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Date:         Fri, 11 Sep 92 11:26:52 +0100
From: Dominik Wujastyk <ucgadkw@UCL.AC.UK>
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Subject:      RE: sectioning units lower than \subparagraph
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On Sep 11, 11:12am, Chris wrote:

> Nelson Beebe also pointed out, at the mini-workshop we held in
> Portland, that when incorporating an article into a book, it would be
> useful to be able to set up local mappings from "author's tags" to
> "document elements".  This also requires that the names are not
> hard-wired to levels.

I've often wished to be able to do exactly this.  I have a book
on the go at the moment where I -- as editor and LaTeX sophisticate --
have the whole thing set up with a single driver file and \includeonly
statements for each chapter, etc., while the author, during
his cycle of editing, always changes each
chapter back into a separate document with it's own \documentstyle etc.

This is a job for AWK, I know, but still, it would be nice to
have a simple way of disabling included \documentstyle statements,
and changing \title ... into \chapter, and doing something
sensible with \author and \date, and \begin/end{document}, without
physically editing each chapter heading.

This may sound trivial, but the book I have at present is about 1000
pages, and has scores of chapters, so it does get tedious.

Dominik