X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["930" "Mon" "3" "May" "93" "16:27:32" "+0100" "Adrian F Clark" "alien@ESSEX.AC.UK" nil "20" "documentstyle option versions" "^Date:" nil nil "5"]) Return-Path: Received: from sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (mailserv) by dagobert.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.1/SMI-4.0/1.9.92 ) id AA25270; Mon, 3 May 93 17:29:34 +0200 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 AA17086; Mon, 3 May 93 17:29:31 +0200 Message-Id: <9305031529.AA17086@sc.zib-berlin.dbp.de> Received: from DHDURZ1 by vm.urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 3139; Mon, 03 May 93 17:29:01 CET Received: from DHDURZ1 by DHDURZ1 (Mailer R2.08 R208004) with BSMTP id 8775; Mon, 03 May 93 17:28:57 CET Received: from DHDURZ1 by DHDURZ1 (Mailer R2.08 R208004) with BSMTP id 8773; Mon, 03 May 93 17:28:55 CET Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: Peter Dalgaard SFE's message of Mon, 3 May 93 17:16:54 +0200 Date: Mon, 3 May 93 16:27:32 +0100 From: Adrian F Clark Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple Recipients of Subject: documentstyle option versions Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 1030 On Mon, 3 May 93 17:16:54 +0200, Peter Dalgaard SFE said: >> Now, if one made the new LaTeX contain support for good programming >> practice (a \assert macro springs to mind) and a Style Writers Guide >> was written containing good advice and warnings then it might be possible >> to eradicate the worst cases of this kind of trouble. This sounds like a good idea to me. One could then assert that any document that has \tenrm defined should generate a warning message -- or perhaps even use it make a surrogate definition (perhaps \def\tenrm{\normalsize}). ..Adrian Dr Adrian F. Clark JANET: alien@uk.ac.essex INTERNET: alien%uk.ac.essex@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk FAX: (+44) 206-872900 BITNET: alien%uk.ac.essex@ac.uk PHONE: (+44) 206-872432 (direct) Dept ESE, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, Essex, C04 3SQ, UK.