X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["746" "Thu" "4" "February" "93" "08:59:00" "GMT" "XRASIMMIE@BODKIN.UCG.IE" "XRASIMMIE@BODKIN.UCG.IE" nil "19" "Re: document classes and numbering" "^Date:" nil nil "2"]) Return-Path: Received: from sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (mailserv) by dagobert.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.1/SMI-4.0/1.9.92 ) id AA16562; Thu, 4 Feb 93 10:03:19 +0100 Received: from vm.urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de (vm.hd-net.uni-heidelberg.de) by sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.1/SMI-4.0-sc/19.6.92) id AA23297; Thu, 4 Feb 93 10:03:17 +0100 Message-Id: <9302040903.AA23297@sc.zib-berlin.dbp.de> Received: from DHDURZ1 by vm.urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 5402; Thu, 04 Feb 93 10:04:19 CET Received: from DHDURZ1 by DHDURZ1 (Mailer R2.08 R208004) with BSMTP id 5374; Thu, 04 Feb 93 10:04:19 CET Received: from DHDURZ1 by DHDURZ1 (Mailer R2.08 R208004) with BSMTP id 5372; Thu, 04 Feb 93 10:04:17 CET Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Date: Thu, 4 Feb 93 08:59:00 GMT From: XRASIMMIE@BODKIN.UCG.IE Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple Recipients of Subject: Re: document classes and numbering Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 926 Subj: RE: document classes & numbering systems > The key question is why is numbering style part of the logical > structure? >Michael Downes writes > > (a) Exercises in a textbook numbered like an enumerate environment. At > the beginning of each exercise section the instructions say "Answers > for odd-numbered exercises are found in Appendix~\ref{answ}." If a > different documentstyle is substituted that changes the default > numbering style for "list of exercises" from arabic numerals to > alphabetic, the adjective "odd-numbered" will no longer make sense. Of course it makes no sense since "odd-numbered" is hard-coded numeric .... More acceptable is "Answers for every second exercise are found ..." or whatever John Simmie