X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["1429" "Thu" "9" "October" "1997" "11:16:00" "+0100" "Sebastian Rahtz" "s.rahtz@ELSEVIER.CO.UK" nil "33" "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 MAA13039; Thu, 9 Oct 1997 12:34:19 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <1.176F3F64@listserv.gmd.de>; Thu, 9 Oct 1997 12:34:04 +0200 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 211222 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Thu, 9 Oct 1997 12:33:54 +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 MAA29876 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 1997 12:33:50 +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 LAA03865 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 1997 11:32:50 +0100 (BST) Received: from SRAHTZ (actually host srahtz.elsevier.co.uk) by snowdon.elsevier.co.uk with SMTP (PP); Thu, 9 Oct 1997 11:33:18 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <97100910521469@multivac.jb.man.ac.uk> X-Mailer: VM 6.33 under Emacs 19.34.6 Message-ID: <9620-Thu09Oct1997111600+0100-s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: <97100910521469@multivac.jb.man.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 11:16:00 +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: 2418 > Should one break the author's name up into initials and surnames, so > that the order could be different in the main title and the running head > and/or different than the order in which the author would have put them you mean the running head might say "Einstein, A"? all i can say is that i have not been ever asked to do it... > I hadn't been thinking of the abstract as part of the front matter > (probably because it normally comes after \maketitle) but perhaps I > should be. if you consider a two column layout, with front matter set over both columns, it becomes important to know where front matter starts and stops. one of our journals puts the abstract as a footnote :-} > Other comments? What about the `affiliations' and other environments with > the label-reference mechanism? i didn't personally like the layout very much, but leave that aside for now. the important thing is whether people think the necessary information is all in place. re dates, i note that we support received, revised, accepted, and communicated. you only have 3 fields. by the way, i think that using multiple parameters in this, and other, macros is not very friendly. why not adopt the keyval syntax, ie \date{communicated=xxxx,revised=xxxx} which allows a more elegant way to omit arguments, and identify what you are doing. i know its just sugar, but it would make bits of what you suggest easier to read sebastian