Sep 20, 2009 - language and a LaTeX template for the book of abstracts. Overview of the conference, a detailed program, all the abstracts.

Years ago I created a conference programme manual with the help of LaTeX. We used a self-developed online tool for the different sessions, so I asked the developer to give me a list of all days, rooms, session and presentations. I fed this list into my own MySQL database and with the help of PHP generated a series of SQL statements querying the days, rooms, sessions, etc.

I generated then the necessary LaTeX code and pasted this directly into the programme. Chertezhi formi dlya zhb koljca. The big advantage was that with any change in the original database I just had to rerun my scripts. If you are interested, have a look at the file.