[kleiba]

But don't most academic papers actually look very different from this? Usually, conferences and journals provide style files that look very different from this website.

I see out-of-the-box latex looks mostly in shorter student reports - although even there, you often get more modern looking styles.

[thomaspark]

On a side-note, I made a thing a few years back that does academic papers with CSS, with examples of ACM and IEEE format:

https://thomaspark.co/2015/01/pubcss-formatting-academic-pub...

https://thomaspark.co/projects/pubcss/demo/acm-sig-sample-we...