Background

The Dutch LATEX styles are an attempt to provide LATEX users with facilities of the standard distribution styles `article' and `report', but coupled to typography that is geared towards Dutch usage. In order to ensure interchangeability, the new styles implemented the commands of the distribution styles. In principle, then, no manual for these styles would be needed. There are a few points, however, that can't go without comment. Table 1 lists all files connected with the Dutch styles. These files can be found on the tex-nl fileserver on the hearn node of Bitnet/Earn. Not all of them are necessary, the ones with extension .tex contain just blah. Remark: there exists a Dutch version of `letter', which is so specifically Dutch that I decided not to include it in this list.

Table: List of files
artikel1.sty article compatible, design 1, straightforward
artikel2.sty article compatible, design 2, rather different
artikel3.sty article compatible, design 3, parskip instead of indent
rapport1.sty report compatible, design 1
rapport3.sty report compatible, design 3
book.sty book compatible, design 1, under development
ntg10.sty 10 point option for all styles
ntg11.sty 11 point option for all styles
ntg12.sty 12 point option for all styles
voorwerk.sty Dutch version of titlepage, needed for `rapportx'
a4.sty page size for European norm A4 paper.
ntgstyle.tex this story
artdoc.tex the genesis of the `artikel' styles, in Dutch
rapdoc.tex the genesis of the `rapport' styles, also in Dutch.