A Sample ACM SIG Proceedings Paper in LaTeX Format
[Extended Abstract]
‡
Ben Trovato
Institute for Clarity in
Documentation
1932 Wallamaloo Lane
Wallamaloo, New Zealand
†
§
¶
G.K.M. Tobin
Lars Thørväld
Institute for Clarity in
Documentation
P.O. Box 1212
Dublin, Ohio 43017-6221
[email protected]
Lawrence P. Leipuner
[email protected]
Sean Fogarty
Brookhaven Laboratories
Brookhaven National Lab
P.O. Box 5000
NASA Ames Research Center
Moffett Field
California 94035
Palmer Research Laboratories
8600 Datapoint Drive
San Antonio, Texas 78229
[email protected]
∗
[email protected][email protected]
The Thørväld Group
1 Thørväld Circle
Hekla, Iceland
Charles Palmer
[email protected]
ABSTRACT
Categories and Subject Descriptors
This paper provides a sample of a LATEX document which
conforms to the formatting guidelines for ACM SIG Proceedings. It complements the document Author’s Guide to
Preparing ACM SIG Proceedings Using LATEX2 and BibTEX.
This source file has been written with the intention of being
compiled under LATEX2 and BibTeX.
H.4 [Information Systems Applications]: Miscellaneous;
D.2.8 [Software Engineering]: Metrics—complexity measures, performance measures
The developers have tried to include every imaginable sort
of “bells and whistles", such as a subtitle, footnotes on title, subtitle and authors, as well as in the text, and every
optional component (e.g. Acknowledgments, Additional Authors, Appendices), not to mention examples of equations,
theorems, tables and figures.
To make best use of this sample document, run it through
LATEX and BibTeX, and compare this source code with the
printed output produced by the dvi file.
∗(Does NOT produce the permission block, copyright
information nor page numbering).
For use with
ACM_PROC_ARTICLE-SP.CLS. Supported by ACM.
†A full version of this paper is available as Author’s Guide to
Preparing ACM SIG Proceedings Using LATEX2 and BibTeX
at www.acm.org/eaddress.htm
‡Dr. Trovato insisted his name be first.
§The secretary disavows any knowledge of this author’s actions.
¶This author is the one who did all the really hard work.
General Terms
Theory
Keywords
ACM proceedings, LATEX, text tagging
1.
INTRODUCTION
The proceedings are the records of a conference. ACM seeks
to give these conference by-products a uniform, high-quality
appearance. To do this, ACM has some rigid requirements
for the format of the proceedings documents: there is a specified format (balanced double columns), a specified set of
fonts (Arial or Helvetica and Times Roman) in certain specified sizes (for instance, 9 point for body copy), a specified
live area (18 × 23.5 cm [7" × 9.25"]) centered on the page,
specified size of margins (1.9 cm [0.75"]) top, (2.54 cm [1"])
bottom and (1.9 cm [.75"]) left and right; specified column
width (8.45 cm [3.33"]) and gutter size (.83 cm [.33"]).
The good news is, with only a handful of manual settings1 ,
the LATEX document class file handles all of this for you.
The remainder of this document is concerned with showing,
in the context of an “actual” document, the LATEX commands
specifically available for denoting the structure of a proceedings paper, rather than with giving rigorous descriptions or
explanations of such commands.
1
Two of these, the \numberofauthors and \alignauthor
commands,
you
have
already
used;
another,
\balancecolumns, will be used in your very last run
of LATEX to ensure balanced column heights on the last
page.