>>>>> "Allan" == Allan Rae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Allan> 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
Allan> classes. Others may use different commands or even
Allan> environments. The use of \and is therefore only appropriate
Allan> for a few classes. You won't find author in the sources
Allan> because it is just another 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...
Allan> This seems like a bandaid but I'll think about it. [...]
In the case of author, it has the nice property that you just put
multiple author entries to have several authors. This seems very
intuitive to me. I do not know whether this would be useful for
anything else but author. Adding the layout tag is trivial, and
implementing it should be firly easy for someone who knows his way in
the LaTeX writing routines.
Allan> We could just add an Insert->Special Char->\and{} which is only
Allan> active in an Author paragraph.
This seems more kludgy to me...
JMarc
