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

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On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Beni Cherniavsky wrote:

> Beni Cherniavsky wrote on 2003-09-10:
>
> > I believe the only sensible way is to make our own titlepage with it.
> > For document classes other than report and book, the `titlepage` env
> > should be omitted and the same(?) output should be generated on the
> > same page (are there other differences between the styles?).  I'll now
> > try to look at the latex sources for the default title pages...
> >
> They have some frightening code (as expected ;), mostly because:
>
> 1. All(?) classes support making a separate title page or putting it
>    at the top of the first page (default depends on class but you can
>    override with the ``titlepage``/``notitlepage`` options).  However
>    only `article` and `report` actually implement ``\maketitle`` and
>    they seem to implement it in the same way...
>
> 2. They support bogus ``\and`` instead of ``\\`` and ``\thanks``
>    instead of ``\footnote`` which we don't need.  Removing this cruft,
>    our titlepage would not be so complex.  I can rip most of it from
>    the LaTeX sources to preserve look-and-feel.
>
> 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.

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.
(or we could put it into the stylesheet.
 problem is how to put the stylesheet does not know the fieldnames)

cheers
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