On Fri, 1 May 2009, Bruce Pourciau wrote:
When you select a document class it provides all the typographic styles
you need ... unless there's something specific and non-standard. The layout
of an article is different from that of a report, and both are different
from that of a book.
Rich
When Rich wrote
DO NOT use the facilities of your document class for your
frontmatter -- instead use custom styles and ERT (inserted LaTeX code) to
fine-tune your front matter exactly how you want it.
he was speaking of the front matter only -- the title page and so on. The
main body of the work uses the standard features and styles of the given
document class.
Bruce,
I will accept authorship of the first quote because I wrote it. However, I
did not write the second quote. Don't know who did. When I wrote my book for
Springer-Verlag I used their svmono class for the whole thing. I did need to
start the frontmatter at page 4 so they could insert the usual short title
and other publishing stuff.
Rich
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