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

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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)

correct

> > 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.

this was just a note, i donot know anything more about it.

i just learned this recently, and if have no idea how much this is needed.
this way we would not have to know which package uses which option,
but then again we might have to know what options to give to
documentclass.

> 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.

fine with me.

> > and we need documented stylefiles so people have an idea what to use
> > it for.
>
> You mean, provide a few documented examples?

yes

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