improvements for START book chair guide

[Shimorina]

Hello again!

The START guide doesn't mention the files just-program.tex and just-toc.tex, however, without them compiling proceedings on START is not possible. Also, START interface (Templates tab) has no fields for those two files. So in my understanding, the Step 3 of the guide becomes an obligatory one contrary to what is stated there.

I'd issue a PR to fix that, but I'm not sure if my understanding is correct, and if there wouldn't be any changes planned to templates and/or START interface.

Thank you for all your work!

[danielgildea]

@rrgerber I don't see just-program.tex and just-toc.tex in any of the repositiories.
Is it possible that they are on the server somewhere and were never committed to git?
Perhaps they did not get moved with the other template files.

[rrgerber]

They are in the start branch. Didn't they make it into the master? If not, pull them in please

[danielgildea]

Oh, sorry, they are in master.
I don't understand the problem. They aren't mentioned in the documentation, but I don't see why a book chair would need to modify them, or why editing the proceedings offline (Step 3) would be necessary.

[rrgerber]

You probably don't have to document them, but we will leave those files in the user interface because someone may want to edit them in the future. For example, the code for the DOIs was placed in there by a user, and now we have that functionality. Granted, they no longer need to know about that one, but I don't know what may come up later. But the DOI feature should indeed be documented if it isn't so already.

[Shimorina]

I don't understand the problem. They aren't mentioned in the documentation, but I don't see why a book chair would need to modify them, or why editing the proceedings offline (Step 3) would be necessary.

If you follow the guide now, it says to ignore the "Dwnl templates" tab (Step 3) and use the user interface provided in the tab "Templates" (Step 4). However, using only the tab "Templates" it is impossible to generate "program" and "toc" templates:

In the output logs one sees a mention of just-program.tex and just-toc.tex and has no idea where to take them (as they are not mentioned in the guide) and where to upload them (as there's no GUI for them in the "Templates" tab). That's why I wanted to improve the guide.

[rrgerber]

Would you tell me which site you are using? Those templates should be present by default. - Rich

[Shimorina]

I was a book chair here: https://www.softconf.com/eacl2021/HumEval2021/