Matteo Riondato

(continuing from above). For example, I wonder whether the options `pdfa,pdfapart=1,pdfaconformance=b` to hyperref could be passed by default, which seems sufficient to satisfy the NSF PAR checker.

I am worried about that. It can be solved with documentation about this fact. It is still a step in the right direction, IMHO.

OK. =)

No, I'm talking about the PDF that one gets from (the service used by) ACM before a journal article is published, to check that everything looks correct, submit corrections, and...

Could this switch also somehow enable the use of unicode-math? This limitation has been mentioned in another issue as well: https://github.com/borisveytsman/acmart/issues/255#issuecomment-621270975 .

17 months later, and nobody knows what the outcome of this decision was, not even whether it was ever discussed (and from Twitter, it seems that it wasn't).

But can we *please* get a *reason* why the year gets printed twice? Like, why is it useful to repeat this information? Is there historic precedent (and why do we...

Thanks for the reply. What was the reason for not changing, possibly even specifically about this replication of the year? Are minutes of these meetings available?

Thus confirming, twice in a single reply, the complete lack of transparency in these decisions.

(Side note: I'm not "the public", I'm a member of ACM, but clearly not even members can know what ACM decides for them and why.)