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Hi Joris.

You can find attached my tiny style class that I recently used to submit a paper to the ACM Workshop on Generic Programming. It is certainly incomplete; however, I have not been able to find a detailed English description of the so called "ACM style" (and neither were the conference chairs), nor do I know LaTeX (and I don't want to know LaTeX) well enough to really understand what is going on in their style file. Maybe my attachment can be used as a start. (One notable omission is the ACM copyright notice.)

Granted my paper wasn't published (even though it was accepted), but the reasons for not publishing were unrelated to layout.

HTH.

On Wed, 19 Oct 2011, Joris van der Hoeven wrote:

Hi David,

The simplest thing that you can already do is export your TeXmacs document
to LaTeX, modify the style class and meta info so as to conform to your
"favorite" journal's requirements. We also have a running job offer for
someone
who wants to improve the LaTeX import/export converters in a systematic way.

Of course, I also urge all TeXmacs users to bluntly send TeXmacs files
to journals and complain if these files are not accepted; after all,
it is their job to get the typesetting right.

Notice also that, for submissions, you can usually send a Pdf file
right away, as soon as the length is correct, roughly speaking.

Best, --Joris



On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 12:57:19PM -0400, David G. Wonnacott wrote:

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

--
Russell O'Connor <http://r6.ca/>
``All talk about `theft,''' the general counsel of the American Graphophone
Company wrote, ``is the merest claptrap, for there exists no property in
ideas musical, literary or artistic, except as defined by statute.''<TeXmacs|1.0.7>

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<\body>

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