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8 files changed, 228 insertions, 77 deletions

diff --git a/macros/latex/contrib/jacow/JACoW_LaTeX_A4.pdf b/macros/latex/contrib/jacow/JACoW_LaTeX_A4.pdf
index daf5300703..51141f37b9 100644
--- a/macros/latex/contrib/jacow/JACoW_LaTeX_A4.pdf
+++ b/macros/latex/contrib/jacow/JACoW_LaTeX_A4.pdf
diff --git a/macros/latex/contrib/jacow/JACoW_LaTeX_A4.tex b/macros/latex/contrib/jacow/JACoW_LaTeX_A4.tex
index 4dee33ef9d..a0b3fcce0d 100644
--- a/macros/latex/contrib/jacow/JACoW_LaTeX_A4.tex
+++ b/macros/latex/contrib/jacow/JACoW_LaTeX_A4.tex
@@ -1,20 +1,38 @@
-% !TeX spellcheck = en_GB
+%
+%%%% !BIB TS-program = biber
+%%%% !BIB program = biber
+% !BIB TS-program = bibtex
+% !BIB program = bibtex
+% !TeX spellcheck = en_US
 % !TeX program = lualatex
 %
-% v 2.3  Feb 2019   Volker RW Schaa
-%		# changes in the collaboration therefore updated file "jacow-collaboration.tex"
-%		# all References with DOIs have their period/full stop before the DOI (after pp. or year)
-%		# in the author/affiliation block all ZIP codes in square brackets removed as it was not %         understood as optional parameter and ZIP codes had bin put in brackets
-%       # References to the current IPAC are changed to "IPAC'19, Melbourne, Australia"
-%       # font for ‘url’ style changed to ‘newtxtt’ as it is easier to distinguish "O" and "0"
+% v 2.7  Feb 2022   Volker RW Schaa
+%   
+%  maintenance release to fix problems with changes in required package
+%  - Option "keeplastbox" deprecated in "flushend"
+%  - Option "binary-units" removed from "siunitx"
+%  - Option "detect-mode" deprecated in "siunitx" release: v3.0.32
+%    Use "mode=match" as a replacement.
+%  - Option "detect-weight" deprecated in "siunitx" release: v3.0.32
+%    Use "reset-text-series=false, text-series-to-math=true" as a replacement.
+%  - "fixltx2e" is not required with releases after 2015
+%  - "ifluatex" and "ifxetex" dropped for "iftex"
+%  - some biblatex macros addded to achieve better JACoW reference formatting 
+%
+%  no changes in
+%	# "jacow-collaboration.tex"
+%   # "annexes-Letter.tex"
+%   # "annexes-A4.tex"
+%
+%  to generate the "JACoW_LaTeX_Letter.pdf" or "JACoW_LaTeX_A4.pdf" uncomment
+%  all line with "%===" (3 in total)
 %
 \documentclass[a4paper,
                %boxit,        % check whether paper is inside correct margins
                %titlepage,    % separate title page
                %refpage       % separate references
                %biblatex,     % biblatex is used
-               keeplastbox,   % flushend option: not to un-indent last line in References
-               %nospread,     % flushend option: do not fill with whitespace to balance columns
+               nospread,     % flushend option: do not fill with whitespace to balance columns
                %hyphens,      % allow \url to hyphenate at "-" (hyphens)
                %xetex,        % use XeLaTeX to process the file
                %luatex,       % use LuaLaTeX to process the file
@@ -22,7 +40,7 @@
 %
 % ONLY FOR \footnote in table/tabular
 %
-\usepackage{pdfpages,multirow,ragged2e} %
+%===\usepackage{pdfpages,multirow,ragged2e} %
 %
 % CHANGE SEQUENCE OF GRAPHICS EXTENSION TO BE EMBEDDED
 % ----------------------------------------------------
@@ -67,7 +85,7 @@
 
 \begin{document}
 
-\title{preparation OF papers for \NoCaseChange{JACoW} conferences\thanks{Work supported by ...}}
+\title{preparation OF papers\\ for \NoCaseChange{JACoW} conferences\thanks{Work supported by ...}}
 
 \author{A. N. Author\thanks{email address}, H. Coauthor, Name of Institute or Affiliation, City, Country \\
 		P. Contributor\textsuperscript{1}, Name of Institute or Affiliation, City, Country \\
@@ -75,7 +93,6 @@
 	
