A boilerplate environment for writing LaTeX articles using the popular templates from Springer, IEEE, ACM, AAAI, Elsevier, etc. Using this template, switching a paper from any stylesheet to any other simply amounts to regenerating two files with an included PHP script. You don't need to change a single line of the main, paper.tex document you are working on.
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%% My paper
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%% Authors: Emmett Brown, Marty McFly, Biff Tannen
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%% NOTE: this file will not compile until you called the script
%% generate-preamble.php once. See the file Readme.md to understand what
%% to do.
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%% This paper is an instance of the PaperShell template. For more
%% information, please visit https://github.com/sylvainhalle/PaperShell
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%% Author preamble. The contents of this file change depending on the
%% paper class you choose.
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\input{preamble.inc.tex}
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%% If you wish to include additional packages, define new environments or
%% new commands, put them in the file includes.tex
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%% Write your abstract in the file abstract.tex.
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%% Introduction
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\section{Introduction} %% {{{
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\section{Donec id eros non nisl pharetra} %% {{{
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\begin{figure}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.4\textwidth]{square-circle}
\caption{A square and a circle}
\label{fig:square-circle}
\end{figure}
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%% Bibliography and postamble
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\input{midamble.inc.tex}
\bibliography{paper}
\input{postamble.inc.tex}
\end{document}
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