[Tex/LaTex] Springer Nature LaTeX Template and Tikz Issue

templatestikz-pgf

The springer latex template is not working with Tikz.
Link: https://www.springernature.com/gp/authors/campaigns/latex-author-support
Output error:

l.16 \input
            pgfmathfunctions.code.tex
! Missing \endcsname inserted.
<to be read again> 
                   \let

MWE:

\documentclass[referee,sn-basic]{sn-jnl}

\jyear{2021}%

\usepackage{tikz}

\begin{document}

\title[Article Title]{Article Title}

\author*[1,2]{\fnm{First} \sur{Author}}\email{iauthor@gmail.com}

\affil*[1]{\orgdiv{Department}, \orgname{Organization}, \orgaddress{\street{Street}, \city{City}, \postcode{100190}, \state{State}, \country{Country}}}

\affil[2]{\orgdiv{Department}, \orgname{Organization}, \orgaddress{\street{Street}, \city{City}, \postcode{10587}, \state{State}, \country{Country}}}


\abstract{abc}

\maketitle

\section{Introduction}\label{sec1}


\end{document}

Best Answer

As Simon posted a second before me:-) This can be simplified to


\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{program}
%\catcode`\|=12\relax

\usepackage{tikz}



\begin{document}



\end{document}

The program package makes | active already in the preamble which is rather optimistic, uncommenting the catcode setting restores the standard behaviour. this is probably preferable than using a local copy of the class that will not work for submission.

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The journal recommend using either the article, revtex or amsart document classes. They say the following:

TeX/LaTeX - Authors submitting LaTeX files may use any of the standard class files such as article.cls, revtex.cls or amsart.cls. Non-standard fonts should be avoided; please use the default Computer Modern fonts. For the inclusion of graphics, we recommend graphicx.sty. Please use numerical references only for citations. References should be included within the manuscript file itself as our system cannot accept BibTeX bibliography files. Authors who wish to use BibTeX to prepare their references should therefore copy the reference list from the .bbl file that BibTeX generates and paste it into the main manuscript .tex file (and delete the associated \bibliography and \bibliographystyle commands). As a final precaution, authors should ensure that the complete .tex file compiles successfully on their own system with no errors or warnings, before submission.

All details for submitting an article to Scientific Reports can be found here.

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I expect that the dimensions of the text body are chosen on purpose. Filling a complete A4 (or letter) paper would either require

very long lines ⇒ poor readability; or
quite large margins ⇒ ineffective high paper costs).

Therefore I assume that the one-column layout is intended for a final paper size that is smaller than A4 (or letter). And I expect that the large margins on the right and the bottom are automatically removed by the journal.

If you want to review a more symmetrical page layout, then the large margins can be reduced to the amount of their counterparts. The following code can be put at the beginning of the file (e.g. template.tex). Before submitting, I would remove it. Package geometry does not change the layout, if option pass is given. But the package tells the page dimensions to the output driver (\pdfpagewidth/\pdfpageheight for pdfTeX, LuaTeX, XeTeX; \special{papersize=...} for dvips, ...).

\AtBeginDocument{%
  \paperwidth=\dimexpr
    1in + \oddsidemargin
    + \textwidth
    % + \marginparsep + \marginparwidth
    + 1in + \oddsidemargin
  \relax
  \paperheight=\dimexpr
    1in + \topmargin
    + \headheight + \headsep
    + \textheight
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    + 1in + \topmargin
  \relax
  \usepackage[pass]{geometry}\relax
}

The final paper size is now about 169.3 mm × 247.4 mm.

Or the original document can be included in a print document via pdfpages. Options trim control the removed margins. Also the page can be scaled to the output page size A4:

\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{pdfpages}

% \extratrim is removed from the margins at each side
\newlength{\extratrim}
\setlength{\extratrim}{10mm}

\newcommand*{\trimexpr}[1]{\dimexpr(#1)+\extratrim\relax}

\begin{document}
  \includepdf[
    pages=-,
    trim=\trimexpr{0mm} \trimexpr{49.6mm} \trimexpr{40.7mm} \trimexpr{0mm},
  ]{template.pdf}
\end{document}

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