 \maketitle
 
-%
 \begin{abstract}
    Many conference series have adopted the same standards
    for electronic publication and have joined the Joint
@@ -118,7 +135,7 @@ requirements. Manuscripts should have:
     \item  Single-spaced text in two columns of \SI{82.5}{mm} (\SI{3.25}{in}) with \SI{5.3}{mm}
            (\SI{0.2}{in}) separation. More recent versions of Microsoft Word have a default spacing of 1.5 lines;
            authors must change this to 1 line.
-    \item  The text located within the margins specified in Table~\ref{l2ea4-t1}.
+    \item  The text located within the margins specified in Table~\ref{tab:margins}.
 \end{Itemize}
 \begin{table}[!hbt]
    \centering
@@ -163,11 +180,11 @@ text (which should flow from top to bottom in each column).
 
 \begin{figure*}[!tbh]
     \centering
-    \includegraphics*[width=\textwidth]{JACpic2}
+    \includegraphics*[width=\textwidth]{TeamMeeting2019}
 
     \caption{Example of a full-width figure showing the JACoW Team at their annual
-    	     meeting in December 2018. This figure has a multi-line caption that has to be
-    	     justified rather than centred.}
+    	     meeting in December 2019 in Santos, Brazil. This figure has a multi-line 
+    	     caption that has to be justified rather than centred.}
     \label{fig:jacow_team}
 \end{figure*}
 
@@ -433,6 +450,7 @@ Authors are requested to go over the following checklist for electronic publicat
 
 Please also check the list of common oversights which can be found in \textbf{ANNEX C}.
 
+\flushcolsend
 \section{CONCLUSION}
 
 Any conclusions should be in a separate section directly preceding
@@ -478,8 +496,8 @@ this should be the last section of the paper.
 % for use as JACoW template the inclusion of the ANNEX parts have been commented out
 % to generate the complete documentation please remove the "%" of the next two commands
 % 
-%%%\newpage
+%===\newpage
 
-%%%\include{annexes-A4}
+%===\include{annexes-A4}
 
 \end{document}
diff --git a/macros/latex/contrib/jacow/JACoW_LaTeX_Letter.pdf b/macros/latex/contrib/jacow/JACoW_LaTeX_Letter.pdf
index 50dab6fe47..62463719d8 100644
--- a/macros/latex/contrib/jacow/JACoW_LaTeX_Letter.pdf
+++ b/macros/latex/contrib/jacow/JACoW_LaTeX_Letter.pdf
diff --git a/macros/latex/contrib/jacow/JACoW_LaTeX_Letter.tex b/macros/latex/contrib/jacow/JACoW_LaTeX_Letter.tex
index 1513cfabae..6da67fa07a 100644
--- a/macros/latex/contrib/jacow/JACoW_LaTeX_Letter.tex
+++ b/macros/latex/contrib/jacow/JACoW_LaTeX_Letter.tex
@@ -1,21 +1,38 @@
+%
+%%%% !BIB TS-program = biber
+%%%% !BIB program = biber
+% !BIB TS-program = bibtex
+% !BIB program = bibtex
 % !TeX spellcheck = en_US
+% !TeX program = lualatex
+%
+% v 2.7  Feb 2022   Volker RW Schaa
+%   
+%  maintenance release to fix problems with changes in required package
+%  - Option "keeplastbox" deprecated in "flushend"
+%  - Option "binary-units" removed from "siunitx"
+%  - Option "detect-mode" deprecated in "siunitx" release: v3.0.32
+%    Use "mode=match" as a replacement.
+%  - Option "detect-weight" deprecated in "siunitx" release: v3.0.32
+%    Use "reset-text-series=false, text-series-to-math=true" as a replacement.
+%  - "fixltx2e" is not required with releases after 2015
+%  - "ifluatex" and "ifxetex" dropped for "iftex"
+%  - some biblatex macros addded to achieve better JACoW reference formatting 
 %
+%  no changes in
+%	# "jacow-collaboration.tex"
+%   # "annexes-Letter.tex"
+%   # "annexes-A4.tex"
 %
-% v 2.3  Feb 2019   Volker RW Schaa
-%		# changes in the collaboration therefore updated file "jacow-collaboration.tex"
-%		# all References with DOIs have their period/full stop before the DOI (after pp. or year)
-%		# in the author/affiliation block all ZIP codes in square brackets removed as it was not 
-%         understood as optional parameter and ZIP codes had bin put in brackets
-%       # References to the current IPAC are changed to "IPAC'19, Melbourne, Australia"
-%       # font for "url" style changed to "newtxtt" as it is easier to distinguish "O" and "0"
+%  to generate the "JACoW_LaTeX_Letter.pdf" or "JACoW_LaTeX_A4.pdf" uncomment
+%  all line with "%===" (3 in total)
 %
-\documentclass[letter,
+\documentclass[letterpaper,
                %boxit,        % check whether paper is inside correct margins
                %titlepage,    % separate title page
                %refpage       % separate references
                %biblatex,     % biblatex is used
-               keeplastbox,   % flushend option: not to un-indent last line in References
-               %nospread,     % flushend option: do not fill with whitespace to balance columns
+               nospread,     % flushend option: do not fill with whitespace to balance columns
                %hyphens,      % allow \url to hyphenate at "-" (hyphens)
                %xetex,        % use XeLaTeX to process the file
                %luatex,       % use LuaLaTeX to process the file
@@ -23,7 +40,7 @@
 %
 % ONLY FOR \footnote in table/tabular
 %
-\usepackage{pdfpages,multirow,ragged2e} %
+%===\usepackage{pdfpages,multirow,ragged2e} %
 %
 % CHANGE SEQUENCE OF GRAPHICS EXTENSION TO BE EMBEDDED
 % ----------------------------------------------------
@@ -50,7 +67,6 @@
 
