A Sample ACM SIG Proceedings Paper in LaTeX Format ∗ [ Extended Abstract ] †
Ben Trovato ‡ Institute for Clarity in Documentation 1932 Wallamaloo Lane Wallamaloo , New Zealand trovato @ corporation . com
Lawrence P . Leipuner
Brookhaven Laboratories Brookhaven National Lab P . O . Box 5000 lleipuner @ researchlabs . org
G . K . M . Tobin §
Institute for Clarity in Documentation P . O . Box 1212 Dublin , Ohio 43017-6221
webmaster @ marysvilleohio . com
Sean Fogarty NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field California 94035 fogartys @ amesres . org
Lars Thørväld ¶
The Thørväld Group 1 Thørväld Circle Hekla , Iceland larst @ affiliation . org
Charles Palmer Palmer Research Laboratories 8600 Datapoint Drive San Antonio , Texas 78229 cpalmer @ prl . com
ABSTRACT
This paper provides a sample of a L A TEX document which conforms to the formatting guidelines for ACM SIG Proceedings . It complements the document Author ’ s Guide to Preparing ACM SIG Proceedings Using L A TEX2 ɛ and BibTEX . This source file has been written with the intention of being compiled under L A TEX2 ɛ and BibTeX .
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 L A TEX 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 L A TEX2 ɛ 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 .
Categories and Subject Descriptors
H . 4 [ Information Systems Applications ]: Miscellaneous ; D . 2.8 [ Software Engineering ]: Metrics — complexity measures , performance measures
General Terms
Theory
Keywords
ACM proceedings , L A TEX , 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 settings 1 , the L A TEX 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 L A TEX 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 L A TEX to ensure balanced column heights on the last page .