X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["625" "Mon" "6" "October" "1997" "09:59:18" "+0100" "Sebastian Rahtz" "s.rahtz@ELSEVIER.CO.UK" nil "17" "Re: LaTeX journal and publisher macros" "^Date:" nil nil "10" 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 LAA14844; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 11:12:38 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <15.371C8BD6@listserv.gmd.de>; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 11:12:36 +0200 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 208657 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 11:12:30 +0200 Received: from pillar.elsevier.co.uk (root@pillar.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.222.35]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA07574 for ; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 11:12:26 +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 KAA28560 for ; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 10:11:22 +0100 (BST) Received: from SRAHTZ (actually host srahtz.elsevier.co.uk) by snowdon.elsevier.co.uk with SMTP (PP); Mon, 6 Oct 1997 10:11:21 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <97100115382274@multivac.jb.man.ac.uk> X-Mailer: VM 6.33 under Emacs 19.34.6 Message-ID: <3997-Mon06Oct1997095918+0100-s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 09:59:18 +0100 From: Sebastian Rahtz Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: LaTeX journal and publisher macros Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 2346 Hans Aberg writes: > So it appears that what is needed is a document hierarchy: > \documentclass{journal} % Start of journal class > \begin{document} > > \documentclass{article} % Start of article 1 class > \begin{document} > %% Article 1 stuff > \end{document} % End of article 1 class this has been suggested before now, and there have been attempts at implementation by eg Matt Swift (see TUG 1995 proceedings), and Robin Fairbairns for TUGboat. perhaps Robin could comment on whether/if/why his work foundered? i agree that its an interesting subject... sebastian