name: README description: read me for sugconf.cls purpose: introduction and explanation of LaTeX document class sugconf for SAS(R) User Group (SUG) conference authors date: 4/31/2021 posted to CTAN author: Ronald J. Fehd, SAS-L's macro maven TeX User Group (TUG) member mailto:Ron.Fehd.macro.maven@gmail.com note: SAS-L is the name of listserv of the international online SAS user group community http://www.listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?S1=sas-l note: CTAN: Comprehensive TeX Archive Network note: License type: Free, LaTeX project public license http://www.latex-project.org/lppl/ * SUG authors LaTeX is a set of macros for the LaTeX document processing application. Several years ago I began using LaTeX to write my SUG papers. In order to produce a paper which conforms to SAS User Group International conference paper guidelines it is necessary to modify the LaTeX document class article. The layout produced by the 'sugconf' class is based on the description contained in SUGI paper guidelines, published by SAS Institute: (2006) http://support.sas.com/usergroups/sugi/sugi31/package/WritersGuidelines.pdf note: 2021-04-02 this file is n/a * All SUG conferences now require submission of papers as a .pdf. TeX distributions provide pdflatex.exe which produces a .pdf from the source text file. (.tex or .ltx or .txt). The .pdf can be read with Adobe Reader v5 or greater. * filename extensions ** .bat: windows batch file executes pdflatex, input : .tex note: input may be .txt output : .pdf ** .tex: input : text file containing LaTeX markup commands ** .pdf: output: Adobe v5 or higher * Please review the following files in order to familiarize yourself with LaTeX markup commands. ** sugconf-template illustrates the LaTeX document class article hello-world-article.tex hello-world-sugconf.tex ** sugconf-skeleton and sugconf-template are your basic starting documents sugconf-skeleton.tex sugconf-template.tex ** this file provides the LaTeX document class sugconf based on article you must download this file and place it in the same folder with your SUG-conf-paper sugconf.cls is available in the TeXlive distribution: where is Universal Naming Convention for your TeXlive installation folder \texlive\2021\texmf-dist\tex\latex\sugconf this document is in: \texlive\2021\texmf-dist\doc\latex\sugconf * processing your .tex file with a Windows .bat file - - - - sugconf-template.bat - - - pdflatex sugconf-template - - - - sugconf-template.bat end - - - note assumption: filename extension is .tex to process a text file other than .tex, specify the extension: pdflatex sugconf-template.txt * highly recommended I recommend a professional text editor. \end{document}%README