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Date:         Mon, 6 Oct 1997 12:37:25 +0200
From: Bernard GAULLE <gaulle@IDRIS.FR>
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Subject:      Re: LaTeX journal and publisher macros
Status: R

>>>>> On Mon, 6 Oct 1997 09:59:18 +0100,
>>>>>    Sebastian Rahtz <s.rahtz@ELSEVIER.CO.UK> write about "Re: LaTeX journal and publisher macros":
SR> 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

[...]
SR> i agree that its an interesting subject...

all users working as editor agree and wish (since... a long time)
to be able to include articles in a report (or journal), reports
in a book, ... without any modification. It looks like the Multi Master
Fonts... we need a mechanism for our personnal cooking. So, may be,
the document hierarchy should not exactly be seen as suggested but
preferably like this:

\documentclass{MyJournal}
\usepackage[WithToc,WithoutIndex,% some global options of interest
            DeferedBiblio,EvenStartingPage]{mmarticle}
   \begin{document}

     \begin{mmarticle}
     \documentclass{article}     % Start of article 1 class
     \begin{document}
       %% Article 1 stuff
     \end{document}              % End of article 1 class
     \end{mmarticle}

This scheme suggests that there is not a lot of stuff to include in
the LaTeX kernel and that, probably, the most important part of
the job could be done inside a [standard] package.

  --bg