On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> >>>>> "Allan" == Allan Rae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> Allan> \author{} is supported by some but not all LaTeX classes.
> Allan> Others may use different commands or even environments. The
> Allan> use of \and is therefore only appropriate for a few classes.
> Allan> You won't find author in the sources because it is just another
> Allan> style in the layout files.
>
> If we want to support this painlessly, we could have a new layout tag
> MergeSuccessive "\and{} "
> which says that when several successive layouts of the same style are
> encountered, they should be put in an unique \author call. Of course
> the name sucks, and we'd have to find something else.
>
> This seems pretty straightforward to implement, as long as we know
> our way into TeXOnePar (Allan?). Of course, this is not a silver
> bullet, but it could help in many cases...
This seems like a bandaid but I'll think about it.
[...]
> Supporting all these weird classes is tougher.
Yes, so I'll look through some of my documents and see if I can come up
with something more general. Do you want this in 1.0 JMarc?
We could just add an Insert->Special Char->\and{} which is only active in
an Author paragraph.
Allan. (ARRae)
