The ACM provides a LaTeX template called sig-alternate.cls (webpage, class file). The current version is 2.4 released in April, 2009.
I would like to submit a paper for review using this class file. Unfortunately, the class file reserves some space at the bottom of the first page in the first column for a copyright notice. This copyright notice is required for the camera ready version of the paper, but not for the initial paper submission. How can I remove this copyright notice and reclaim this space?
Best Answer
Use the
etoolbox
package and its\patchcmd
macro to selectively changesig-alternate
' s definition of\maketitle
, i.e. remove the\@copyrightspace
macro (which is responsible for the copyright space).(The
blindtext
package is only used to add some dummy text to the example.)