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Stelios Tsampas (May 04 2020 at 15:10):Mainly directed at ACT 2020 committee members (like @Christina Vasilakopoulou @Jules Hedges @Fabrizio Genovese @John Baez).
I'm reading the CFP for ACT 2020 and I see that there is no specific requirement for a template. I suppose that this is not an omission and that we are free to choose our own (single-column) template, right?
John Baez (May 04 2020 at 15:17):I guess - I'm unaware of any such requirements, so I just uploaded a paper of mine for my own contribution.
John Baez (May 04 2020 at 15:19):The people in charge of this stuff are not the rank-and-file committee members; they are Jamie Vicary and David Spivak.
Stelios Tsampas (May 04 2020 at 15:20):John Baez said:
I guess - I'm unaware of any such requirements, so I just uploaded a paper of mine for my own contribution.
OK! It's somewhat bizarre, as the 5-12-page requirement can be wildly inconsistent without the point of reference a template provides.
John Baez (May 04 2020 at 15:20):It would be both cruel and stupid to have formatting requirements for submissions and not tell anyone.
John Baez (May 04 2020 at 15:21):I don't think stuffing as much as possible in 12 pages increases one's chance of getting a paper accepted! I sure hope not.
John Baez (May 04 2020 at 15:21):It might even have the opposite effect.
John Baez (May 04 2020 at 15:22):Anyway, I'll ask Jamie or David.
Stelios Tsampas (May 04 2020 at 15:23):John Baez said:
I don't think stuffing as much as possible in 12 pages increases one's chance of getting a paper accepted! I sure hope not.
True, true! Last year's compositionality template (which looked stylish and cool, don't get be wrong) was very generous with their margins and that, along with that texas king-sized font, made the content very sparse.
Fabrizio Genovese (May 04 2020 at 16:56):Stelios Tsampas said:
John Baez said:
I don't think stuffing as much as possible in 12 pages increases one's chance of getting a paper accepted! I sure hope not.
True, true! Last year's compositionality template (which looked stylish and cool, don't get be wrong) was very generous with their margins and that, along with that texas king-sized font, made the content very sparse.
So, I got an email (I think from Bob @Bob Coecke ) some time ago saying that proceedings of ACT2019 and (if I recall correctly) of ACT2020 would be taken care of by EPTCS. I don't know if this is the case for ACT2020 (it surely is for ACT2019), but I used the EPTCS template just to be sure.
Fabrizio Genovese (May 04 2020 at 16:58):Also, EPTCS is actually a much better template than others, it has good space/margins and doesn't throw a lot of errors/warnings when used.
Stelios Tsampas (May 04 2020 at 17:26):Then I'll probably use those too!
John Baez (May 04 2020 at 18:01):Jamie Vicary and David Spivak assured me that no template is required for submitting papers to ACT2020, but also
These "pack it in" people don't seem to appreciate that angering your reviewers is not the way to get ahead!
Of course if your contribution to the conference gets accepted and then (in what's I believe a separate step) it gets accepted for publication, you'll eventually have to put it in some format - and I believe that's the EPTCS format.