USENIX Example Paper Pekka Nikander Jane-Ellen Long Aalto University USENIX Association Abstract ThisisanexampleforaUSENIXpaper,intheform of an HTML/CSS template. Being heavily self-ref- erential, this template illustrates the features in- cluded in this template. It is expected that the prospectiveauthorsusingHTML/CSSwouldcreate a new document based on this template, remove the content, and start writing their paper. Notethatinthistemplate,youmayhaveamul- ti-paragraph abstract. However, that it is not nec- essarily a good practice. Try to keep your abstract in one paragraph, and remember that the optimal length for an abstract is 200-300 words. 1 Introduction For the purposes of USENIX conference publica- tions,theauthors,nottheUSENIXstaff,aresolely responsibleforthecontentandformattingoftheir paper. The purpose of this template is to help thoseauthorsthatwanttouseHTML/CSStowrite Figure1:Thisfigureisshowedforillustrationalpurpos- their papers. This template has been prepared by es only; floppy disks are not required to use this tem- HåkonWiumLie,andisbasedonaguidetousing plate. FrameMaker for USENIX papers, written by Pekka Nikander with the help of Jane-Ellen Long. 2.2 Style manuals The rest of this paper is organized as follows. Besides typography, style is the second element Section 2 gives a brief overview of related work, of preparing easy-to-read publications. There are suchasothertemplatesandstylemanuals.Section tens of good style manuals available. To mention 3 discusses the details of this template, and Sec- justacouple,TheElementsofStylebyStrunkand tion 4 contains our conclusions. White[1]isaclassic,andhasremainedabestseller since its introduction in 1930’s. From the more 2 Related Work contemporaryones,WritingforComputerScience Preparing good-looking publications is not easy. by Justin Zobel[2]seems appropriate. Itrequiresunderstandingofstyleandtypography. The purpose of the templates provided by the 3 Implementation USENIXorganizationistolifttheburdenofcaring In this section we cover the features included in about typography from the authors. However, the this template. Our goal has been that the authors authors still remain, and will always remain, re- donotneedtomakemodificationstothetemplate; sponsible for the style. instead,theyshouldbeabletoconcentrateonthe contentandstyle.Withthisinmind,thistemplate 2.1 Word and LaTeX templates includesanumberoffeatures.Ontheotherhand, The USENIX website includes a template for Mi- we have also tried to keep this document simple crosoftWord,aswellasLaTeXtemplates.Manyof and easy to maintain. thesettingsintheCSSstylesheetofthistemplate This template is written in HTML, with CSS to have been copied from the LaTeX templates. providestyling,andasmallJavaScripttohelpfor- mat references. 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The (This section has been added by Håkon Wium Lie) figure element is used to include figures and InordertoconvertthedocumenttoPDF,afor- matter is needed. Common browsers support theircorrenspondingcaptionsliveinsidethefig- HTMLandCSS,buttheydonotsupportalltheCSS captionelement.Theciteelementholdsallref- functionality for page-based formatting. For ex- erences. ample, browsers do not support footnotes or page Asmallmicroformat,basedonaconventionof floats. This paper has been formatted with classnames,isusedtoencodethenameandaffili- [a] Prince, a purpose-built program for converting ation of the authors. HTML and XML documents into PDF by way of CSS. Prince is a commercial product, but can be 3.2 CSS downloadedandusedforfreefornon-commercial A CSS style sheet describes how to format the purposes. HTML document into a PDF file. CSS is a declar- InorderforPrincetoprocessthescriptinclud- ative language which attaches property values to ed in this template, a command line option must HTML elements and documents. Many aspects of be specified: CSSisusedtoachievethepresentationofUSENIX $ prince --javascript example.html papers, including: • multi-column layout 4 Tables • footnotes • page and column floats ThetablebelowlistsrecipientsoftheUSENIXLife- • multi-level counters timeAchievementAwardinthe1900s.Noticehow notesinsidethetablearemovedtotheendofthe Somecommonlyusedfeaturesareabsentfrom table. theabovelist:pagenumbersandrunningheaders should not be specifed by USENIX authors, these Year Recipient are added by those who compile the Proceedings. 1999 X Window System* 3.3 JavaScript 1998 Tim Berners-Lee This template uses JavaScript to process refer- 1997 Brian W. Kernighan ences. References are added at the point where theyappear,andascriptislaterusedtomovethe [a]www.princexml.com 1996 The Software Tools Project work. 1995 The Creation ofUSENET** Availability 1994 Networking Technologies Please include a section at the end of your paper 1993 Berkeley UNIX providing availability information. If the system * Given to the Community at Large youdescribeisavailabletoothers,andifmorein- ** Given toJim EllisandTom Truscott formation(reports,etc.)maybeobtained,indicate terms and contact information. 5 Conclusions References Each good paper concludes the most significant [1] STRUNK, W. JR., AND WHITE, E.B. The Elements findings in the end. ofStyle,4thEd,AllynandBacon,August,1999, ISBN 020530902X Acknowledgments [2] ZOBEL, J. Writing for Computer Science, Apoliteauthoralwaysincludesacknowledgments. Springer-Verlag, December 1997, ISBN Thank everyone, especially those who funded the 9813083220