On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 13:24 +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: > Martin Vermeer wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 06:04:35PM +0200, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > > > >> This is what my patch does. Also I think that *all* charstyles should > >> travel > >> with the document (because people might add their own charstyles to some > >> document classes). So there will be no more "Undefined" charstyles. > >> > > > > Be careful. I don't think it is wise to store everything and the kitchen > > sink in the document. And users shouldn't be able to modify a document > > class / layout... that stuff belongs more properly in template files. > > > The user should at least be able to modify his/her own styles. > > What is the problem if the user changes a style that came > with the document class? I.e. "in this particular report I want > "emph" to be red text instead of the usual italic."
Yes, that's fine, as long as it doesn't get written back to the layout file. That's contrary to LaTeX good behaviour. > Or how about "centered subsection headings in this article", > no reason not to allow changing the paragraph styles either. > (Nobody is implementing that, just a design consideration.) > > I think user ability to override arbitrary parts of the document > layout is good, as long as such changes is stored in the document. > That way, such documents may be freely exchanged. Overriding is fine! > Helge Hafting - Martin
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