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Date:         Mon, 16 Jul 90 15:21:00 PDT
Reply-To: LaTeX-L Mailing list <LATEX-L%DHDURZ1@unido.bitnet>
From: Don Hosek <DHOSEK@HMCVAX.bitnet>
Subject:      Re: document structure; table of contents
To: Rainer Schoepf <BK4@DHDURZ1.uucp>
Status: R
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>Recently I talked to Frank about his startsection macros.  He
>told me
>that he isn't very happy with these since he found a lot of
>designs
>that are not covered by them.  For example: the heading text is
>typeset
>as a sort of marginal note next to the first lines of the
>section.
>We have to think about this further; maybe I have an idea, but it
>has
>still to ripen.

It will take you forever (quite literally) to allow every possible
section heading to be covered by \@startsection or whatever it is
to be called.

I don't care how long you spend trying to "fix" things, there will
always be designs that your pre-packaged macros will do. So what?
If you're concerned about providing a good interface to the style
designer, stop wasting your time with the generic section header
command and try and see if you can improve the \@secdef interface.
Using \@secdef is not a crime, folks!

-dh