Monday, March 24, 2008

LaTeX problem: Integrating ArabTeX with LLNCS

LaTeX, the typesetting system enables you to produce high-quality documents with less effort. Read more in my other post about LaTeX. On submitting to a conference, I had to work with their class files so I used \documentclass{llncs}. They use LaTeX Lecture Notes in Computer Science (llncs) from Springer.

In the same document, I use ArabTeX package to render Arabic characters. When I applied both packages I found that section numbers disappered! So instead of "1. Introduction" and "1.2 Title" I got "Introduction" and "Title". After spending an hour or two I found that ArabTeX redefines the section formatting command \section using \renewcommand in asect.sty. So I disabled the inclusion of such file in apatch.sty by commenting the following:

%\UsePackage {asect} % load LaTeX extensions for Arabic sections.

For a normal LaTeX installation, all files exist in /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/arabtex/
I don't know who will ever make use of this piece of information, just spreading the word. Let Google help me in that!

9 comments:

GreenyBrownie said...
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GreenyBrownie said...

Thanks. We faced the same problem. On seeing your blog, we did the same thing and it worked. Saved lots of time.
Thanks again.

Unknown said...

I am happy it worked for you. I was suspecting if anyone could make use of this but you have just did! Thanks Google.

um_shaikha said...

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Unknown said...
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Unknown said...

That solved my problem.
Thanks a lot

Alexander said...

Just create an empty file named asect.sty in the folder where your paper lives, and you are done.

Amal said...

Thank youuuuu :)

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