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["David G. Wonnacott" <address@hidden>]

Hi TeXmacs community,

I've just finished another round of happily using TeXmacs to write up 
several documents for which I can largely control the formatting and for 
which I can produce a .pdf file. But the recent question about LaTeX 
imports got me thinking about a problem I'm having that's keeping me 
from using TeXmacs. Specifically, publishers who define a required style 
might provide MS Word templates (ugh) or, if I'm lucky, a LaTeX class. 
As far as I know, none provides a TeXmacs style. I am running 
experiments this week that might give me something worth submitting to 
PLDI (it's been a long time since I've done so).

Thus, with any luck I'll soon need to either
  (a) cope with LaTeX, possibly by trying one of the WYSIWYG's for it 
(not ready for prime time when I checked quite a few years ago and 
adopted TeXmacs), or
  (b) try to manually conform to the ACM SIGPLAN style defined at 
http://www.sigplan.org/authorInformation.htm, possibly by writing a 
TeXmacs style file for it.

I'm hesitant to do (b), partly because I've had trouble switching 
between single- and double-column layouts in TeXmacs and I think the 
style involves two columns for most of the paper but *not* for the 
title, authors, and perhaps the abstract.

I tried importing into TeXmacs the LaTeX template document that is 
distributed an example of the style, but it didn't look much like the 
output of pdflatex on this file.

Would anyone care to
  (1) produce an ACM SIGPLAN texmacs style as a service to authors, and 
to help increase acceptance/use of TeXmacs,
  (2) reassure me about switches between different numbers of columns, or
  (3) suggest a LaTeX WYSIWIG (I hate all the rounds of tweaking 
numbers and watching it re-render, but could try to remember how to use 
LaTeX if I had to...)

These are listed in order of preference, but #1 of course requires 
someone better at TeXmacs styles than I am. I have dabbled a bit but am 
not confident enough to put these in the public sphere and I need to 
focus on research and the writeup thereof, not on configuring TeXmacs.

At some point, I may need to export the result of my editing as a LaTeX 
document, but this would only happen if I'm accepted, and if that were 
to happen I'd be so happy I'd re-type the whole thing into LaTeX if 
necessary (just as long as they don't make me use MS Word).

Thanks for any help anyone can give,
    Dave W