Strategies for Making Your Output Conform to the ACL 2000 Paper Guidelines


  1. Change \documentclass[11pt]{article} to \documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article} in your source LaTeX file.

  2. Use the -ta4 option when invoking dvips .

  3. Change \setlength\topmargin{-0.6cm} to \setlength\topmargin{0.0cm} in order to better center the text on the page.

  4. Modify the top margin using the command \addtolength{\topmargin}{0.6cm} in order to better center the text on the page.