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- From: schiller@prl.philips.nl (schiller c)
- Subject: Two small conceptual mistakes in latex.tex with proposed improvement
- Message-ID: <1992Aug22.162013.1073@prl.philips.nl>
- Originator: schiller@prles11
- Sender: news@prl.philips.nl (USENET News System)
- Organization: Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
- Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 16:20:13 GMT
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- Recently I became annoyed by the large space that
- latex puts between the number of a section and the section title (1em).
- Trying to reduce it, I found out that the space is defined as
- a fixed length, not in the .sty file, but in latex.tex itself, more
- precisely in the definition of \@sect.
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- In order to change it, one has to recopy the hole definition into
- a macro file, change the value (e.g. from 1em to 0.3em), and put the whole
- between \makeatletter and \makeatother. Rather tedious.
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- Could the length 1em appearing in \@sect not be given a name,
- such as \@svsecdist, so that the length can be defined in the .sty file ?
- In principle, the style file decides all dimensions, but this one
- is an exeption. Could this be mended in the next latex version ?
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- I am shure many people in Europe and in other continents would appreciate
- this flexibility which gives the freedom to avoid the streched-out
- titles of the original latex, which does not follow the taste
- of people over here.
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- Looking through latex.tex, one finds only one more fixed length
- appearing after an \hskip,
- in the definition of \and. The same should apply here, I guess.
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- Anybody has the address of Rainer Maria Schoepf, in order
- to tell him about this proposal ?
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- Happy tex'ing
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- Christoph Schiller
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- schiller@prl.philips.nl
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