Received: by nummer-3.proteosys id <01C19443.41F7586C@nummer-3.proteosys>; Thu, 3 Jan 2002 11:41:53 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 x-vm-v5-data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil t nil][nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil]) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C19443.41F7586C" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: \appendix -- not really that bad of a concept if presented correctly. Date: Wed, 1 May 1991 07:34:00 +0100 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Don Hosek" Sender: "LaTeX-L Mailing list" To: "Rainer M. Schoepf" Reply-To: "LaTeX-L Mailing list" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 333 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C19443.41F7586C Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Some days ago, it had been suggested that the current syntax of \appendix \chapter {...} .. \chapter {...} .. be replaced with something more like \appendix{...} .. \appendix{...} .. I would like to suggest that this is a mistake. When I teach LaTeX classes, my presentation of the \appendix command is that it switches LaTeX into an "appendix mode" where formatting rules may change. In the standard report style, the numbering of chapters is changed from arabic numerals to uppercase latin letters. In other styles more dramatic changes may be called for: at BRL their article style, in addition to changing section numbering also changes equation numbering from 1,2,3 through the document to A1,A2,A3...; B1,B2,B3... in each appendix. The working design for my class notes switches to nine point type and two columns for the appendices. I find that presenting the material in this fashion (and making analogies with it for the \ps command of the letter style), allows users to see pass the seeming illogicality of the scheme and have it make sense again. What's more, it seems to me that this scheme is somewhat _more_ logical in terms of document structures and also (slightly) easier to implement. -dh ------_=_NextPart_001_01C19443.41F7586C Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable \appendix -- not really that bad of a concept if presented = correctly.

Some days ago, it had been suggested that the current = syntax of

\appendix
\chapter {...}
..
\chapter {...}
..

be replaced with something more like

\appendix{...}
..
\appendix{...}
..

I would like to suggest that this is a mistake. When I = teach
LaTeX classes, my presentation of the \appendix = command is that
it switches LaTeX into an "appendix mode" = where formatting rules
may change. In the standard report style, the = numbering of
chapters is changed from arabic numerals to uppercase = latin
letters. In other styles more dramatic changes may be = called for:
at BRL their article style, in addition to changing = section
numbering also changes equation numbering from 1,2,3 = through the
document to A1,A2,A3...; B1,B2,B3... in each = appendix. The
working design for my class notes switches to nine = point type and
two columns for the appendices.

I find that presenting the material in this fashion = (and making
analogies with it for the \ps command of the letter = style),
allows users to see pass the seeming illogicality of = the scheme
and have it make sense again. What's more, it seems = to me that
this scheme is somewhat _more_ logical in terms of = document
structures and also (slightly) easier to = implement.

-dh

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