X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["882" "Thu" " 5" "May" "1994" "10:12:46" "EDT" "Andrea Sterbini" "andrea@DSI.UNIROMA1.IT" nil "24" "A suggestion for the graphic packages" "^Date:" nil nil "5" nil nil nil nil] nil) Return-Path: <@tubvm.cs.tu-berlin.de:owner-latex-l@VM.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE> Received: from sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (mailserv) by dagobert.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.1/SMI-4.0/24.6.93) id AA14189; Thu, 5 May 94 10:15:22 +0200 Received: from mail.cs.tu-berlin.de by sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.1/SMI-4.0-sc/03.06.93) id AA27954; Thu, 5 May 94 10:14:57 +0200 Received: from tubvm.cs.tu-berlin.de (tubvm.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.18.12]) by mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (8.6.7/8.6.6) with SMTP id KAA05019 for <@MAIL.CS.TU-BERLIN.DE:Schoepf@SC.ZIB-BERLIN.DE>; Thu, 5 May 1994 10:14:50 +0200 Message-Id: <199405050814.KAA05019@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 5989; Thu, 05 May 94 10:15:58 +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 5988; Thu, 5 May 1994 10:15:55 +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 7532; Thu, 5 May 1994 10:13:39 +0000 Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Date: Thu, 5 May 1994 10:12:46 EDT From: Andrea Sterbini Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: A suggestion for the graphic packages Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 1615 Hi, I am implementing a LaTeX 2.09 style that replaces every "picture" environment with an empty box, and that deactivates every graphic command inside the environment to speed-up the "draft" compilations of a document. In this way all the floats go to the corect places and the passes needed to get correct references are fast. I suggest that all the graphic packages and classes in LaTeX 2e (and in future LaTeX 3) accept the option "nopic" (or a similar standard option) so that, with this option, all the drawing commands have an empty body. I think that the implementors of the graphic packages are the best suited people to make a similar modification ... Happy LaTeX-ing Andrea -- Andrea Sterbini \ Computer Science Dept. \ " ... life, don't tell me about life ... " Rome Univ. "La Sapienza" \ Marvin andrea@dsi.uniroma1.it \