Re: [Docutils-develop] biblio. fields in latex writer

[Beni C. <cb...@us...>]

eng...@ss... wrote on 2003-09-11:

> > I think that we should keep the look-and-feel of LaTeX's titlepages,
> > with authors and date without any "Author:" and "Date:" prefixes and
> > with other bib. fields in smaller font (but bigger than in
> > document) after some vertical space, with field names but not in bold
> > (otherwise they would draw too much attention from the titlepage).
> >
> > What do you think?
>
> looks silly sometimes, e.g. title, author, date are from latex
> one other line is a docutils docinfo.
>
I now think date should not be LaTeX's, it's no more special than
organization or contact...  However, title and author, in my
(not-so-humble in this case ;) opinion should be shown simply by
central location and font size, as LaTeX does.  They are, after all,
the two most important things about a document.  It's not accidental
that LaTeX paid special attention to only a few things.

> and this would not mean
> > I think that we should keep the look-and-feel of LaTeX's titlepages,
>
> maybe additional info could be put on the backside of the titlepage.

Perhaps (for classes with a titlepage).  It also avoids the danger of
overloading the front page.  It'd be nice to leave it open to the
user.

> (or we could put it into the stylesheet. problem is how to put the
> stylesheet does not know the fieldnames)
>
That's most probably the best approach.  We can expose the fieldnames
(all of them, duplicating ``\title`` and friends which would remain
only for benefit of programs that catalogue latex documents, etc.) as
macros; this way the stylesheet could use them or not.  An
inconvenient point is that the stylesheet must know which fields are
present and which aren't; if we reverse it and make the writer emit
commands that the stylesheet should define, e.g.::

    \showtitle{title}
    \showauthor{author}
    ...
    \showgeneric{Foo}{bar}

etc., then the writer is forcing the order of the fields - is this an
issue?

-- 
Beni Cherniavsky <cb...@us...>