Re: LaTeX emulation

["Adam Lindsay" <atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk>]

Brooks Moses said this at Wed, 18 May 2005 09:23:01 -0700:

>>:-)
>>
>>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?
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