X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["414" "Wed" "25" "June" "1997" "10:55:24" "+0100" "Sebastian Rahtz" "s.rahtz@ELSEVIER.CO.UK" nil "9" "Re: Availability of Class files" "^Date:" nil nil "6" nil nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from listserv.gmd.de (listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.1]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA22715; Wed, 25 Jun 1997 11:55:31 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <15.2432706A@listserv.gmd.de>; Wed, 25 Jun 1997 11:55:29 +0200 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 159411 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Wed, 25 Jun 1997 11:55:21 +0200 Received: from pillar.elsevier.co.uk (root@pillar.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.222.35]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.7.6/8.7.4) with ESMTP id LAA27096 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 1997 11:55:14 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from snowdon.elsevier.co.uk (snowdon.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.197.164]) by pillar.elsevier.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA11563 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 1997 10:51:27 +0100 (BST) Received: from cadair.elsevier.co.uk by snowdon.elsevier.co.uk with SMTP (PP); Wed, 25 Jun 1997 10:55:49 +0100 Received: from knott.elsevier.co.uk (knott.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.197.165]) by cadair.elsevier.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA11617 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 1997 10:55:45 +0100 (BST) Received: (from srahtz@localhost) by knott.elsevier.co.uk (8.8.3/8.8.5) id KAA22635; Wed, 25 Jun 1997 10:55:24 +0100 (BST) References: <199706242245.PAA11197@math.uci.edu> Message-ID: <199706250955.KAA22635@knott.elsevier.co.uk> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: <199706242245.PAA11197@math.uci.edu> Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 10:55:24 +0100 From: Sebastian Rahtz Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: Availability of Class files Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 2180 > If you look at these classes, they point to some problem which will > grow in the future: The standard LaTeX classes have a rather > restricted set of front matter commands. So every publisher is > extending them in mutually incompatible ways. I agree 110% about this. Front matter is an area that causes immense pain and suffering for all concerned, and a standard markup would be a huge plus. Sebastian