 \usepackage[USenglish]{babel}
 
-
 %
 % if BibLaTeX is used
 %
@@ -69,7 +85,7 @@
 
 \begin{document}
 
-\title{preparation OF papers for \NoCaseChange{JACoW} conferences\thanks{Work supported by ...}}
+\title{preparation OF papers\\ for \NoCaseChange{JACoW} conferences\thanks{Work supported by ...}}
 
 \author{A. N. Author\thanks{email address}, H. Coauthor, Name of Institute or Affiliation, City, Country \\
 		P. Contributor\textsuperscript{1}, Name of Institute or Affiliation, City, Country \\
@@ -77,7 +93,6 @@
 	
 \maketitle
 
-%
 \begin{abstract}
    Many conference series have adopted the same standards
    for electronic publication and have joined the Joint
@@ -142,14 +157,14 @@ requirements. Manuscripts should have:
 
 In order to produce good Adobe Acrobat PDF files, authors
 using the `jacow' \LaTeX{} template are asked to use only the fonts
-defined in the `jacow' class file (v2.3 of 2019/01/15) in standard, 
+defined in the ‘jacow’ class file (v2.3 of 2019/01/15) in standard, 
 bold (i.\,e., \verb|\textbf|) or italic (i.\,e., \verb|\textit|) form and
 symbols from the standard set of fonts. In Word use only
 Symbol and, depending on your platform, Times or Times New Roman
 fonts in standard, bold or italic form.
 
 The layout of the text on the page is illustrated in
-Fig.~\ref{fig:paper_layout}. Note that the paper's title and the author list should
+Fig.~\ref{fig:paper_layout}. Note that the paper’s title and the author list should
 be the width of the full page. Tables and figures may span
 the whole \SI{170}{mm} page width, if desired (see Fig.~\ref{fig:jacow_team}), but
 if they span both columns, they should be placed at either
@@ -165,11 +180,11 @@ text (which should flow from top to bottom in each column).
 
 \begin{figure*}[!tbh]
     \centering
-    \includegraphics*[width=\textwidth]{JACpic2}
+    \includegraphics*[width=\textwidth]{TeamMeeting2019}
 
     \caption{Example of a full-width figure showing the JACoW Team at their annual
-    	     meeting in December 2018. This figure has a multi-line caption that has to be
-    	     justified rather than centred.} %US
+    	     meeting in December 2019 in Santos, Brazil. This figure has a multi-line 
+    	     caption that has to be justified rather than centred.}
     \label{fig:jacow_team}
 \end{figure*}
 
@@ -248,8 +263,8 @@ caption itself.
 
 Single-line captions are centered in the column, while captions
 that span more than one line should be justified.
-The \LaTeX{} template uses the “booktabs” package to
-format tables.
+The \LaTeX{} template uses the ‘booktabs’ package to
+format tables. 
 
