On May 1, 2009, at 1:42 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
I'm not quite sure I understand what you mean: If I don't use any
of the
styles of a document class, why use the class in the first place?
Or am I
missing something?
When you select a document class it provides all the typographic
styles
you need ... unless there's something specific and non-standard. The
layout
of an article is different from that of a report, and both are
different
from that of a book.
Rich
When Rich wrote
DO NOT use the facilities of your document class for your
frontmatter -- instead use custom styles and ERT (inserted LaTeX
code) to
fine-tune your front matter exactly how you want it.
he was speaking of the front matter only -- the title page and so on.
The main body of the work uses the standard features and styles of the
given document class.
Bruce
