At 11.23 +0200 2001-08-31, Peter Trifonov wrote: >Hello, all! > >I think it would be useful to replace all constants appearing in various >style files with symbolic names and store their values in separate files >(e.g. stylename.val). This will significantly simplify style customization >(and, probably, improve performance), since sometimes the only difference >between style provided by standard LaTeX and one required by a particular >document is e.g. size of space between chapter name and its first paragraph. Using the template package (in http://www.latex-project.org/code/experimental/template/ ) makes such "parametrization" quite straightforward. Lars Hellström