 When referring to a figure from within the text, the
 convention is to use the abbreviated form [e.\,g., Fig.~1]
@@ -277,7 +292,7 @@ achieved in \LaTeX{} using \verb|\eqref{eq:label}|.
 Units should be written using the standard, roman font,
 not the italic font, as shown in Eq.~\eqref{eq:label}.
 An unbreakable space should precede a unit (in \LaTeX{} use a “\verb|\,|”,
-the template uses the “siunitx” package to format units).
+the template uses the ‘siunitx’ package to format units).
 Some examples are: \SI{3}{keV},
 \SI{100}{kW}, \SI{7}{µm}. When a unit appears in a hyphenated,
 compound adjective that precedes a noun, it takes on the
@@ -299,7 +314,7 @@ with ranges where appropriate~[1--4, 10].
 A URL or DOI may be included as part of a reference, but its
 hyperlink should NOT be added. The usual practice is to
 use a monospaced font for the URL so as to help distinguish
-it from normal text. In \LaTeX{} the “url” package is used with its 
+it from normal text. In \LaTeX{} the ‘url’ package is used with its 
 default font now being switched to ``newtxtt'' which offers
 a better distinction between ``\texttt{O}'' and ``\texttt{0}''.
 
@@ -357,7 +372,7 @@ and properly formatted references.
 		Captions      &                             &                 &      \\[5pt]
 		%\midrule
 		Table         & \SI{10}{pt}                 & $\ge$\SI{3}{pt} & \SI{3}{pt}  \\
-		Captions	  &                             &                 &      \\[5pt]
+		Captions      &                             &                 &      \\[5pt]
 		%\midrule
 		Equations     & \SI{10}{pt} base font       & $\ge$\SI{6}{pt}     & $\ge$\SI{6}{pt} \\[5pt]
 		%\midrule
@@ -391,7 +406,7 @@ both in the abstract and in the rest of the paper.
 
 Table~\ref{tab:styles} summarizes the fonts and spacing used in the styles of
 a JACoW template. In \LaTeX, these 
-are implemented in the “jacow” class file.
+are implemented in the ‘jacow’ class file.
 
 \section{PAGE NUMBERS}
 
@@ -435,6 +450,7 @@ Authors are requested to go over the following checklist for electronic publicat
 
 Please also check the list of common oversights which can be found in \textbf{ANNEX C}.
 
+\flushcolsend
 \section{CONCLUSION}
 
 Any conclusions should be in a separate section directly preceding
@@ -476,13 +492,12 @@ this should be the last section of the paper.
 
 	\end{thebibliography}
 } % end \ifboolexpr
-
 %
 % for use as JACoW template the inclusion of the ANNEX parts have been commented out
 % to generate the complete documentation please remove the "%" of the next two commands
 % 
-%%%%\newpage
+%===\newpage
 
-%%%%\include{annexes-Letter}
+%===\include{annexes-Letter}
 
 \end{document}
diff --git a/macros/latex/contrib/jacow/JACpic2.jpg b/macros/latex/contrib/jacow/JACpic2.jpg
deleted file mode 100644
index dc611f7918..0000000000
--- a/macros/latex/contrib/jacow/JACpic2.jpg
+++ /dev/null
diff --git a/macros/latex/contrib/jacow/README b/macros/latex/contrib/jacow/README
index 1680a41447..bb6596fd7c 100644
--- a/macros/latex/contrib/jacow/README
+++ b/macros/latex/contrib/jacow/README
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ Class File: jacow.cls
 Authors:    John Jowett (CERN), Michel Goossens (CERN), 
             Martin Comyn (TRIUMF), John Poole (CERN), Todd Satogata (BNL), 
             Ulrike Fischer, Volker RW Schaa (GSI)
-Version:    2.4
-Date:       01 April 2019
-Copyright:  1996-2019 by JACoW, Geneva, Switzerland
+Version:    2.7 (maintenance release)
+Date:       02 Februar 2022
+Copyright:  1996-2022 by JACoW, Geneva, Switzerland
 Homepage:   http://www.jacow.org
 License:    LPPL 1.3c
 Status:     Maintained
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ particular requirements for electronic publication at www.JACoW.org.
 
