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 f7VAJs902517 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 12:19:55 +0200 Received: by webgate.proteosys.de (8.11.4/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f7VAJsT21045 . for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 12:19:54 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (mailserver1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.8.30]) by mailgate2.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.11.0/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f7VAJrJ00201 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 12:19:53 +0200 (MET DST) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C13206.7A87D780" 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 MAA28475 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 12:19:50 +0200 (MEST) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 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 f7VAJoG11096 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 12:19:50 +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 f7VA5gb29856; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 12:05:42 +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 f7VA4uo07833; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 12:04:56 +0200 Received: from LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8d) with spool id 0535 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 12:04:55 +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 f7VA4to07827 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 12:04:55 +0200 Received: from mail.umu.se (custer.umdac.umu.se [130.239.8.14]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.10.2+Sun/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f7VA5db29832 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 12:05:39 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from [130.239.20.144] (mac144.math.umu.se [130.239.20.144]) by mail.umu.se (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA12074 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 12:05:38 +0200 (MET DST) In-Reply-To: <002f01c131fe$91e6c9c0$6767000a@nord.nw.ru> Return-Path: X-Sender: lars@abel.math.umu.se x-mime-autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de id f7VA4to07828 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: Re: LATEX3 parametrization Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 11:05:30 +0100 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Lars_Hellstr=F6m?= Sender: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" To: Reply-To: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 4151 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C13206.7A87D780 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable At 11.23 +0200 2001-08-31, Peter Trifonov wrote: >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. Using the template package (in http://www.latex-project.org/code/experimental/template/ ) makes such "parametrization" quite straightforward. Lars Hellstr=F6m ------_=_NextPart_001_01C13206.7A87D780 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: LATEX3 parametrization

At 11.23 +0200 2001-08-31, Peter Trifonov = wrote:
>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.

Using the template package (in
http://= www.latex-project.org/code/experimental/template/ ) makes = such
"parametrization" quite = straightforward.

Lars Hellstr=F6m

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