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Timothy Murphy <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 14 Aug 2002 12:47:48 +0100
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On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 12:25:17PM +0200, Daniel Arteaga wrote:
> The creation of a new LaTeX class requires a deep knowledge of TeX and
> LaTeX, and cannot be easily done by a "normal" user. There are not a lot
> of general purpose alternatives, and most of the people continues using
> standard LaTeX classes (specially article). However, many times standard
> classes are not completely satisfactory, and it is a usual practice to
> manually adapt titles, margins, spacings, headings, etc. in a not always
> optimum way. In most cases, the best would be to have a new adapted
> LaTeX class.

Why not just write a package file (*.sty)
to re-define those macros you don't like?


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