Replace this file with prentcsmacro.

sty for your meeting,

or with entcsmacro.sty for your meeting. Both can be
found at the ENTCS Macro Home Page.

An Example Paper
My Name 1,2
My Department
My University
My City, My Country

My Co-author 3
My Co-authors Department
My Co-authors University
My Co-authors City, My Co-authors Country

Abstract
This is a short example to show the basics of using the ENTCS style macro files.
Ample examples of how files should look may be found among the published volumes
of the series at the ENTCS Home Page http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/entcs.
Key words: Please list keywords from your paper here, separated
by commas.

Introduction

This short note provides a guide to using the ENTCS macro package for
preparing papers for publication in your conference Proceedings. The Proceedings may be printed and hard copies distributed to participants at the
meeting; this is an option to Conference Organizers may choose to exercise.
The Proceedings also will be par of a volume in the series Electronic Notes
in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS), which is published under the auspices of Elsevier Science B. V., the publishers of Theoretical Computer Science.
Its home page is http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/entcs
The ENTCS macro package consists of two files:
entcs.cls, the basic style file, and
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Thanks to everyone who should be thanked

Email: [email protected]
Email: [email protected]

c 2003 Published by Elsevier Science B. V.

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entcsmacro.sty, a macro file containing the definitions of some of the theoremlike environments and a few other tidbits.
The formatting these style files impose should not be altered the reason for
using them is to attain a uniform format for all papers in the Proceedings of
which your paper is a part.
Additional macro files can be added using \usepackage{...}. The file
entcsmacro.sty must be included in the list, as is done at the start of the
source file for this paper.
The ENTCS package requires a relatively up-to-date LATEX system in order
to be successfully used. This is reflected in two other packages that are called
by entcs.cls, which must be available on your machine. These are:

The hyperref package. This package allows the use of hyperlinks in files
prepared using LATEX2e, one of the main features of Adobes Acrobat c
Reader software. Be sure that you have at least version 6.69d of this package.

The ifpdf package. This is used by hyperref to differentiate between the

use of pdfLATEX and LATEX2e, followed by dvips and then ps2pdf.
The file instraut.dvi contains information about the use of LATEXto prepare files for online publication by Elsevier. This file refers to the older version
of LATEX that is no longer suppported, and that is inadequate for preparing
.pdf files for online publication. Reading this file should answer most of the
basic questions about LATEX that might arise.

Frontmatter

The biggest difference between a usual LATEX style such as article.sty

and the ENTCS package is that the ENTCS macro package requires the title,
authors name or names, abstract, keywords and thanks all to be included
within the frontmatter environment. At the beginning of the source file for
this paper, youll notice this. Also, youll notice that the usual \maketitle
is absent; it no longer is needed. The ENTCS style package automatically
generates the title, authors name and address, and related material at the
beginning of the paper. Note also that hyperref has been disabled in this part
of the entcs.cls file, so references to footnotes arent linked to the appropriate
footenotes or addresses. This is an old problem with LATEX, involving the fact
that the references within the frontmatter arent passed cleanly to the linking
software.
For those who have used the ENTCS package before, the one new thing
to note is the inclusion of Keywords; these are now required by Elsevier
theyre also required by ACMs Computing Reviews which reviews ENTCS
publications.
The ENTCS macro package provides two alternatives to listing authors
names and addresses. These are described in detail in the file instraut.dvi.
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Basically, listing each author and his or her address in turn, is the simplest
method. But, if there are several authors and two or more share the same
address (but not all authors are at this address), then the method of listing
authors first, and then the addresses, and of referencing addresses to authors
should be used.
Also, notice that acknowledgment of support (the contents of \thanks)
should be done by a separate listing of \thanks[NSF]{To the NSF} with the
optional argument [NSF] being used for \thanksref which is attached to
those authors acknowledging such support. It is important that the \thanks
not be included within the scope of \author{} or of \title{}, but it must
be within the scope of the environment frontmatter.
More details about added terms such as \collab can be found in inst.dvi,
if they are needed.
Also, notice that the command \lastname{My Lastname} has been included before the frontmatter begins. This command should contain the
last names of the authors of the paper. If there are no more than three authors, then they should be listed with the word and between the last two;
if more than three authors collaborated on the paper, then the first author
only should be listed, together with \emph{et al}. This command creates
the headline for each page after page 1.
Finally, please be sure to include an abstract for your paper.

Sectioning and Environments

Since ENTCS is published through the auspices of Elsevier Science B. V., their
style files have been used to create the ENTCS macro package. Heres a proof
that this package is not much different than most of the ones one encounters:
Definition 3.1 A file is derived from another if it is obtained with only a few
modifications from the original file.
Theorem 3.2 The file entcs.cls is derived from elsart.sty.
Proof. This is clear from the similarity of the output to the output from
Elseviers style files.
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If one wants to start a proof with a descriptive word, such as sketch,
then one can use the \begin{proof*}...\end{proof*} environment, as in
Proof (Sketch) This can be derived from simple observations.

The main differences between the file entcs.cls and the elsartr.cls file
used by Elsevier are the more precise format we use Elseviers generic files are
meant for preliminary editing, and more precise formatting is imposed using
a macro file designed for the specific Elsevier journal in which the paper will
eventually appear. The entcs.cls and entcsmacro.sty files format papers
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