essay collection

[gabal...@gmail.com]

Hey!

I have to compose a collection of short (5-10 pages) essays with denotation of thier author, title and bibliography. Could You recommend a package or document class for this task?
Tanks!

galla

[Lee Rudolph]

The memoir class seems like a good choice to me,
treating each essay as a chapter. For inividual
bibliographies (at the end of each essay) you can
use chapterbib.sty.

A more detailed description of what you want might
yield more detailed descriptions of what various
people recommend.

Lee Rudolph

[Dr Engelbert Buxbaum]

In article <715cfda0-5adb-434b...@googlegroups.com>,
gabal...@gmail.com says...

have a look at the Springer svmult package.

[Robin Fairbairns]

Dr Engelbert Buxbaum <engelber...@hotmail.com> writes:

> gabal...@gmail.com says...

>
>> I have to compose a collection of short (5-10 pages) essays with
>> denotation of thier author, title and bibliography. Could You
>> recommend a package or document class for this task?
>

> have a look at the Springer svmult package.

sigh. that looks to me like a chunk of a latex 2.09 document style.
(personally, i only use things "declared obsolete" if there really are
no alternatives...)

looking at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/bytopic.html
(and having searched for "combine"), i find some which don't help you,
and combine and standalone.

in addition (from incomplete project work of my own) i have docmute,
newclude and includex (the last, though deprecated by its author, is my
favourite -- note that the author hasn't declared it obsolete, but i
used it before his "replacement" package appeared after tug '95).

however, none of these (afaik) will solve the bibliography problem "on
their own". in addition to the suggestion you've already had, you might
find that biblatex helps with the biblio problem. i've not used
biblatex yet, but istr from its first announcement that it addresses
this requirement too.
--
Robin Fairbairns, Cambridge
sorry about all this posting. i'll go back to sleep in a bit.

[Axel Berger]

Robin Fairbairns wrote:
> sigh. that looks to me like a chunk of a latex 2.09 document style.

Then you've looked at an older version. See
<ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/svmultt1.zip>
<ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/svmultt1/>

Axel

[Robin Fairbairns]

Axel Berger <Axel....@Gmx.De> writes:

> Robin Fairbairns wrote:
>> sigh. that looks to me like a chunk of a latex 2.09 document style.
>
> Then you've looked at an older version.

i did say i had found it on the ctan obsolete/ tree

> See
> <ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/svmultt1.zip>
> <ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/svmultt1/>

yes, i admit that i tend not to search every publisher's site. but
then, who in their right mind does?

frankly, if the publisher can't be bothered to put it on ctan, i can't
be bothered to search it out when recommending packages.

i spend a lot of time in making ctan a good home for tex-related
software, but the publishers seem to prefer balkanised solutions to
package distribution.

roll on the day when open publishing is the norm, i say -- but let's
hope it happens before we remnants of the ctan team have expired, eh?

[Axel Berger]

Robin Fairbairns wrote:
> yes, i admit that i tend not to search every publisher's site. but
> then, who in their right mind does?

To be fair, while some of us might find it useful for general purposes,
Springer only made that package for authors and editors publishing with
them. For those the Springer site is the first and most logical place to
look. And to be honest, whenever people like Engelbert suggest
proprietary solutions like Springer, CTAN is not the first place I think
of where to look.

Axel

[Dr Engelbert Buxbaum]

In article <4FCD43E5...@Gmx.De>, Axel....@Gmx.De says...

Well, a LaTeX .cls file is not really proprietary software in my book.
But I completely agree with Robin that putting such files into the CTAN
tree would be easier for everybody. And who knows, may be there would
even be some useful development by the user community.

Sometimes I do get the impression that TeX-support by major publishing
houses is half-hearted at best. When I published my first book with
Springer, the editor told me that he had changed the placing of some
figures so as to minimize the number of pages that required 4-colour
printing. And could I please re-do the index? When I told him to just
re-run LaTeX and makeindex, he was very astonished. Too many M$-Würg
files out there, I guess.