> Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 08:08:52 -0600 (MDT)
> From: "Joe Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> >
> > But can I modify the behavior of any part of LaTeX, including what
> > happens when I load article.sty?
>
> Yes. But in order to do so, you either have to:
> 1) request such a change in your document (\documentclass{myarticle}, or
> \renewcommand\documentclass or something like that)
> or
> 2) Modify latex.ltx so that it looks for myarticle.sty when a document asks
> for article.sty (but since latex.ltx is covered by the LPPL, you would have
> to change the name of it, invoking it by a different name such as notLaTeX)
> or
> 3) Place your modified article.sty in a different location, where "pristine"
> LaTeX will not pick it up and behave silently different.
>
What about the fourth option: put the changes in the article.cfg file,
which is automatically loaded after article.sty and can override this?
This roughly equivalent to texsys.cfg file patching plain.tex or
tex.ch file patching tex.web.
--
Good luck
-Boris
I have a switch in my apartment that doesn't do anything. Every once
in a while I turn it on and off. On and off. On and off. One day I
got a call from a woman in France who said "Cut it out!"
-- Steven Wright
