FWIW, specifications of standard LaTeX styles can be found here<http://www.tug.org/texlive/devsrc/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/base/classes.pdf>. It's a closely written 66 page document.
-Alasdair On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 8:17 PM, Martin Schröder <mar...@oneiros.de> wrote: > 2011/3/14 Aditya Mahajan <adit...@umich.edu>: > > The hard part is figuring out the values (font size, spaces after > sections, > > etc) from the LaTeX code. It is difficult to look at > > http://mirror.hmc.edu/ctan/macros/latex/contrib/IEEEtran/IEEEtran.clsand > > figure out what is the title size for a 10pt document, or how much space > > should come between the author block and the start of the two column > text, > > etc. > > Erm - is that really needed? Today a typical journal's workflow should > accept articles in LaTeX _markup_, convert that to XML and feed it to an > XML formatter (which may well use TeX) eventually. I see ConTeXt's role > there as the XML formatter. Or it could digest LaTeX markup - but then > it would need more than just the layout. > > Best > Martin > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to > the Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > -- Blog: http://amca01.wordpress.com Web: http://bit.ly/Alasdair Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/alasdair.mcandrew
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