orgmode-ACM-template

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• Migrating ACM LaTeX template to Org-mode

** Purpose

Whenever someone wants to hand in a white paper for a conference which requires using ACM LaTeX template, I want to use an Org-mode file instead. With the Org-mode LaTeX exporter (the current one and/or the new one) is should be possible to generate compatible TeX and PDF output.

** Template Source

http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates

** Additional requirements

The template should be as much self-containing as possible. So no special settings required in ~$HOME/.emacs~

The file =ACM-template.org= contains everything needed to produce the ACM paper from an Org-mode file. It tangles initialization files for the new exporter and the old exporter. It writes a Makefile that:

• launches a fresh instance of Emacs,
• loads the selected initialization file,
• then processes the Org-mode file that generated it.

The file =sigproc-sp-org-new.org= contains the ACM-SIG LaTeX sample in Org-mode. The LaTeX output from Org-mode comes close to reproducing the original, but with a few deviations. The new exporter looks like it will be capable of generating a LaTeX file that doesn't need to be tweaked.

• Files

  • =ACM-template.org= is the template you'll use to start a new paper
  • =README.org= is this file
  • =acm_proc_article-sp.cls= is the ACM-SIG LaTeX class file
  • =flies.eps= is a graphic used by =sigproc-sp-org-new.org= and =sigproc-sp.tex=
  • =fly.eps= is a graphic used by =sigproc-sp-org-new.org= and =sigproc-sp.tex=
  • =sigproc-sp-org-new.org= is the ACM-SIG example file translated into Org-mode
  • =sigproc-sp.tex= is the ACM-SIG example file
  • =sigproc.bib= is the bibliography file used by =sigproc-sp-org-new.org= and =sigproc-sp.tex=

• Issues

  • Karl 2012-04-25: new Org-mode export does nothing but writing "org-splice-latex-header: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil"

    • Tom 2012-05-06: this is fixed now

  • Tom 2012-05-06: old exporter requires a headline before the first source code block.

  • Tom 2012-05-06: new exporter has a known bug that inserts source code header information after the source code block disappears, as it does with :exports results

  • Tom 2012-05-06: the list of additional authors doesn't separate the last author in the list with "and"

  • Tom 2012-05-06: the ACM latex class command \titlenote{} doesn't appear to work