Mark Steinberger writes: > There may well be many more class files out there than are currently > available on CTAN. > > For instance, nyj.cls, the class for the New York Journal of > Mathematics, has never been posted to CTAN (but will be, shortly). > > I suggest some kind of call for submissions to the contrib/supported > section of CTAN's latex section. I suspect there would be a great > many of them. i think that collecting and documenting available (and not yet available) class files for LaTeX would be a very valid and important work. but it would need some coordination and one or more volunteers to write to the various publishers of journals and books and to produce a short overview document on all the classes included. > It might make sense to include these classes as an official part of > latex, so the commercial distributions will include them as well. the problem with that is that it would directly bounce back to the latex team in form of support questions so i think it can not be part of core. but if we have such a collection it wouldn't be too difficult to integrate it nevertheless into all major distributions. is there anybody willing to work on such a collection? it would sure help the LaTeX community a lot. frank