X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["1580" "Thu" "4" "February" "93" "11:57:18" "-0500" "Mark Steinberger" "mark@CS.ALBANY.EDU" nil "35" "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 AA17666; Thu, 4 Feb 93 18:04:25 +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 AA25728; Thu, 4 Feb 93 18:04:21 +0100 Message-Id: <9302041704.AA25728@sc.zib-berlin.dbp.de> Received: from DHDURZ1 by vm.urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 6081; Thu, 04 Feb 93 18:05:22 CET Received: from DHDURZ1 by DHDURZ1 (Mailer R2.08 R208004) with BSMTP id 8408; Thu, 04 Feb 93 18:05:21 CET Received: from DHDURZ1 by DHDURZ1 (Mailer R2.08 R208004) with BSMTP id 8406; Thu, 04 Feb 93 18:05:19 CET Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Date: Thu, 4 Feb 93 11:57:18 -0500 From: Mark Steinberger 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: 934 I think it would be useful to have a convention whereby documentstyles had macros for customization of numbering systems, fonts for heads and running heads, etc. built in in a standardized, user-friendly manner. (Yes, I know that some such macros currently exist, but more would be useful. Implementation could be improved, as well.) There are standard decisions which are made whenever a documentstyle is created, and, as much as possible, these decisions should be implemented via standardized macros that may be modified in the preamble to a given document. Yes, there should be defaults, so that the user need not make such specifications. And, yes, the educated user can currently spend the time to change a given documentstyle to implement such things. On the other hand, even the educated user might want to try various options and wind up with fifteen custom documentstyles whose details he or she cannot even recall. And each modification takes considerably more time than would be required from some standardized customization scheme. Such customization is particularly valuable for books published via camera ready copy. Every publisher has different preferences. Many of them know little or nothing about tex. Any thoughts? --Mark -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Steinberger | mark@sarah.albany.edu Dept. of Math. & Stat | SUNY at Albany | Nonlinear similarity begins in dimension six. Albany, NY 12222 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------