 The package consists of the following files
   class file
-    jacow.cls               JACoW class file v2.4 of 2019/04/01
+    jacow.cls               JACoW class file v2.7 of 2022/02/02
 
   templates
     JACoW_LaTeX_A4.tex      basic A4/letter templates to demonstrate the
@@ -57,9 +57,9 @@ The package consists of the following files
   figures/includes
     JACpic_mc.pdf           a graphic showing the JACoW page format 
                             (being the smaller side of A4 and letter respectively)
-    JACpic2.jpg             a graphic for a full width figure (spanning
+    TeamMeeting2019.jpg      a graphic for a full width figure (spanning
                             the two columns and multiline caption) showing
-                            the participants of the 2017 JACoW Team Meeting
+                            the participants of the 2019 JACoW Team Meeting
 
    jacow-collaboration.tex  (an example) title page showing the JACoW Collaboration. 
    jacow-collaboration.pdf  This PDF is included in Annex A.
diff --git a/macros/latex/contrib/jacow/TeamMeeting2019.jpg b/macros/latex/contrib/jacow/TeamMeeting2019.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..43e4a253a5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/macros/latex/contrib/jacow/TeamMeeting2019.jpg
diff --git a/macros/latex/contrib/jacow/jacow.cls b/macros/latex/contrib/jacow/jacow.cls
index 36df55ad00..2f560b4164 100644
--- a/macros/latex/contrib/jacow/jacow.cls
+++ b/macros/latex/contrib/jacow/jacow.cls
@@ -15,18 +15,18 @@
 %%    http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt
 %% and version 1.3 or later is part of all distributions of
 %% LaTeX version 2005/12/01 or later.
-%% 
+%%
 %% This work has the LPPL maintenance status "maintained".
-%% 
+%%
 %% This Current Maintainer of this work is Volker RW Schaa.
-%% 
+%%
 %% This work consists of the following files
 %%    jacow.cls               this class file
-%%    JACoW_LaTeX_A4.tex      A4/letter templates to demonstrate the 
+%%    JACoW_LaTeX_A4.tex      A4/letter templates to demonstrate the
 %%    JACoW_LaTeX_Letter.tex  .. use and explain the various parameters
 %%                            .. and settings for a submission to
 %%                            .. a JACoW conference proceedings
-%%    JACoW_LaTeX_A4.pdf      template in format A4 and European 
+%%    JACoW_LaTeX_A4.pdf      template in format A4 and European
 %%                            settings (citation and hyphenation)
 %%    JACoW_LaTeX_Letter.pdf  template in format letter and American
 %%                            setting (citation and hyphenation)
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
 %%                             editors for the various platform
 %%                            dependent templates (LaTeX, Word on PC and
 %%                            Mac, ODF). The PDF is included in the template
-%% 
+%%
 %
 %  v0.1 to 1.3 : JAC2000.cls
 %  Special thanks to John Jowett and Michel Goossens from CERN and
@@ -104,17 +104,17 @@
 %                                                   Volker RW Schaa, 02 May 2014
 %
 % v1.95
-% - only change to the version 1.94 are the extended documenation and license
+% - only change to the version 1.94 are the extended documentation and license
 %   statement (lppl1.3c) as preparation for publication on CTAN.
 %                                                   Volker RW Schaa, 02 May 2014
 %
 % v1.96
-% - modification of bibatex style information. Since the JACoW template Feb-2016 
+% - modification of bibatex style information. Since the JACoW template Feb-2016
 %   the bibliography requires the IEEEtran style. Heine provided an adapted
 %   version using the required values of the template:
 %   + ieee biblatex style instead of numeric-compv
 %   + doi field is cleared for all entries
-%   + et al. is used when there are > 6 authors (maxnames=6). In that case, 
+%   + et al. is used when there are > 6 authors (maxnames=6). In that case,
 %     only the first author is mentioned (minnames=1)
 %   + url field is cleared for articles and inproceedings
 %   + giveninits=true reduces all given names to initials
@@ -146,15 +146,34 @@
 % v2.4
 % - version 2.3 did not work for XeTeX/LuaTeX, therefore font change using
 %   \def\UrlFont and switching the fontencoding to T1 (suggested by Ulrike Fischer)
-% - package amsmath included to provide 
+% - package amsmath included to provide
 %                                                  Volker RW Schaa, 01 Apr 2019
+%% v2.5
+% - flushend dropped the option keeplastbox, therefore removed from jacow package
+%   option list
+% - Option "binary-units" has been removed from siunitx release.
+% - Option "detect-mode" has been deprecated in this (siunitx) release: v3.0.32
+%        Use "mode=match" as a replacement.
+% - Option "detect-weight" has been deprecated in this (siunitx) release: v3.0.32
+%        Use "reset-text-series=false, text-series-to-math=true" as a replacement.
+% - fixltx2e is not required with releases after 2015
+%                                                  Volker RW Schaa, 14 Oct 2021
+%% v2.6
+% - ifluatex/ifxetex dropped for iftex
+%                                                  Volker RW Schaa, 11 Nov 2021
 %
-\def\fileversion{2.4}
-\def\filedate{2019/04/01}
-\def\docdate {2019/04/01}
+%% v2.7
+% - addded some biblatex macros to achieve closer JACoW reference formatting 
+%   than standard ieeetran 
+%                                                  Volker RW Schaa, 02 Feb 2022
+%
+%
+\def\fileversion{2.7}
+\def\filedate{2022/02/02}
+\def\docdate {2022/02/02}
 
