On Fri, 09 Jul 1999 01:15:58 +0100, Arnd Hanses wrote:
>On Fri, 18 Jun 1999 11:25:06 +0100, Arnd Hanses wrote:
>
>Hi,
>>
>>here follows as an infozipped attachment beta support for
>>
>> alphanum.sty
>>
>>of ctan's
>>
>> supported/jura.
>>
>>It's a slight modification of KOMA-script to provide a more traditional
>>european layout, especially useful for papers in humanities, law and
>>social sciences.
>>
>>Bibligraphy support for humanities does not yet work as expected and
>>footnotes are somewhat limited.
>>
>>You need a working KOMA installation.
>>
>>Please stress test it and report all bugs. Interesting is especially
>>TOC (create a header on current level), SUB (create a header one level
>>down compared to previous), UPxx (create a header one or xx levels up
>>compared to previous).
>>
>>I would like support in LyX' table of content, so that some kind of
>>navigation through large texts became possible:
>>These classes are eventually meant for very large texts ...
>
>
>Now attached as a tarball beta2.
>
>Changes:
>
>- minor bug fixing (probably many amazing new bugs)
>
>- now simulating entries in LyX' table of contents. Counting and
>leveling in LyX are intentionally nonsense, but at least it shows and
>helps to navigate when editing large texts. Preview dvi to see all the
>beauty...
>
> Please let me know, if you like the old version more...
>
>- renamed CTAN's 'alphanum.sty' to 'alfa.sty'. No functional changes.
>But as it is very hard to find (it's hidden in a larger docstrip
>archive) and not part of any distribution that I know, we need to
>supply it with LyX. The author does not allow any copying, unless the
>name has been changed. Please report any objections to distributing
>this renamed archive to me. We don't want to violate his copyright.
>
>- new example file alfa.lyx unfolding all the marvels of documentation
>writing
>
>Just a question here:
>
>Can I avoid ERT:
>
> /pagenumbering{none} ...
> /pagenumbering{roman} ...
> /pagenumbering{arabic} ...
> etc.
>
>in LyX somehow (without changing basic LaTeX classes), or is it needed?
>
>Another small suggestion:
>
>While trying to figure this out, I got the impression that manuals are
>becoming really big now and you are never sure, where to find what. So,
>a master document containing a table of contents for all manuals and a
>searchable index wouldn't be bad.
>The Introduction to LyX could be used for this. This would not be too
>hard, if future doc revisions took care to identify keywords and index
>entries.
>
>Also, some kind of full text search of the doc's returning all hits as
>well as the section, where to find it, may be something to think about
>for next major version, as doc's tend to increase.
>
>
>Cheers,
>
> Arnd
>
>
>PS:
>
>NOTE: I tried to convert all CR/LF to LF. But there may still remain
>problems with this awful DOS text mode.
>
>Standard Disclaimer (I'm liable for less than nothing..;):
>------------------------------------------------------
>
>The numeric sectioning, I think, once was introduced in Wittgenstein's
>Tractatus Logico
>Philosophicus, to break with traditional values (of typesetting) in the
>fields of
>philosophical logics. It was meant to be moderately offensive and not
>meant to please the reader or make reading easier. Most academic
>writing conventions
>nevertheless nowadays do not accept this, but cling to traditional
>typesetting. I would
>strongly recommend that LyX not excludeed LaTeX's possibilities of
>doing excellent
>typesetting in the tradionally accepted style.
>
>Largely seems to work with A4 documents, needs more testing. Preview of
>this style in LyX
>is still ugly (no WYSIWYM), but I think a better integration of this
>Layout should be
>easy. Others interested in this, too?
>
>But be warned:
> Broken Layouts make LyX crash und may cause severe problems of
>data loss and data
>corruption (I personally would whish it had better internal handling of
>those problems).
>It works for me (even if it looks still ugly in LyX) and produces
>beautiful DVI files.
>But it may not work for your configuration.
>
>This means:
> Testing may destroy data on your harddisk! This is not a public
>release! It is
>provided for the private use and testing by LyX developers only.
>
>I will not release it to the public before developers of LyX say that
>problems are
>tolerable and that it adapts to WYSIWYM philosophy. It's based on
>'alphanumeric.sty' in
>
> CTAN/macro/Latex2e/contrib/supported/jura/
>
>directory, which itself is not included in the attachment because it
>must only be
>distributed by official CTAN servers. This directory contains also a
>'jura' class which
>has a very interesting bibliographical layout style.
>
>
>
>
>
alfa-classes.tar.gz
