[texhax] my own class/package

[Robin]

Many thanks for the explanations

I am working in an information service company, and we are using 3B2 which
based on SGML/XML, but we want to develop another typesetting system, the
main ideas are:

1. still based on SGML/XML
2. we have various journal which have various article type, such as book
review, normal article and editorial paper etc, so I think I should write
classes for all different article types (also different journals)

Thanks again
Robin

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fehd, Ronald J. (CDC/CCHIS/NCPHI)" <rjf2 at CDC.GOV>
To: <texhax at tug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 10:43 PM
Subject: Re: [texhax] my own class/package


> > From: "Robin" <robinwei at charlesworth.com.cn>
>
> > Any idea on how to write my own class/package, I searched
> > online, only seldom documents.
>
> Writing a class or package is not nearly the rocket science
> I thought it would be.
>
> Class  : What is your base class?
> Package: what functionality do you want to add to whatever class you are
> using in your writing?
>
> Find something similar, copy it
> make a test.tex get it and keep it running
> while you go down your checklist of what you want different.
>
> I have written only one class for my conference papers:
>
> http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/conferences/sugconf
> /
>
> It is not perfect but it gets the job done.
>
> Ron Fehd  the {SAS} macro maven  CDC Atlanta GA USA RJF2 at cdc dot gov
>
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