Unique paper IDs from the beginning to the end

Each paper has a unique paper ID when an author submits a paper (e.g., paper ID of conftool). This ID should be used for storing papers. It would be good if that ID is used at DOI processing.

Currently, the DOIs are generated sequentially. That has the drawback if on-site proceedings and post-conference proceedings are generated and authors do not show and papers have to be removed for the final proceedings.

Steps:

[ ] Explain in README.md that concrete DOIs are generated sequentially
[ ] Offer possibility for using the paper IDs from begin to end

Implementation hints

Currently, the tool requires to sort-in the papers in directories wollowing patterns nm-o, where n is A, B, ..., m is 1, 2, 3, o is 1, 2, 3. This is very confusing when paper updates come in. Then, the paper number of the submission system has to be mapped to the tool's ID.

Ablage

Sub directory papers. Each directory name there is the paper id. In the special case of multiple conf tools (e.g., easychair for workshop A, conftool for workshop B, conftool instance 2 for conference), the proceedings author need to use another number namespace (e.g., 1xxx for workshop 1, 2xxxx for workshop 2, ...)

meta-abstract.txt // one line with abstract, \begin{abstract}...\end{abstract}
meta-keywords.txt // one line with keywords \begin{keywords}...\end{keywords}
meta-authors-bib.txt // authors in BibTeX format, \author handling (See below)
meta-title.txt // one line with title \title

Which file name to be used for generation? A) .txt.gen , B) .txt. We opt for B, because we trigger the generation script manually and then know how to proceed.

Generation

Read .tex, latex2unicode, remote newlines

Special case authors:

Discussion:
- \author[]: does not work if et al
- \footnote removal: a) python tex parser (https://jeltef.github.io/PyLaTeX/current/), b) regex. We opt for regex, because more writable and maintainable solution

Issues

If \cite commands are included, meta-abstract.txt has to be edited manually

Mapping

CSV paper-mapping.csv

Id	Track	Nummer
1	C	1
2	C	2
...	...	...
42	A	3

There needs to be a script converting paper-mapping.csv to \addpaper commands. paperlist.tex (to be included in proceedings.tex; refs https://github.com/gi-ev/LNI-proceedings/issues/26).

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