On Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 07:04:33PM -0600, Edmar Wienskoski Jr. wrote:
>
> No, that is not entirely true. Actually, the fact that "return" ends
> a layout is not even a concern (I can use alt-return instead of plain ret...)
> The problem, is that if you define the Scrap layout to be anything different
> than "Environment" or "Item_Environment" then each line in the code will be
> treated as a paragraph, and the output will have many empty lines. Example:
If you're willing to use alt-return, though, then why can't you just call it
type Paragraph? Then
foo C-Return
bar
should yield
foo
bar
on output. Right?
> That reminds me: I also have a thesis.layout class and the corresponding
> thesis.cls for latex I wrote for my thesis. I don't know if other
> universities have similar thesis formats or if they are all diferent
> (Rice format has a lot of pick details..).
> Anyway, if you think a thesis.layout class is a valid contribution,
> I can submit a patch for that one too.
>
This is a great idea, as long as the thesis is latex2e. I've seen a bunch of
thesis style files floating around, but many (including the one I need to use
:( ) are latex209. It would be even better if the thesis.cls is a small file.
Again, the old files I've seen actually define description environment, etc.
They're basically slightly edited copies of report or book class, which they
shouldn't have to be. At least I think so. It seems to me you ought to be able
to have some sort of "derived from class article" (either with a thesis class
or a book class with \usepackage{thesis}) or something, but I'm no
LaTeX guru.
If you do this, it would be neat if you could document it (should be easy,
since the format won't be too much different from book format). In the
documentation, you ought to tell people that it shouldn't be too hard to
change the rice thesis to some other kind of thesis, with a bit of hacking
(especially if they've got a school class file already).
(btw, please don't let all of our "suggestions" discourage you. Contributions
are always welcomed!)
-Amir Karger
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