 \NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}
-\ProvidesClass{jacow}[\filedate\space Version \fileversion]
+\ProvidesClass{jacow}[\filedate\space v\fileversion fixes for siunitx, stfloats, biblatex ref formatting] 
 
 \typeout{------------------------------------------------------------------------}
 \typeout{LaTeX2e Class file for Accelerator Conference publication for LaTeX2e users}
@@ -197,11 +216,10 @@
 
 \RequirePackage{fix-cm}
 \LoadClass[10pt,twocolumn]{article}
-\RequirePackage[keeplastbox]{flushend} %% modified
+\RequirePackage[]{flushend} %% modified 2.5
 % Tools:
 \RequirePackage{etoolbox}
-\RequirePackage{ifxetex}
-\RequirePackage{ifluatex}
+\RequirePackage{iftex}
 \RequirePackage{textcase}
 %
 %Add thanks to the list of "\@nonchangecase"-commands from textcase:
@@ -222,8 +240,14 @@
       \protected@edef\reserved@a{\endgroup
           \noexpand\@skipmath#3#4$\valign$}%
       \reserved@a}
-
-\RequirePackage[detect-mode,detect-weight, binary-units=true]{siunitx}
+%
+% Option "binary-units" has been removed from (siunitx)
+% Option "detect-mode" has been deprecated in this (siunitx) release: v3.0.32
+%        Use "mode=match" as a replacement.
+% Option "detect-weight" has been deprecated in this (siunitx) release: v3.0.32
+%        Use "reset-text-series=false, text-series-to-math=true" as a replacement.
+%
+\RequirePackage[mode=match, reset-text-series=false, text-series-to-math=true]{siunitx}
 \RequirePackage{graphicx}
 \RequirePackage{booktabs}
 \RequirePackage[figureposition=bottom,tableposition=top,skip=5pt]{caption}
@@ -264,7 +288,7 @@
  {}
  { \catcode`\^^^=9
  }
- 
+
 \ifboolexpr{bool{xetex} or bool{luatex}}
  { \let\ori@vdots\vdots
    \RequirePackage{unicode-math}
@@ -428,16 +452,110 @@
 %% when to activate this? Paper format acus/letter
 %  \DefineBibliographyExtras{american}{\stdpunctuation} % mod
   % Drop urls for article and inproceedings entries
-%2.00  \DeclareFieldFormat
-%2.00  [article,inproceedings]
-%2.00  {url}{}
+%2.7
+% check https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/6743/biblatex-changing-the-order-of-entries
+%       https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12806/guidelines-for-customizing-biblatex-styles/13076#13076  
+%       https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/10203/biblatex-putting-thin-spaces-between-initials
+%       https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/560346/how-to-suppress-annotation-field-from-bbl-file-in-biblatex
+%       https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/496995/advanced-introduction-to-biblatex-coding-guidelines-for-database
+%-------------------------------------
+%
+% if BibLaTeX is used
+%
+% modify macros so the formatted output corresponds to JACoW's idea of IEEEtran
+    % set vertical distance between items
+   	\setlength\bibitemsep{3pt plus 1.5pt minus 0.5pt}
+    % remove stretchability from biblatex URLs/DOIs
