ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION OF JACM ARTICLES

This directory contains the acmart document class, which is an
alternative to the acmtrans class.  The acmtrans class is the official
ACM-supported package for preparing final manuscripts for submission
to the ACM as part of its Electronic Publishing Plan.  The acmart
class is a fully compatible alternative to acmtrans, but incorporates
a number of bug fixes and a few extra features.

The Author's Guide below is meant for use by authors who are preparing
their final manuscript using the acmart document class.  It is based
on and quotes heavily from the "Author's Guide for Electronic
Submittal of ACM Journal Articles Accepted for Publication," but is
meant to be a self-contained document that contains all the
information you need to submit your files.  However, the ACM's Guide
is definitive; whenever there are any conflicts between it and the
Guide below, the ACM Guide takes precedence.

The acmtrans package and the ACM's Author's Guide are available via
anonymous ftp from

     ftp://acm.org/pubs/submitting_accepted_articles/latex/unix/

The following documents are part of the electronic submission package.

    guide.tex       The Author's Guide for Electronic Submittal of
    guide.dvi       JACM Journal Articles
    guide.ps

    acmart.cls      a LaTeX2e document class

    acmart.sty      a LaTeX 2.09 document style

    acmsamp.tex     a sample file for the acmart document class

    acmtrans.bst    a BibTeX style

You may also want to download a copy of the acmabs document class,
which will be necessary if you want to download any of the abstracts
from our bibliography WWW server in LaTeX form.

In addition, for those interested in the technical details, the
following documentation of the source code is available:

    changes.txt     a list of the major differences between acmtrans
                    and acmart and between the old and new versions of
                    acmtrans.bst

    acmart.dtx      the source for acmart.cls and acmart.sty.  This
    acmart.dvi      can be run through LaTeX2e to produce a formatted,
    acmart.ps       partially commented copy of the code. 


    acmtrans.dtx    the source for acmtrans.bst. This can be run
    acmtrans.dvi    through LaTeX2e to produce a formatted, somewhat
    acmtrans.ps     commented copy of the code.

    acmart.ins      the driver file for the previous two files.
                    Running TeX on this will generate acmart.cls,
                    acmart.sty and acmtrans.bst.

Finally, you may find the acmcr GNU Emacs package useful when
preparing lists of ACM Computing Classification categories for papers.
Please see the comments at the top of the file for more information
about this package.

David M. Jones
jacm@theory.lcs.mit.edu
August 28, 1995