Received: from mail.proteosys.com ([62.225.9.49]) by nummer-3.proteosys with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5329); Wed, 14 Aug 2002 14:04:20 +0200 Received: by mail.proteosys.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g7EC4JVP028403 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 14:04:19 +0200 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.27]) by relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g7EBmnn5020600; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 13:48:50 +0200 (MET DST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C2438A.B883FA00" Received: from listserv (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.27]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.2/8.12.2/SuSE Linux 0.6) with ESMTP id g7E3q19C009281; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 13:48:37 +0200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Received: from LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8d) with spool id 4300 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 13:48:37 +0200 Received: from relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (relay2.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.210.211]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.2/8.12.2/SuSE Linux 0.6) with ESMTP id g7EBmb3s013593 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 13:48:37 +0200 Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (mmdf@salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.4/8.12.4) with SMTP id g7EBmin5020550 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 13:48:44 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from somewhere by salmon.maths.tcd.ie via UUCP id ; 14 Aug 2002 12:48:44 +0100 (BST) Received: (from tim@localhost) by alfred.murphy.ie (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g7EBln917564 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 12:47:49 +0100 In-Reply-To: <3D5A300D.3801A7AE@ffn.ub.es>; from darteaga@FFN.UB.ES on Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 12:25:17PM +0200 References: <3D5A300D.3801A7AE@ffn.ub.es> Return-Path: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 14 Aug 2002 12:04:21.0155 (UTC) FILETIME=[B9343730:01C2438A] User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.6 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: Re: LaTeX classes Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 12:47:48 +0100 Message-ID: A<20020814124748.A17561@birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Re: LaTeX classes Thread-Index: AcJDirlji0KgYSQyRz+Bu5mEMUTpWQ== From: "Timothy Murphy" To: Reply-To: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 4359 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C2438A.B883FA00 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 12:25:17PM +0200, Daniel Arteaga wrote: > The creation of a new LaTeX class requires a deep knowledge of TeX and > LaTeX, and cannot be easily done by a "normal" user. There are not a = lot > of general purpose alternatives, and most of the people continues = using > standard LaTeX classes (specially article). However, many times = standard > classes are not completely satisfactory, and it is a usual practice to > manually adapt titles, margins, spacings, headings, etc. in a not = always > optimum way. In most cases, the best would be to have a new adapted > LaTeX class. Why not just write a package file (*.sty) to re-define those macros you don't like? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: tim@birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: 086-233 6090 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland ------_=_NextPart_001_01C2438A.B883FA00 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: LaTeX classes

On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 12:25:17PM +0200, Daniel = Arteaga wrote:
> The creation of a new LaTeX class requires a = deep knowledge of TeX and
> LaTeX, and cannot be easily done by a = "normal" user. There are not a lot
> of general purpose alternatives, and most of the = people continues using
> standard LaTeX classes (specially article). = However, many times standard
> classes are not completely satisfactory, and it = is a usual practice to
> manually adapt titles, margins, spacings, = headings, etc. in a not always
> optimum way. In most cases, the best would be to = have a new adapted
> LaTeX class.

Why not just write a package file (*.sty)
to re-define those macros you don't like?


--
Timothy Murphy
e-mail: tim@birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
tel: 086-233 6090
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, = Dublin 2, Ireland

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