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          LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE 
          Advice to Authors for the Preparation of Camera-Ready 
          Contributions to LNCS/LNAI Proceedings 

          The preparation of manuscripts which are to be reproduced
          by photo-offset requires special care. Manuscripts which
          are submitted in technically unsuitable form will be
          returned for retyping or cancelled if the volume otherwise
          cannot be finished on time. In order to make the volume
          look as uniform as possible the following instructions
          should be followed closely. 

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          * PRINTING AREA: 
          Using 10-point font size for the main text the printing
          area should be 12.2 x 19.3 cm. Manuscripts prepared in this
          preferrred format are reproduced in the same size in the
          book. With these settings, the interline distance should be
          arranged in such a way that some 42 to 45 lines occur on a
          full-text page.

          * TYPEFACE and SIZE: 
          We recommend the use of Times or one of the similar
          typefaces widely used in phototypesetting. (In Times and
          similar typefaces the letters have serifs, i.e., short
          endstrokes at the head and the foot of letters.) Please do
          not use a sans-serif typeface for running text, except for
          computer programs. 

          The text should always be justified to occupy the full line
          width, so that the right margin is not ragged. For normal
          text please use 10-point type size and one-line spacing.
          Small print (abstract and affiliation) should be set in
          9-point type size. Please use italic print to emphasize
          words in running text; bold type in running text and
          underlining should be avoided. 

          Headings should be capitalized (i.e., nouns, verbs and all
          other words with at least five letters should have a
          capital initial) and should, with the exception of the
          title, be aligned to the left. The font sizes are as
          follows: 
           
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          Heading level      Example Font          size and style

          Title (centered)     Type Theory           14 point, bold 
          1st-level heading    1 Introduction        12 point, bold  
          2nd-level heading  2.1 Simple Connections  10 point, bold 
          3rd-level heading    Typing Rules.         10 point, bold 
          4th-level heading  Remarks: (text follows) 10 point,italic 
           
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          * FIGURES: 
          If possible, originals should be pasted into the manuscript
          and centered between the margins; if no originals of the
          required size are available, figures may be reduced in
          scale and pasted into the text. For halftone figures
          (photos), please forward high-contrast glossy prints and
          mark the space in the text as well as the back of the
          photographs clearly, so that there can be no doubt about
          where or which way up they should be placed. The lettering
          of figures should be in 10-point font size. Figures should
          be numbered. The legends also should be centered between
          the margins and be written in 9-point font size as follows:

          (bold) Fig. 3. (text follows) 

          * PAGE NUMBERING: 
          Your paper should show no printed page numbers; they are 
          decided by the volume editor and finally inserted by the 
          printer. Please indicate the ordering of your pages by 
          numbering the sheets (using a light blue/green pencil) at
          the bottom of the reverse side. There also should be no
          running heads. 

          * PRINTING QUALITY: 
          For reproduction we need sheets which are printed on one
          side only. Please use a high-resolution printer, preferably
          a laser printer with at least 300 dpi or higher resolution
          if possible. It is desirable that on all pages the text
          appears in the middle of the sheets. 

          * REMARK 1: 
          If your typesetting system does not offer the variety of
          font sizes needed for the preparation of your manuscript
          according to these instructions, you may choose a different
          (larger) font size and a correspondingly scaled printing
          area (12-point font size for the running text, for example,
          corresponds to a printing area of 15.3 x 24.2 cm and to a
          final reduction rate of 80%). 

          * REMARK 2: 
          You are encouraged to use LaTeX or TeX for the preparation
          of you camera-ready manuscript together with the
          corresponding Springer style files "llncs" (for LaTeX) or
          "plncs" (for TeX) to be obtained by e-mail or by ftp/gopher
          as follows:
          Mailserver: Send an e-mail message to
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             get /tex/plain/plncs.zip  for the TeX style files.
          Sending "help" to the server prompts advice on how to
          interact with the mail server. The style files have to be
          unzipped and uu-decoded for use. In case of problems in
          getting or uu-decoding the style files please contact
          "springer vax.ntp.springer.de".
          Ftp: The internet address is "trick.ntp.springer.de", the
          user id "ftp" or "anonymous". Please enter your e-mail
          address as password. The (above mentioned) files
          reside in "/pub/tex".
          Gopher: Point your client to "trick.ntp.springer.de".


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