NIME 2023 Latex template - some issues

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I’m checking the template available at the NIME 2023 website and found some issues. I’m posting here in an attempt to help others planning to use the LaTeX template:

  1. Both my laptop and Overleaf seem to generate the PDF with no space between sections and paragraphs. A quick fix could be modifying the class, and replacing it with more sensitive values to the spacing parameter.

    • On nime-alternate.cls, lines 1038 and 1042, I replaced -10 and -4 with 10 and 4. E.g.: \@startsection{part}{9}{\z@}{10\p@ \@plus 4\p@ \@minus -2\p@}
    • On the same file, lines 1047 and 1051, I replaced -8 and -2 with 8 and 2. E.g.: \@startsection{subsection}{2}{\z@}{8\p@ \@plus 2\p@ \@minus -\p@}

  2. It looks like the \conferenceinfo metadata command isn’t updated. Following the commented lines, I assume the information on line 35 should be replaced by: \conferenceinfo{NIME'23,}{May 31 - June 2, 2023, UNAM / Tecnológico de Monterrey / UAM-Lerma, Mexico City, Mexico.}. Can the organizers please confirm if the information is accurate?

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Hi Eduardo, thanks for bringing this to our attention.
We have now updated the templates.
If you spot anything else please let me know.

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would it be a good idea to store the template under version control, e.g., at https://github.com/NIME-conference/nime-template.

I took the first step of creating the repo, but got a bit discouraged seeing that there’s in fact two latex templates (papers and music) and that these use different styles… is the music one in use this year @juan_pablo ?

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Yes, the style for music proceedings is different. Please see: Music Proceedings | NIME
And of course it will be in use this year: NIME 2023 - Call for Music (we wouldn’t include it in the templates if that weren’t the case)

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Hi Juan. Just to let you know, the template I downloaded in late January still had the layout problem described above, and I had to implement Eduardo’s fix. Which thankfully worked really well.

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Hi, I noticed something, posting here in case anyone needs this.

Any non-English character in an \anonymize field breaks the compilation completely and, in Overleaf at least, there’s no real errors that indicate the problem. For example, this kills it:

\usepackage[blind]{anonymize}
...
\alignauthor
\anonymize{Fîrstnäme Lästnåmé}\\

To fix it you have to escape each character:

\usepackage[blind]{anonymize}
...
\alignauthor
\anonymize{F\îrstn\äme L\ästn\åm\é}\\

Hope this helps! :slight_smile:

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