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Date:         Fri, 8 Jun 90 14:37:10 -0700
Reply-To: LaTeX-L Mailing list <LATEX-L%DHDURZ1@unido.bitnet>
From: Leslie Lamport <lamport@SRC.DEC.COM>
Subject:      Re: Front matter definitions
To: Rainer Schoepf <BK4@DHDURZ1.uucp>
Status: R
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If the date is printed at the end of the article, is it "frontmatter"?
Or is there a a "backmatter" that is different from the "frontmatter"
date, which is presumably different from the "middlematter" date that
appears on each page of a draft version?

Title, date, etc.  logically serve as parameters to the "document"
environment.  To be consistent, the format should be

  \begin{document|author="J. D. Sallinger"|lastname="Sallinger"%
                 |email="jds@random.com"...}

No, I don't particularly like that.  Which seems to indicate that I
might not particularly like having to write

  \begin{theorem|name="Zorn's Second Lemma"|format="compact"|...}

Let's come up with a single, consistent parameter mechanism that will
unify things; let's not spawn a host of \frontm, \backm, \middlem, ....
commands.

Leslie Lamport