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release 7.8 suggestions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gilbert Leung)
Mon Oct 17 16:44:59 1994
To: release-team@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 1994 16:44:06 -0400
From: Gilbert Leung <gleung@MIT.EDU>
Hi,
1) I think the latest tcsh is actually 6.05
2) I would like to have LaTeX 2e, which handles macro packages much more
nicely. For example, in LaTeX 209 (the one we are using now),
if you want to write an article with certain packages, you do
\documentstyle[package1,package2...]{article}. But this is not very
correct because article is a class and sometimes you need to pass
"arguments" to the class/packages that you are using.
In LaTeX 2e, (e for enhanced, I guess) this is handled much more cleanly:
\documentclass[twocolumn,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage[german,french]{babel}
(example pulled out straight from _The LATEX Companion_)
As you can see, you can specify options to both the class and the packages
that you are using. This also means that you could easily ftp any existing
macro packages out then on the net and use them.
I ran into this problem myself when I wanted to typeset a twocolumn
paper with certain IEEE standards (package with arguments) and failed
miserably. I think I wound up doing much more work for it.
Thanks,
Gilbert
