Hi Gunter,
Thanks for the information about the configuration file. Its much more
useful because now I don't have to worry about version conflicts.. Really
appreciate it.
Thanks,
John
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Guenter Milde <mi...@users.berlios.de>wrote:
> On 2010-02-05, John Adams wrote:
> > --001485f453f09f0cd7047edc5164
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
> > Great! Thank You very much. There was a very simple line in that class
> file:
>
> > *copyrightwanted = @true*
>
> > I changed it to false and got what I needed.
>
> It is generally a bad idea to change anything in a LaTeX document class
> file. Many class files have even a license that forbids this. The reason
> is that the author(s) want to make sure the class works as documented.
>
> The common method is to save a copy under a different name and configure
> it.
>
> If you are speaking about the \documentclass{siggraph},
> The siggraph Document Class Users’ Guide
> (found at www.cs.brown.edu/system/software/latex/doc/siggraph.pdf)
> describes an alternative way:
>
> 4.4 Configuration file
>
> Individual users or sites may wish to modify the behavior of this class
> (for instance, to use a particular set of fonts.) Rather than having
> people hack the .cls file, which can lead to various incompatible
> versions at different sites, the class provides for a configuration
> file. After the class has finished loading, it will check to see if a
> siggraph.cfg file exists in the TEX search path. If so, it will be input.
> Any user---or site---specific modifications should be placed
> in this file. (See the copyright notice in the siggraph.dtx source file
> for information on distribution of configuration files.)
>
>
> Günter
>
>
