstracts booklet.
This particular concoction has been in use since 2005 (with continuous polishing) to make abstract booklets for the Ialian Mammal Society congresses (http://www.mammiferi.org).
I did, at that time (circa 2005), some research on available "abstract booklet" LaTeX packages/toolchains, and I decided to use the abstbook
class.
Some references here:
- the
abstbook
class on CTAN: http://ctan.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/misc/abstbook.cls - a thread on Mac OSX TeX thatr gave me some inspiration: http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/2004-March/005037.html
I decided to start from the abstbook
class, bit with some kinks, modifying it to use KOMA-script scrreprt
class, which I personally find more flexible than article
.
Actually, ot have a full (i.e. printer-ready) booklet, three separate files are needed:
- the cover
- the spine
- the book itself
Most of the material used here is borrowed from another project, that is the LaTeX code base used to typeset a scientific Journal (see: http://www.italian-journal-of-mammalogy.it/), that is a class called hysarticle
.
Note that the new hysabstract.cls
class is intended to typeset just the "mainmatter" of an abstract booklet. Actually, one can have just a single LaTeX source for an abstracts booklet, but "the hysarticle
way" works lihe that:
- cover: is made using
cover.tex
(based on the beautifulmemoir
class) using files in thefrontmatter
directory. - front matter: is made using
frontmatter.tex
(based as well onmemoir
) using files in thefrontmatter
directory. - spine: is made using spine.tex, in the 'frontmatter' folder as well.
Tnis means that you'll have an Hystrix abstrsct booklet supplement issue source tree organised like that: | +---- main.tex (the master file that includes abstracts and outputs the abstract booklet) | +---- test.tex (a bare-bones version of the master file, used to compile a single abstract) +---- frontmatter (all the stuff needed for cover, frontmatter and spine, like an standard Hystrix issue) | +---- cover.tex | +---- frontmatter.tex +---- abstracts | +----(single abstracts, each one as a separate .tex file to be included in main.tex) |