Received: from webgate.proteosys.de (mail.proteosys-ag.com [62.225.9.49]) by lucy.proteosys (8.11.0/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id f7V9k0902372 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 11:46:00 +0200 Received: by webgate.proteosys.de (8.11.4/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f7V9k0T20845 . for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 11:46:00 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C13201.BD937C00" Received: from mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (mailserver1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.8.30]) by mailgate1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.11.0/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f7V9jxG07948 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 11:45:59 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mailgate1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (mailgate1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.8.56]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA20220 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 11:45:58 +0200 (MEST) Received: from relay.uni-heidelberg.de (relay.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.212]) by mailgate1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.11.0/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f7V9jwG07944 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 11:45:58 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.27]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.10.2+Sun/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f7V9Tkb21515; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 11:29:46 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from listserv (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.27]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.11.3/8.11.3/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) with ESMTP id f7V9Sxo07298; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 11:28:59 +0200 Received: from LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8d) with spool id 0399 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 11:28:13 +0200 Received: from relay.uni-heidelberg.de (relay.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.212]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.11.3/8.11.3/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) with ESMTP id f7V9IDo07214 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 11:18:13 +0200 Received: from ns.xj.dcn (gw-9cor.infos.ru [195.209.229.106]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.10.2+Sun/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f7V9Iwb19182 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 11:18:58 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from bug (node103.xj.dcn [10.0.103.103]) by ns.xj.dcn (Postfix) with SMTP id 187D454B3 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 13:28:02 +0400 (MSD) Return-Path: X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: LATEX3 parametrization Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 10:23:17 +0100 Message-ID: <002f01c131fe$91e6c9c0$6767000a@nord.nw.ru> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Peter Trifonov" Sender: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" To: Reply-To: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 4148 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C13201.BD937C00 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello, all! I think it would be useful to replace all constants appearing in various style files with symbolic names and store their values in separate = files (e.g. stylename.val). This will significantly simplify style = customization (and, probably, improve performance), since sometimes the only = difference between style provided by standard LaTeX and one required by a = particular document is e.g. size of space between chapter name and its first = paragraph. With best regards, P. Trifonov ------_=_NextPart_001_01C13201.BD937C00 Content-Type: text/html; charset="koi8-r" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable LATEX3 parametrization

Hello, all!

I think it would be useful to replace all constants = appearing in various
style files with symbolic  names and store their = values in separate files
(e.g. stylename.val). This will significantly = simplify style customization
(and, probably, improve performance), since sometimes = the only difference
between style provided by standard LaTeX and one = required by a particular
document is e.g. size of space between chapter name = and its first paragraph.


With best regards, P. Trifonov

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