[PRL] LNCS latex style

Richard Cobbe cobbe at ccs.neu.edu
Fri Aug 31 17:46:07 EDT 2007


On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 04:16:53PM -0400, Dave Herman wrote:
> In the LNCS latex style, the lemma/theorem/etc environment starts the
> text on the same line as the heading, but this looks bad for theorems
> with multiple propositions, e.g.
>
>      Lemma 7.
>        (i) Ice cream is tasty.
>        (ii) Frozen yogurt, not so much.
>        (iii) Ice cream > frozen yogurt.
>
> Unfortunately, if I just insert a \newline (preceded by a "\ " to
> prevent LaTeX from barfing), it ends up with far too large of a break
> between the heading and the statement.
>
> Is there a better way to do this?

What does putting an enumerate or itemize environment inside the
lemma/theorem/etc. environment do?  (I don't have the LNCS style handy, so
I can't try this myself.)

Richard



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