conference-proceedings-bash

Bash scripts for managing conference proceedings written in LaTeX.

Original scripts used for ACML 2016 proceedings (published in JMLR).

Files

• articles.list

  Defines the articles (and their order) for the proceedings.

  Format:

  name <TAB> dir <TAB> compiler <TAB> include in page count (yes|no)
  

• build.sh

  Builds all papers defined in articles.list (same directory as build.sh). The articles.list file contains the directories of the articles and the compiler to use for each article (eg xelatex or pdflatex).

• list_page_no.sh

  Once the build.sh script has compiled all articles, this script can be used to output the page numbers of all the articles. It also outputs the start page number for each of the articles. Articles, like prefaces, can be excluded from the start page count (see articles.list format).

• update_start_page.sh

  Updates the start page command sequences in the articles using the output generated by list_page_no.sh.

  The following LaTeX sequence gets updated:

  \newcommand{\startpage}{123}
  

• copy_to.sh

  Copies the compiled articles (ie PDFs) to a user-specified output directory. This includes optional, supplementary documents.

Example articles definition

# format:
# name <TAB> dir <TAB> compiler <TAB> include in page count (yes|no)

preface	00_preface	xelatex	no
chen115	01_01_01_Paper 115/chen115	xelatex	yes
Fu62	01_01_02_Paper 62/Fu62	xelatex	yes
yang54	01_01_04_Paper 54/yang54	xelatex	yes
nguyen19	01_02_01_Paper 19/nguyen19	pdflatex	yes
sahoo56	01_02_02_Paper 56/sahoo56	xelatex	yes
lei63	01_02_03_Paper 63/lei63	xelatex	yes
qiao37	01_02_05_Paper 37/qiao37	xelatex	yes
Brault39	01_03_01_Paper 39/Brault39	xelatex	yes
takada48	01_03_02_Paper 48/takada48	xelatex	yes
clemencon64	01_03_03_Paper 64/clemencon64	xelatex	yes
Gao09	01_03_04_Paper 9/Gao09	xelatex	yes
walder88	01_04_01_Paper 88/walder88	pdflatex	yes
Fu60	01_04_02_Paper 60/Fu60	xelatex	yes
Dasgupta79	01_04_04_Paper 79/Dasgupta79	xelatex	yes
chen33	02_05_01_Paper 33/chen33	xelatex	yes
lim83	02_05_02_Paper 83/lim83	xelatex	yes
nguyen93	02_05_03_Paper 93/nguyen93	pdflatex	yes
bai103	02_05_04_Paper 103/bai103	xelatex	yes
ye4	02_06_03_Paper 4/ye4	xelatex	yes
yamane65	02_06_04_Paper 65/yamane65	xelatex	yes
Gouk8	02_06_05_Paper 8/Gouk8	pdflatex	yes
kumaraswamy29	02_07_01_Paper 29/kumaraswamy29	xelatex	yes
gao30	02_07_02_Paper 30/gao30	xelatex	yes
ko101	02_07_03_Paper 101/ko101	pdflatex	yes
Marron87	02_07_04_Paper 87/Marron87	xelatex	yes
Song106	02_08_01_Paper 106/Song106	xelatex	yes
ShafieiBavani24	02_08_02_Paper 24/ShafieiBavani24	xelatex	yes
Horev84	02_08_03_Paper 84/Horev84	xelatex	yes
Song94	02_08_04_Paper 94/Song94	xelatex	yes

Example commands

Here is an example sequence of commands:

build.sh
list_page_no.sh > pages.txt
update_start_page.sh -p pages.txt
build.sh
copy_to.sh -o /somewhere/final-proceedings