RE: [SLE] Old style page numbers in LaTeX

Message-ID: <01C04E5E.CD5843A0.kester.clegg@comreco-rail.co.uk> From: Kester Clegg Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 17:17:43 -0000 Subject: RE: [SLE] Old style page numbers in LaTeX There is a compromise - use the plain package. It allows you to use plain tex commands within your latex document and so in theory you'd get both the power of the predefined macros and the fine tuning you're after. But I don't see what's so wrong in defining your own page style, beyond the usual caveat typesetters give 'Fools rush in, changing fonts, altering margins, setting headers where none should be set' and so on and so forth! Have fun, k. On Monday, November 13, 2000 7:08 PM, Corvin Russell [SMTP:corvinr@sympatico.ca] wrote:

Hi Kester,

I think you're right, LaTeX is a bit too rigid for me. If its rigidity conformed in every case to the best typographical style -- it's the rare case in setting plain text where you need the "normal" titling arabic numbers and not the other way around -- it'd be fine. But it doesn't and using packages seems fraught with pitfalls. As I mentioned, I find the bloated-bold title style a bit much. It so happens that I found one example of such behaviour not produced by LaTeX, that being an art book from the V & A. Nonetheless, I prefer my own titling style, and as I was trying to implement it with the 'letterspace' package, I discovered a bug in that package. Ack! There is also the package 'soul', but I haven't figured out how to add new fonts to it... I suppose I had better learn TeX. The TeXbook is on its way.

So... I shall also have to wade back into usenet? which I have scrupulously avoided for 7 years.

Anyhow, thanks again.

Corvin

-- Corvin Russell