Hi, Robert --
This gets me still closer. Using the revised class definition, I get
exactly what I need except that I'm still left with square brackets in
tex file. That is, I want this:
\begin{questions} or \begin{parts}
but instead I get this:
\begin[]{questions} or \begin[]{parts}
(Those two places are now the only places where the empty square
brackets show up, and I don't have any of the empty curly brackets.)
If I remove those square brackets and run latex on the changed file,
then I get what I want in the pdf.
I was using a fairly recent version (8.0.3) from git; I've now upgraded
to 8.0.5 from git and get the same result.
I see Charles's suggestion to define a filter to take out the brackets
(thanks for that) -- I'm afraid I'm on the edge of my knowledge so I'll
need more time to sort that one out.
Thanks for your help.
--
John Rakestraw