Christopher L Conway wrote:

> style is attached (I'm sure many on the list already have it), in case
> Peter is feeling brave. Note that the ACM has several different

I'm feeling brave but tired ;-) Besides I'm spending all of my free time learning Haskell! :) I don't know tex at all, I just wanted to mention the unfortunate fact that people with bad eyes (or tired eyes, like mine) might have problems (well at least I have) reading this standard format. 

I did some Googling, and at first sight (but my sight is not that good ;-) creating a reflowable PDF from tex is not obvious. But it would already help a lot if instead of having two columns per page, we just had a single column, with less space between the margins, and using a >2x larger font. That can't be that hard I guess? 

Peter

On Nov 19, 2007 2:57 PM, Neil Mitchell <ndmitchell@gmail.com> wrote:
  

Hi Peter,

    

 Although this is standard, it is not really accessible for people with
people with bad vision, who prefer larger fonts. When you print this, the
fonts are rather small. For those people, a reflowable PDF would make much
more sense, so they can choose how big the fonts are on screen & paper.
      

It is the standard for ACM workshops and conferences, which includes
ICFP and Haskell Workshop. All these PDF's are produced from a
standard Latex class file. If you wrote to people expressing this, and
did whatever magic is required to make the class file produce both the
current format and a reflowable PDF, you might get somewhere.
    

Neil,

The person responsible for this at the ACM is Gerry Murray
(murray@hq.acm.org). He has been extremely responsive in the past when
I have had problems with the class file. The standard ACM conference
style is attached (I'm sure many on the list already have it), in case
Peter is feeling brave. Note that the ACM has several different
formats (e.g., journal vs. conference) and they would all need to be
updated.

Chris