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

[Julien L. <me...@fr...>]

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)

> 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.

> 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.

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?

Cheers,

-- julien