Re: Still the old layout problem

[Jens-Uwe Morawski <morawski@gmx.net>]

On Sun, 04 Aug 2002 23:30:02 +0200
Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:

> At 09:23 PM 8/4/2002 +0200, you wrote:
> >On Sun, 4 Aug 2002 13:07:57 +0200
> >Giuseppe Bilotta <gip.bilotta@iol.it> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > I understand that this layout has to be kept the default for
> > > backwards compatibility reasons,
> >Is it really impossible to fix that bug completely?
> 
> it's not a bug, i.e. bug<>anything_that_gip_dislikes
> 
> btw, a similar question could arise for head styles being normal or bold
> 
> The best thing to do is to define a series of alternative defaults, like:
> 
> symmetrical layout
> bold headers
> packed itemized lists
>
> Now, if some users can compose a 'list of alternatives', i can provide a 
> module that provides them,

i don't know what you mean with module, but if i understand your
statements about layouts in the past, then you prefer that each
document should be layouted from scratch. I agree with that opinion.
Therefore, a module, as i understand this term, is not the apropriate
solution. May be providing some environments (env-XXXX.tex) for
products and projects would be better.

 But there is one thing that can go in a module. One may call
 it a layout engine. In some basic books about typography there
 one can find often 2 or 3 methods of recommended page layout.
 One of these methods is the 'division' of the page by a fixed
 number in rows and columns. There are more methods, of course.

 May be supporting those methods can help to ease page layout
 more than fixed default settings, i.e.
 \setuplayout[method=division,dividedby=11]

Best,
  Jens