tracl

Tracl is a Typst template for writing papers for the *ACL series of conferences with Typst. ACL is the Association for Computational Linguistics.

It implements the official ACL paper formatting guidelines and is modeled after the LaTeX style. Tracl is the Typst Reconstruction of the ACL style.

Tracl was developed by Alexander Koller, out of a personal desire to use Typst to write ACL papers. It is not officially supported by the ACL.

Usage

The usage of the ACL style is documented in main.pdf.

To create a new document using tracl from the Typst web app, simply choose “Start from template” and select tracl.

To create a new document from your computer’s command line, run

typst init @preview/tracl my-new-paper

This will create a new directory called my-new-paper that contains all the files to get started. Compile main.typ to obtain an initial PDF file.

Alternatively, you can copy association-for-computational-linguistics-blinky.csl into a new directory. Your Typst file can then #import the ACL style, as described in main.pdf.

Obtaining the fonts

The official ACL style uses fonts which are not preinstalled with Typst. You can still compile your Typst document with the ACL style, but it will use fallback fonts and not look like an ACL paper. You should therefore download these fonts and make them available to Typst.

If you are working in the Typst web app, copy all font files (*.otf and *.ttf) into the top level of your Typst project. If you are working offline, you can install them into your system.

For the “Times” font, download Nimbus Roman No9 L. (This is the font that the “times” package of TexLive actually uses.)

For the “sans serif” font, download Nimbus Sans. (This is a replacement for Helvetica.)

For the monospace (“typewriter”) font, download Inconsolata.

License information

The ACL style for Typst is distributed under the Apache License 2.0.

The SVG example picture in pics/spec-paths-cubic01.svg is © 2016 openscad under an MIT License. It comes from this Github repository.