Hello, On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 12:20:28PM +0100, Frank Mittelbach wrote: > Achim Blumensath writes: > > > one head-package used (which never made it to the experimental > > directory, but it should be somewhere in the mailing list archives). > > adding Peter's contribution was not meant as a value statement one way or the > other. I know. I just wanted to point out that there are some examples that aren't on your site. > so if you dig up your attempt i'll put it side-long (or anything else > for that matter as long as it is documented and helps in thinking further > about these matters) I've attached my version of the head-package and also the page layout package I've written some while ago. > what the disucssion so far tells me (though that isn't really surprising :-) > is that what is really missing is thinking further about the interfaces > itself, e.g. > > - what kind of template-type (s) is wanted, what exactly should it do? > - what are the explicit/implicit inputs? Wouldn't this be a great volunteer project for people who like to contribute but lack the TeX skills to actually write the code? As a first step one could compile a list of possible templates/template types one would need to implement all the features the standard classes provide. Achim -- ________________________________________________________________________ | \_____/ | Achim Blumensath \O/ \___/\ | Mathematische Grundlagen der Informatik =o= \ /\ \| www-mgi.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~blume /"\ o----| ____________________________________________________________________\___|