On Feb 14, 2012, at 3:27 AM, Richard Heck wrote: > On 02/14/2012 07:01 AM, Eric Weir wrote: > >> On Feb 13, 2012, at 6:34 PM, Steve Litt wrote: >> >>> In your book's main matter, use styles and nothing but styles. Never >>> apply an appearance directly, but instead apply appearances through >>> styles that match the usage in the document (Chapter, section, >>> subsection, Quote, tip, warning, etc). BUT, in the front matter, feel >>> free to apply appearances directly, and DO NOT use the document class's >>> facilities for title, author, etc, and just write them with proper >>> appearances and spacing. >> >> Am I correct in understand you that I can just skip using the title and >> author environments and write and format the as if body text? Recently I >> tried formatting a title using the section environment and it would not >> compile to pdf without the title and author data. > > You just put them in as author and title, and fix the typography later. One > easy way to do it is just to copy the code that sets the title from the > document class, in this case scrartcl.cls, and modify it as you see fit. > Depending upon whether you have a title page or not, this is either the > \maketitle command or else the \@maketitle command.
I don't understand, Richard. This sounds like the normal procedure and what I've been doing and not liking the result. I took Steve to be suggesting going around that. Would not be surprised if I didn't understand. I've also committed to koma-script. I would like to modify the \@maketitle command. I've located it in scrartcl.cls. Will be studying it. Will undoubtedly be checking in here later about the changes I've made, where to put them, and how to use them. Thanks, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA [email protected] "What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit." - Chief Seattle
