X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["1123" "Thu" "16" "October" "1997" "18:33:41" "GMT" "Phillip Helbig" "helbig@MULTIVAC.JB.MAN.AC.UK" nil "26" "Re: frontmatter 98" "^Date:" nil nil "10" nil "frontmatter 98" 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 TAA04805; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 19:38:08 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <11.7D290D54@listserv.gmd.de>; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 19:38:06 +0200 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 216529 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 19:37:57 +0200 Received: from multivac (multivac.jb.man.ac.uk [130.88.24.128]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id TAA10424 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 19:37:54 +0200 (MET DST) X-VMS-To: SMTP%"LATEX-L@relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de" X-VMS-Cc: HELBIG Message-ID: <97101618334115@multivac.jb.man.ac.uk> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 18:33:41 GMT From: Phillip Helbig Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: frontmatter 98 Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 2476 Just to organise the discussion a bit, perhaps it should proceed in 5 steps (perhaps partially simultaneously): 1. Agree on WHAT INFORMATION needs to be provided 2. Agree on HOW IT SHOULD BE DIVIDED UP (all information about one author grouped together, all addresses together, leave both possibilities open,...) 3. Agree on a SYNTAX (keywords or not,...) and requirements on how they are to be interpreted by various .cls (unused things must be understood but annoyed,...) 4. Additional items: should `unwanted' commands be redefined to give error messages (to prevent the author attempting visual formatting, for example, or using \thanks,...),... 5. Implementing all of this -- Phillip Helbig Email ... helbig@multivac.jb.man.ac.uk Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories Tel. ..... +44 1477 571 321 (ext. 297) Jodrell Bank Fax ................. +44 1477 571 618 Macclesfield Telex ................. 36149 JODREL G UK-Cheshire SK11 9DL Web .... http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/~pjh/