We've had a lot of discussion recently about layouts, page design, fine tuning appearances, bibliographies, and so on. This makes me ask: how many of you with needs beyond the standard own and have read Mittlebach & Goossen's "The LaTeX Companion, 2nd edition?" How many have searched CTAN for a suitable package?
TLC2, for example, devotes Chapter 3 to "Basic Formatting Tools", including phrases and paragraphs; footnotes, endnotes, and marginals; list structures; and lines and columns. Chapter 4 is "The Layout of the Page," Chapter 12 is "Managing Citations," Chapter 13 is "Bibliography Generation," and Appendix A is "A LaTeX Overview for Preamble, Package, and Class Writers." That's a lot of information for those who want to roll their own. The Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN; http://www.ctan.org/) is another resource that can save us from re-inventing the wheel. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | The Environmental Permitting Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.(TM) | Accelerator <http://www.appl-ecosys.com> Voice: 503-667-4517 Fax: 503-667-8863
