pro forma
adjective
definition: (Latin) for form; done as a matter of form or for the sake of appearance.
Both Sheikh and McLean spent time with Swartz in New York that went way beyond the pro-forma office appointments and conference interactions they might have expected. What was to be a one-hour meeting at the ThoughtWorks office on Madison Avenue, says Sheikh, became a talkfest on machine learning environments that went into the early hours of the next day and reconvened a day later at a restaurant in Brooklyn. http://www.smh.com.au/world/a-beautiful-mind-20140127-31hjr.html