Enrico Forestieri wrote: > Well, either we remove the MarkBoth environment or actually add code > to the preamble in order to avoid a latex failure when someone uses > MarkBoth in the document without disabling babel. Also take into account > the fact that one may have old files using the IEEEtran class with > MarkBoth, and it is a real nuisance having to disable babel. > > I don't think removing MarkBoth is feasible without breaking those old > documents (without a format change?), so maybe your solution could be > complemented with mine but modified as you suggest, i.e., adding the > preamble stuff to the MarkBoth definition in the layout file.
I agree with all of this. > In this way, using \markboth in the preamble is encouraged, but MarkBoth > in the document is still possible. Yes. Xo could you prepare a patch for the layout file? While you are at it, you could add some OptArgs where needed. Jürgen
