X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["790" "Thu" "10" "February" "1994" "11:55:58" "LCL" "Mike Piff" "M.Piff@sheffield.ac.uk" "<199402101334.AA20839@mail.cs.tu-berlin.de>" "18" "Article.cls" "^Date:" nil nil "2" "1994021011:55:58" "Article.cls" nil nil]) Return-Path: Received: from sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (mailserv) by dagobert.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.1/SMI-4.0/24.6.93) id AA14165; Thu, 10 Feb 94 14:35:13 +0100 Received: from mail.cs.tu-berlin.de by sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.1/SMI-4.0-sc/03.06.93) id AA01627; Thu, 10 Feb 94 14:34:12 +0100 Received: from tubvm.cs.tu-berlin.de by mail.cs.tu-berlin.de with SMTP id AA20839 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4(mail.m4[1.12]) for <@MAIL.CS.TU-BERLIN.DE:Schoepf@SC.ZIB-BERLIN.DE>); Thu, 10 Feb 1994 14:34:10 +0100 Message-Id: <199402101334.AA20839@mail.cs.tu-berlin.de> Received: from TUBVM.CS.TU-BERLIN.DE by tubvm.cs.tu-berlin.de (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 3935; Thu, 10 Feb 94 14:33:59 +0200 Received: from VM.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (NJE origin MAILER@DHDURZ1) by TUBVM.CS.TU-BERLIN.DE (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 3933; Thu, 10 Feb 1994 14:33:58 +0200 Received: from VM.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (NJE origin LISTSERV@DHDURZ1) by VM.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 9660; Thu, 10 Feb 1994 13:16:40 +0000 Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Date: Thu, 10 Feb 1994 11:55:58 LCL From: Mike Piff Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Article.cls Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 1510 Is it really a good idea to limit (enumerate) the possible paper sizes and point sizes in this way? Some of us print on envelopes of various indeterminate sizes, and even on occasion at 14pt base size. OK, I know that we can (a) set up our own packages or (b) set up our own classes to handle this, but surely that is a scruffy solution to the problem. To take an example from database design, you would keep these options as field data, not field definitions. The latter is too restrictive. Mike Piff %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %% Dr M J Piff, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of %% %% Sheffield, UK. e-mail: M.Piff@sheffield.ac.uk %% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%