X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["805" "Fri" "22" "November" "1996" "16:49:40" "+0100" "Werner Lemberg" "xlwy01@uxp1.hrz.uni-dortmund.de" "" "22" "Re: International documents" "^Date:" nil nil "11" "1996112215:49:40" "International documents" nil "<199611211452.PAA17610@daimi.aau.dk>"] nil) Received: from listserv.gmd.de (listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.1]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA02239; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 17:07:04 +0100 (MET) Received: from listserv.gmd.de by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <11.0B431013@listserv.gmd.de>; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 17:07:02 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 279541 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 17:05:23 +0100 Received: from nx1.HRZ.Uni-Dortmund.DE (nx1.HRZ.Uni-Dortmund.DE [129.217.131.3]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.7.6/8.7.4) with ESMTP id QAA08503 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 16:58:31 +0100 (MET) Received: from uxp1c.hrz.uni-dortmund.de by nx1.hrz.uni-dortmund.de with SMTP (PP); Fri, 22 Nov 1996 16:49:49 +0100 Received: from localhost by uxp1c.hrz.uni-dortmund.de (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id QAA21109; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 16:49:41 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Message-ID: Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: <199611211452.PAA17610@daimi.aau.dk> Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 16:49:40 +0100 From: Werner Lemberg Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: International documents Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 1773 On Thu, 21 Nov 1996, Soren Sandmann Pedersen wrote: > However, the standard classes are not really suitable for many languages. > Using my own first language, Danish, as example, such things as > > * The section numbers should be postfixed with a dot. I.e., > 1. This is the first section > * The margins are too wide, especially when using a5 paper > > are not featured in the standard classes. Take a look into the Koma-Skript package. It contains a low-lewel interface where you can handle such things quite easily (this interface was originally designed for Asiatic languages where you have a pre- and a postfix to the section numbers). I suggested such an interface a few months ago here on this list, but without any results. Maybe we can reinitialize this thread. Werner