On Wed, 18 Dec 1996, David Carlisle wrote: > > How much of this could be automated for LaTeX? > > All of it, probably? It depends a bit where you want the automation to > start. You describe three `paragraph styles' called `b' `c' `d' > (perhaps there is a fourth, `a' ? Hart's is in the library across the > road:-) Probably each of these could be set in TeX. > > It becomes hard if you need to make the choice of which paragraph > shape to use automatically, ie do you know that for a given class of > documents you can set all footnotes run on in style `d', or do you > need, on each page, to inspect the texts gathered and decide a > `suitable' paragraph style for setting those texts? > > David Ideally, the last. P de B