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Date:         Mon, 14 Mar 1994 21:19:12 MEZ
From: Werner Lemberg <A7621GAC@helios.edvz.univie.ac.at>
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Subject:      Re: Headers in the standard styles
Status: R

>WL> I therefore suggest additional macros like
>WL>       \postchaptername
>WL>       \postpartname      etc.
>WL> to be included in the standard styles. I think this does not cause any
>WL> incompatibilites with existing documents using \chapter etc. without
>WL> modifications.
>
>This point goes directly to implementation of this feature and itsn't the
>time for that because we only collect the features, the habits, the
>mechanisms, etc. that need to be looked at before any implementation
>could take place.

Well, here is a piece of macro code which seems to me quite `global':

    in  \@part:

\let\prepartname=\partname

\Large\bfseries \prepartname\prepartspace\thepart\postpartspace\postpartname

and similar macros for chapter etc.


E.g., for Chinese you would have

      \prepartname{di4}
      \prepartspace{}
      \postpartspace{}
      \postpartname{bu4fen}

(but `Appendix~A' becomes `fu4ran~A')

 (numbers after the Chinese syllables indicate the speaking tones)

The same grammatical pattern holds for Korean also.


I hope that these changes can be included soon -- it's a great nuisance to
rewrite macros like \chapter for each language, and I believe that the
world wide acceptance of TeX would increase with easy to write language
packages.

This more than a `typographic habit in a specific area' -- it's grammar.


    Werner