Guenter Milde schrieb:
> On 2009-04-28, Georg Brandl wrote:
>> Guenter Milde schrieb:
>>> On 2009-04-17, Fred Drake wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 4:12 AM, Guenter Milde wrote:
>>>>> Also, it loads the 'report' standard LaTeX documentclass with the
>>>>> "openright" option hard-coded
> ...
>>>> If anyone knows how to make it pass those settings along only if it
>>>> gets them, that would be great.
> 
>>> I could find out and maybe even fix the manual.cls latex documentclass.
>>> However, I would rather find out who is in charge of this file.
> 
>> It's in charge of whoever writes patches :)
> 
> * Where to send patches?

Here, or to me directly.

> * Is manual.cls a part of Sphinx or or Python?
> 
>   (I find it in both, 
>   
>     /usr/lib/python2.5/doc/texinputs/manual.cls
>     /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/sphinx/texinputs/manual.cls
> 
>   )

The original was used in 2.5's LaTeX-source documentation, and I adapted it
(quite a lot over time) for Sphinx.  I guess that the first you find there
is the original 2.5 doc one (which Debian ships).

> * Who could decide to change the name to be more specific
>   (python-manual.cls, say).

I'd say changing it to "sphinx-manual.cls" is not a problem.

>>> Alternatively, there should be an option to select a documentclass for
>>> LaTeX output.
> 
>> I agree.
> 
> Fine. So I am looking forward to see a "documentclass" config setting
> similar to what we have in Docutils' rst2latex:
> 
> --documentclass=DOCUMENTCLASS
>                         Specify documentclass.  Default is "article".

It should be latex_elements['docclass'].

> This could be supplemented with a "stylesheet" setting:
> 
> --stylesheet=<file[,file2, ...]> Specify comma separated list of 
>                       LaTeX packages/stylesheets.  
>                       A style is referenced with \usepackage if 
>                       extension is ".sty" or omitted and with \input else.

However, this is already subsumed by latex_elements['preamble'].

Georg

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