RE: customising latex classes

2000-08-16 Thread Juergen Vigna
> 2. I copied g-brief.cls and g-brief.sty from g-brief into og and > renamed then nzletter.cls and nzletter.sty If you're using another class-file as base then you should not copy the whole file but only use it as base for your class and the modify the stuff you need with \renewcommand. Hav

Re: customising latex classes

2000-08-16 Thread Herbert Voss
John O'Gorman wrote: > The hard part is now understanding the (entirely uncommented) > g-brief-en.cls file. I have the books (by Lamport, Goossens, et alii) > but the .cls file uses things like picture(0,0) in undocumented ways. > This seems to produce a picture environment of zero dimensions! w

customising latex classes

2000-08-15 Thread John O'Gorman
For some time I have been unhappy with the letter classes available from LyX. The standard letter conforms to US conventions and is not the way we do it in New Zealand. The letter(german) would not work for me. But g-brief-en worked and was the closest to what we want in NZ. So I ventured to tr