Received: from mail.proteosys.com ([213.139.130.197]) by nummer-3.proteosys with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Fri, 5 Dec 2003 23:09:39 +0100 Received: by mail.proteosys.com (8.12.10/8.12.2) with ESMTP id hB5M9ZHV022384 for ; Fri, 5 Dec 2003 23:09:36 +0100 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.27]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id hB5LxJiv028892; Fri, 5 Dec 2003 22:59:19 +0100 (MET) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C3BB7C.79C81380" Received: from listserv (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.27]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.3/8.12.3/SuSE Linux 0.6) with ESMTP id hB56por3003577; Fri, 5 Dec 2003 22:51:59 +0100 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 2102 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Fri, 5 Dec 2003 22:51:59 +0100 Received: from relay.uni-heidelberg.de (relay.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.212]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.3/8.12.3/SuSE Linux 0.6) with ESMTP id hB5LpxZt013621 for ; Fri, 5 Dec 2003 22:51:59 +0100 Received: from A1.atlis.com (host5.atlis.com [216.181.97.5]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id hB5Lwiiv028760 for ; Fri, 5 Dec 2003 22:58:49 +0100 (MET) Received: from atlis.com (host-216-153-178-55.har.choiceone.net [216.153.178.55]) by A1.atlis.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id hB5M3Qu05372 for ; Fri, 5 Dec 2003 17:03:26 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wadams@atlis.com) In-Reply-To: Organization: Atlis Systems, Inc. (301) 578-4200 info@atlis.com Return-Path: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.552) X-OriginalArrivalTime: 05 Dec 2003 22:09:39.0480 (UTC) FILETIME=[7A115180:01C3BB7C] X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.28 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) X-Spam-Score: 0 () Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: latex template design style Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 22:58:34 +0100 Message-ID: A<2BD713C8-276E-11D8-A703-0050E4455404@atlis.com> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: latex template design style Thread-Index: AcO7fHqU0+tbg69tRbW7mmU/wzdVyA== From: "William F. Adams" To: Reply-To: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 4743 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C3BB7C.79C81380 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Did anyone ever volunteer for this? I've been working my way through some things at work and for TUGboat and've had some thoughts along these lines, which I've just posted to comp.text.tex---assuming my reasoning is decently good, and no one else has volunteered, I'd like to look into this once I've finished up two things for TUGboat. Here's the post to CTT: Here's a question I've tried to pose elsewhere and will shamelessly insert here: Will matters like this be addressed / ameliorated / solved by Latex3? (See Frank Mittelbach's post that now that the new edition of the Latex Companion is done he'll have time to work on Latex3 again). For my part, I'd really like to see a more granular approach to documentclasses and packages so that it would be easier to integrate different bits reliably. say something like: %\language[American]{English} \languages{English, Chinese, Finish, Spanish} \typespecification[headings]{Univers-condensed} \typespecification[captions]{Univers} \typespecification[text, 10]{TimesTen} \typespecification[math]{Euler} \typespecification[monospace]{Courier} \pagelayout[cropmarks, sheet-information, picas, 36 x 54, golden]{classics} \documentclass[final]{memoir} \outputformat[colour, links]{pdf} \shorthandmacros{physics} \shorthandmacros{AMS} \authormacros{kaplan} \begin{document} \frontmatter \chapterstyle[centered]{brooks-cole} \textblock \chapterstyle[ruled]{brooks-cole} \backmatter \chapterstyle[small]{brooks-cole} \end{document} Maybe I'm a wuss---but I find umpteen dozen iterations of \usepackage confusing.... A while back there was a request on the latex3 list to have a prototypical style design template written up---anyone stepped up to try that? (I've only got two things to do and then I can try ;) William ------_=_NextPart_001_01C3BB7C.79C81380 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable latex template design style

Did anyone ever volunteer for this?

I've been working my way through some things at work = and for TUGboat
and've had some thoughts along these lines, which = I've just posted to
comp.text.tex---assuming my reasoning is decently = good, and no one else
has volunteered, I'd like to look into this once I've = finished up two
things for TUGboat.

Here's the post to CTT:

Here's a question I've tried to pose elsewhere and = will shamelessly
insert here:

Will matters like this be addressed / ameliorated / = solved by Latex3?
(See Frank Mittelbach's post that now that the new = edition of the Latex
Companion is done he'll have time to work on Latex3 = again).

For my part, I'd really like to see a more granular = approach to
documentclasses and packages so that it would be = easier to integrate
different bits reliably.

say something like:

%\language[American]{English}
\languages{English, Chinese, Finish, Spanish}

\typespecification[headings]{Univers-condensed}
\typespecification[captions]{Univers}
\typespecification[text, 10]{TimesTen}
\typespecification[math]{Euler}
\typespecification[monospace]{Courier}

\pagelayout[cropmarks, sheet-information, picas, 36 x = 54,
golden]{classics}

\documentclass[final]{memoir}

\outputformat[colour, links]{pdf}

\shorthandmacros{physics}
\shorthandmacros{AMS}

\authormacros{kaplan}

\begin{document}
\frontmatter
\chapterstyle[centered]{brooks-cole}

\textblock
\chapterstyle[ruled]{brooks-cole}

\backmatter
\chapterstyle[small]{brooks-cole}

\end{document}

Maybe I'm a wuss---but I find umpteen dozen iterations = of \usepackage
confusing....

A while back there was a request on the latex3 list to = have a
prototypical style design template written = up---anyone stepped up to
try that? (I've only got two things to do and then I = can try ;)

William

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