Re: sample styles

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

David Arnold wrote:

> ... 

Well, setting up a few styles is not that for me to do. The real hard
ones are those where the input is fuzzy, needs to be manipulated and
where tricky interactive features are needed. I don't expect those here
-)

> However, I can remember learning a ton of stuff by trying out the
> presentation styles, of which I think there were about four different ones

6 currently and some more when I have used them myself

> when I was looking at them. so, I am thinking, why not put out styles for
> book, report, article, letter, slides, but have several examples of each.

something s-boo-01 and so on, probably mapped onto more verbose names
using the file mapping mechanism

> For example, you might have book-1, book-2, book-3, etc., where in one you
> have underlined running heads, in another you don't, etc. That way, people
> can go into the preamble and learn a little about setting up their own
> layouts, much as I tried to do with the presentation styles.
> 
> More work, but just a thought. I really learned a lot from those
> presentation styles, and in fact, will be revisiting those styles again
> toward the end of my sabbatical, just before returning to work. They were
> so helpful.

The idea behind the styles is than one loads them and in the document if
needed overloads settings. So, I advice never to copy such a style
s-pre-01 to for instance s-pre-93 I can reserve the prefix u- for user
files if needed. 

So, concerning the presentation styles, when you want different colors,
just load the style and redefine the colors
(\definecolor[BackGroundColor][...] and so)

Hans

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