[lug] How reasonable to reverse latex stylesheets?

[J. Wayde Allen]

On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, D. Stimits wrote:

> Basically, if I want to learn article.cls, is there an awk or grep type
> line I can use to speed up my understanding without outside
> documentation? Article is just one class of course, there are lots of
> them without much public documentation, although article seems common.

I've never dug too deeply into the structure of the style and class files
of LaTeX.  I have looked at them, and they don't seem too terribly
scary.  Probably no more scary than seeing a Perl program for the first
time, and I'd guess not as complex as a sendmail config file.  I'm pretty
certain that these are written in pure TeX though.  So ... a bit of
reading of the online TeX documents would probably be in order.

> PS: I just found something interesting. Star Office (I think 5.1, an
> older version) was better able to import a word document than a current
> version of WordPerfect running on windows. I wish I could download the
> new version, but I'd have to leave the machine running overnight for
> several days. In any case, a Linux app beat out the windows app for
> importing word (wordperfect lost formatting that was preserved under
> Linux and Star Office).

Cool!

- Wayde
  (wallen at lug.boulder.co.us)

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