> Words like ‘á’ won’t be pushed into text
Not specific to LNCS. Add to the preamble something like:
\usepackage[iso-8859-1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{T1]{fontenc}

> the demo DOESN’T EXPLAIN simply how to add the lncs style in the article class
The LNCS class completely replaces article class, you don’t need to use the latter.

If you want to put foreign languages like french, german or spanish, you simply can’t. You will never can’t. Words like ‘á’ won’t be pushed into text because you can’t use \usepackage[language]{babel} because the demo DOESN’T EXPLAIN simply how to add the lncs style in the article class, e.g.

This is very, very frustrating way to make a simple paper for a conference.

I don’t reccomend it.

# RichardBao Says:
April 23rd, 2005 at 6:27 am

would you please tell us how to insert a figure?

Simply: for pdftex, you can use the .pdf figures, .eps figures and .png figures (the free way, only I use the pdf figures, the other 2 I can’t tell you if it works or not), for tex 2 div you can use gif, jpeg, etc (the paid and patented way), both commanded by the next sentence

\includegraphics[height = \textheight]{a2.pdf}
This way you can add a graphic named “a2.pdf” in the same folder as the source code.
You need the “graphix” package, in the preamble put
\usepackage{graphicx}
So… ¡poof! you can put all the images you want only writing \includegraphics{”name_of_the_file”}

Regards!

For those of us who used llncs.zip (using LaTeX) there were no hints that a necessary file came from a different zip file. Thanks very much for blogging this — I was in the midst of pestering the conference chair when I found the insight I needed here.