X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["519" "Fri" "21" "August" "92" "17:19:21" "CET" "Frank Mittelbach" "MITTELBACH@MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE" nil "19" "Re: discription" "^Date:" nil nil "8"]) Return-Path: Received: from sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (serv01) by dagobert.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.1/SMI-4.0/6.5.92 ) id AA08964; Fri, 21 Aug 92 17:41:29 +0200 Received: from mail.cs.tu-berlin.de by sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.0/SMI-4.0-sc/19.6.92) id AA03060; Fri, 21 Aug 92 17:41:23 +0200 Received: from tubvm.cs.tu-berlin.de by mail.cs.tu-berlin.de with SMTP id AA00338 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4(mail.m4[1.11]) for ); Fri, 21 Aug 1992 17:41:13 +0200 Message-Id: <199208211541.AA00338@mail.cs.tu-berlin.de> Received: from TUBVM.CS.TU-BERLIN.DE by tubvm.cs.tu-berlin.de (IBM VM SMTP R1.2.2MX) with BSMTP id 0210; Fri, 21 Aug 92 17:41:17 +02 Received: from DEARN by TUBVM.CS.TU-BERLIN.DE (Mailer R2.07B) with BSMTP id 0209; Fri, 21 Aug 92 17:41:16 +0200 Received: from DEARN by DEARN (Mailer R2.08) with BSMTP id 4428; Fri, 21 Aug 92 17:39:39 MET Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 17:19:21 CET From: Frank Mittelbach Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of Subject: Re: discription Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 731 > \newdimen\descriptionmargin > \descriptionmargin=3em > appears in the book and report styles and is outcommented in > article. The register thus defined and set appears no where else. > Any explanation? Yes, it is not used. I think it was used once, so one can call it a left over :-) > BTW, why is \description defined by the document style and not > latex.tex? is this important? I would ask the other way around, why is itemize inside latex? But both questions do not lead anywhere at the moment. Frank