+ 	\toks0\expandafter{\biburlsetup}\edef\biburlsetup{\the\toks0 \Urlmuskip =0mu\relax}
+ 	% Removing period after DOI
+ 	\renewcommand*{\finentrypunct}{\ifboolexpr{togl {bbx:doi} and not test {\iffieldundef{doi}}}{}{\addperiod}}
+  	% format doi: as part of the link using the same font
+  	\DeclareFieldFormat{doi}{%
+ 	  \ifhyperref
+ 	    {\href{https://doi.org/#1}{\nolinkurl{#1}}}
+ 	    {\nolinkurl{doi:#1}}%
+ 	}
+	%
+	% make sure that there is no break between initial and lastname
+	% and thinspaces between muliple initials
+	%
+	\renewcommand*\bibnamedelimd{~}
+	\renewcommand\bibinitdelim{\addnbthinspace}
+	%
+ 	% format venue, event, date without round brackets
+    % https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/446732/biblatex-field-venueeventdate-without-round-brackets
+ 	\renewbibmacro*{event+venue+date}{%
+ 	    \printfield{eventtitle}%
+ 	    \newunit
+ 	    \printfield{eventtitleaddon}%
+ 	    \newunit
+ 	    \printfield{venue}%
+ 	    \setunit*{\addcomma\space}%
+ 	    \printeventdate%
+ 	    \newunit%
+ 	}
+  	\DeclareFieldFormat{eid}{%
+  	    {paper #1}%
+  	}
+ 	%
+ 	\renewbibmacro*{volume+number+eid}{%
+ 	  \printfield{volume}%
+ 	  \newunit
+ 	  \printfield{number}%    
+ 	  \newunit
+ 	  \printfield{eid}%
+ 	}
+ 	%
+ 	% Clean up the bibtex rather than editing it for extensive JACoW BibTeX records
+ 	%
+ 	\AtEveryBibitem{% 
+ 	 \clearlist{address}
+ 	 \clearfield{date}
+ 	 \clearfield{eprint}
+ 	 \clearfield{isbn}
+ 	 \clearfield{issn}
+ 	 %
+ 	 % use/print "note" if "booktitle" is not given: example "data for this conference"
+     %
+ 	 \iffieldundef{booktitle}{}{\clearfield{note}} 
+ 	 \clearlist{location}
+ 	 \clearfield{month}
+ 	 \clearfield{series}
+ 	 \ifentrytype{book}{}{% Remove publisher and editor except for books
+ 	  \clearlist{publisher}
+ 	  \clearname{editor}
+ 	 }
+ 	}
+	%
+	% print url if no doi
+	%
+ 	\renewbibmacro*{doi+eprint+url}{%
+ 	    \printfield{doi}%
+ 	    \newunit\newblock%
+ 	    \iftoggle{bbx:eprint}{%
+ 	        \usebibmacro{eprint}%
+ 	    }{}%
+ 	    \newunit\newblock%
+ 	    \iffieldundef{doi}{%
+ 	        \usebibmacro{url+urldate}}%
+ 	        {}%
+ 	}
+ 	% format ISSN like URLs
+  	\DeclareFieldFormat{issn}{%
+  	    {\texttt{ISSN:#1}}%
+  	}
+ 	% format ISSN like URLs
+  	\DeclareFieldFormat{issn}{%
+  	    {\texttt{ISSN:#1}}%
+  	}
   %
   \setlength\bibitemsep{0pt}
   \setlength\bibparsep{0pt}
   \setlength\biblabelsep{5pt}
   \ifjacowrefpage\preto\blx@bibliography{\clearpage}\fi
   \AtBeginBibliography{\small\clubpenalty4000\widowpenalty4000}%
- }
+ } % end if biblatex
+ %
  {\RequirePackage{cite}
   % Redefine to use smaller fonts
   \def\thebibliography#1{\setlength{\itemsep}{0pt}\setlength{\parsep}{0pt}%
@@ -461,7 +579,7 @@
 
 %avoid bug of fixltx2e:
 %http://www.latex-project.org/cgi-bin/ltxbugs2html?pr=latex/4023
-\RequirePackage{fixltx2e}%
+%\RequirePackage{fixltx2e}%
 \def\@outputdblcol{%
   \if@firstcolumn
     \global\@firstcolumnfalse