Tracl is an unofficial Typst template for writing papers for the *ACL series of conferences with Typst (ACL, EACL, NAACL, EMNLP, etc.).

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 ACL, but it was used to successfully publish at least one paper.

Usage

The usage of the ACL style is documented in main.pdf. An example of a paper prepared with tracl is Duchnowski et al. 2025.

Obtaining the fonts

Tracl uses TeX Gyre Termes as the serif font for the main text (replaces Times), TeX Gyre Heros as the sans-serif font (replaces Helvetica), and Inconsolata as the monospace font. TeX Gyre Termes, in particular, is accepted as a replacement for Times by aclpubcheck; it is an extended version of Nimbus Roman No9 L, the font that LaTeX uses when you import the times package.

These fonts are preinstalled in the Typst web app, so you should be able to use tracl out of the box simply by creating a project from the tracl template.

If you want to work offline, you will need to install the fonts on your computer. You can obtain the two TeX Gyre fonts from CTAN and Inconsolata from Google Fonts. All three fonts are distributed under open licenses.

However, note that Typst currently does not support variable fonts. Static versions of TeX Gyre Termes and Heros are in the opentype directory of the Zip file you download. A static version of Inconsolata is available here. I recommend that you install these versions of the fonts until variable fonts are supported by Typst.

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.