The easychair Class File Documentation and Guide, for Authors and Editors Serguei A. Mokhov * Concordia University Montreal, Quebec, Canada mokhov@encs.concordia.ca Geoff Sutcliffe † University of Miami Miami, Florida, U.S.A. geoff@cs.miami.edu Andrei Voronkov ‡ University of Manchester Manchester, U.K. andrei@voronkov.com Abstract In order to ease the lives of authors, editors, and trees, we present an easy-to-read guide to the easy-to-use easychair L A T E X2e document style class for EasyChair-based electronic publishing of workshop and conference proceedings. 1 Introduction For quick typesetting instructions please skip to Section 2. The easychair class was designed to be easy to use, and specifically favoring electronic publishing by the EasyChair conference system [24]. EasyChair is a free conference management system that is flexible, easy to use, and has many features to make it suitable for various conference models. It is currently probably the most commonly used conference management system [24]. The easychair class was designed according to some requirements, which are described in Appendix A. Figure 1: EasyChair logo 2 Typesetting Typesetting with easychair is, well, easy. Just by using the document class entry in the document’s preamble as follows: \documentclass{easychair} the typesetting work is nearly done. The easy- chair class is a relatively conservative extension of the standard article class, so most of the environ- ments, section headers, etc. defined by article are available. G. Sutcliffe, A. Voronkov (eds.): easychair 1.0, 2008, volume 1, issue: 1, pp. 1-9 * Did all the difficult work † Did numerous tests and provided a lot of suggestions ‡ Masterminded EasyChair 1