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Towards the Automation of Book Typesetting: Acknowledgments and References

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This paper proposes a generative approach for the automatic typesetting of books that consistently creates varied book designs from the same input content.

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Authors:

(1) Sérgio M. Rebelo, University of Coimbra, Centre for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra, Department of Informatics Engineering, Coimbra, Portugal and a Corresponding author;

(2) Tiago Martins, University of Coimbra, Centre for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra, Department of Informatics Engineering, Coimbra, Portugal and a Corresponding author;

(3) Diogo Ferreira, University of Coimbra, Centre for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra, Department of Informatics Engineering, Coimbra, Portugal and a Corresponding author;

(4) Artur Rebelo, University of Coimbra, Centre for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra, Department of Informatics Engineering, Coimbra, Portugal.

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6. Acknowledgments

We would like to express our gratitude to all the participants in the evaluation sessions. This work is partially supported by the Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P./MCTES (Portugal) through national funds (PIDDAC), within the scope of project UIDB/00326/2020 or project code UIDP/00326/2020. Sérgio M. Rebelo was funded by FCT under the grant SFRH/BD/132728/2017 and COVID/BD/151969/2021.

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