"Robin Fairbairns" <[log in to unmask]>, 28.10.2010 13:54:02 >Uwe Lueck wrote: >> This also reminds me of memoir.cls, "endorsing" (copying) certain >> "standard" packages; yet I have never studied by which commands the >> features of those packages are accessed by the user. > > memoir uses the code of packages that peter wilson wrote as he was > designing ... memoir. i don't think i would have spotted the purpose of > the packages if peter hadn't occasionally mentioned it when submitting > packages. In the first instance, once I learnt it from Lars Madsen. Now I have found patchcmd, (on searching for ` package ': ) array, dcolumn, delarray, tabularx, booktabs. I also once found the special footnote styles according to TeXbook pp. 395ff., probably from EDMAC via ledmac. The latter is a real gain because ledmac itself has turned out to be incompatible with a number of standard packages (due to its method of numbering lines, I think) -- and moreover, the "columnar" footnote style isn't available from manyfoot. > as a development strategy, it seems quite neat, to me ... but it does > make faq answer-writing a little tortuous: "you can use memoir or > koma-script or package x, y or z to do this; package y is actually part > of memoir". When I learnt this about memoir, I found it remarkable as I had been urged to create such an "all-in-one-package" earlier (I didn't). Cheers, Uwe.