Brooks Moses said this at Wed, 18 May 2005 09:23:01 -0700:
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There must be at least some decent LaTeX layouts out there, surely there is no need to emulate the default classes?
In my opinion, the primary utility of this would be an ability to emulate the large quantity of classes that are based on the default classes, but with the margins and stuff adjusted to fit a given journal style (or such). One hopes that this could be done automatically, too, by feeding the appropriate arbitrary style file into ConTeXt, but that may be a bit much to ask at least at first.
Okay, I'd agree there's a need for some no-brains default styles. I'd also agree with Taco's point that LaTeX's defaults are pretty ugly. On the other hand, they're *familiar* and widespread. To many with an engineering viewpoint, that can be more important than "attractive". I suspect that going through and emulating individual journal styles is going to be a futile exercise, but we can work through some specific requests of classes with a limited number of options. I suspect that with the "emulation mode" taken care of, some of us will want to give a "ConTeXt remix" slant on it, to show how things can be done better. So: any requests? -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dept. atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk Lancaster University, InfoLab21 +44(0)1524/510.514 Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/510.492 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-