DCS Group LaTeX classes

I have prepared a customized class for writing scientific articles, containing listings of programs, algorithms, etc. It consists of the following files:

dcsarticle.cls: An article. It loads dcslib.sty. The class has an option report used to produce a technical report. Requires at least version 2.6 of titlesec package.
Current version is 920 produced on 2009-12-21 .
dcsbook.cls: A book. It also loads dcslib.sty.
Current version is 920 produced on 2009-12-21 .
dcslib.sty: The main part of the class dcsarticle. I have put all these stuff in a separate package to make it possible to use the functionality of dcsarticle with other classes, e.g. beamer class. The package has an option theorems that defines a set of theorems as in Springer LNCS.
Requires at least version 1.3 of listings package.
Current version is 920 produced on 2009-12-21 .
dcsalg.sty: An auxiliary class for typesetting algorithms. Uses algorithmicx package.
Current version is 920 produced on 2009-12-21 .
dcsarticle.layout: A layout for LyX 1.6.x to write articles using dcsarticle class in LyX.
Current version is 920 produced on 2009-12-21 .
dcsbook.layout: A layout for LyX 1.6.x to write books using dcsbook class in LyX.
Current version is 920 produced on 2009-12-21 .
dcs.module: A module for LyX 1.6.x with definitions of inline styles: Emph, Strong, Code, Path, Cmd, Kbd, Name, and a customized style LyX-Code.
Current version is 920 produced on 2009-12-21 .
logopp.png: A logo file used by some of the classes.

CSThesis class

And one more class for my PhD thesis:

csthesis.cls: The class is based on a standard book class. It uses both dcslib.sty and dcsalg.sty.
Current version is 892 produced on 2009-12-17 .
csthesis.layout: A layout for LyX to write books using csthesis class in LyX.
Current version is 920 produced on 2009-12-21 .

LLS = LaTeX + LyX + Subversion/CVS

In this paper (in Polish) I have presented a set of tools that may be used to work on documents in a group of people in a heterogeneous environment (e.g. mixture of Linux and Windows systems).

Tips and Tricks

PDF documents manipulation

If you want to put multiple pages of an existing PDF document on a single sheet use the scripts from pdfjam package. For example, when producing a handout of my presentations I run:

pdfnup --nup 2x2 --paper a4paper --frame true --scale 0.96 \
       --delta "2mm 2mm" doc.pdf

I use pdfnup also for scaling documents (e.g. LNCS papers):

pdfnup --nup 1x1 --scale 1.2 doc.pdf

Strike-through text

Use package ulem, eg.:

\usepackage[normalem]{ulem}
...
Ala \sout{nie} ma kota

will produce: Ala nie ma kota. The option normalem saves the standard emphasizing command (by default it is changed to underline). The other commands are: \uline for multiline underlining, \uuline for double underlining, \uwave for wavy underline.

Additional fonts

I recommend replacing replacing standard Computer Modern constant width font with for example: Bera Mono or Luxi Mono. These are very nice, scalable fonts. They have bold variants and contain complete set of polish characters. In order to install it in unix systems, run latex-font-inst.sh script.

Mirrored output

If you want to get a mirrored output use the crop package, and the command \crop. Here is an example:

\usepackage[a4center,mirror]{crop}
\crop[cross]

Bibliography

Key generation algorithm

If there is only one author: take the first three letters out of his name and join it with the year number (two digits), e.g. Sch90.
If there are more than one author but less than four: take first letters of their names and join it with the year number (two digits), AB90.
If there are more than four authors: take first characters of the first three of them, a plus character, and two digits of the year, e.g. ABC+99.
If there are conflicts: attach single letters a, b and so on to the keys generated, e.g. AB90a.

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