Re: [Docutils-develop] Re: Style sheet [was: LaTeX/PDF critique]

[<gr...@us...>]

sorry i try once again

On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Julien Letessier wrote:

> On mardi, nov 12, 2002, at 07:59 Europe/Paris,
> gr...@us... wrote:
>
> > style.tex should hold: the font (as sayed earlier palatino make pdfs
> > bigger)
> >
> > settings required for proper layout should be set by the writer
> > (written
> > to the output): this concerns your solution for footnotes and figures.
>
> sounds logical. i'll hard-code my TeX hacks into latex2e.py (if that's
> what you mean)

yes

> > the inclusion of the style file should be done after setting defaults,
> > so there is a possibility to overwrite defaults.
>
> yep, I'm perfectly okay ith that.

a suggestion from me, do you think it will work or must we expect
that some packages donot allow re-use or will collide.

> > caveats: if an option is given to the documentclass other packages
> >   recognize it automatically (at least i read so), otherwise every
> >   concerned package needs the option (it said so in th FM).
>
> As  a TeXnician, I've always considered as a bad habit using
> 'documentclass' options to set defaults for the various packages --
> rather specify the options exactly when needed. But if it makes your
> life easier, fine.

as a simple latex user i have no opinion. just tell what i read.
i am only concerned to not code to much knowledge (which package needs
which options) into the writer.

> One point though -- I think we should keep the 'geometry' package
> included -- the '\geometry' command can be used in the stylesheet to
> modify the settings.
>
> > and we need documented stylefiles so people have an idea what to use
> > it for.
>
> You mean, provide a few documented examples?

yes. should go into latex writer doc (=docs/latex_writer.txt ?)

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