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Oops, I should have sent this to David instead of Joris.  I got the 
authors in this thread confused.

On Wed, 19 Oct 2011, address@hidden wrote:

> 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

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