Looking at book.cls, I find this:
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\thispagestyle{plain}%
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]@schapter}
\secdef is basically checking for a star (it's defined in latex.ltx in
terms of [EMAIL PROTECTED]), and it invokes [EMAIL PROTECTED] if there isn't
one and
[EMAIL PROTECTED] if there is (in which case it also seems to play with the
arguments, for reasons I don't understand). I'd try mimicking this
technique.
Richard
Paul Tremblay wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 21:02:15 -0500
> Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>> I'm not texpert, but I'd have thought the solution had to involve the
>> if-next-char-is-star trick that seems to be used in a lot of the
>> classes to allow a single definition to handle both the starred and
>> non-starred cases. Maybe Helge would know. Helge seems to be a real
>> wiz with these things.
>>
>>
>
> Okay, that looks very useful. I've never used an if statements in Latex,
> but I think
> that is probably what I need. I'll wait to see if Helge has time to
> respond and give
> me some tips.
>
> Thanks
>
> Paul
>
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