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" a title, a footnote, or a quotation block is defined separately" Yes, but at any point when creating an instance of a title, footnote or quotation block you can define arbitrary computations (including redefining the current style). Sane people don't, of course, but you can. cheers stuart -- ...let us be heard from red core to black sky On Fri, 21 Jul 2023 at 09:19, McDonald, Stephen <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I'm not sure I agree with that description of LaTeX. LaTeX is more > concerned with formatting than style. LaTeX says, "this is the title", > "this is a footnote", "this is a quotation block", "this is a chapter", > "this is a sidebar note". The actual style that is used for a title, a > footnote, or a quotation block is defined separately, and layout on a page > is done in end-processing. I don't see any way you could separate those > format blocks from the text to be blocked out. Am I misunderstanding you? > > Steve McDonald > [log in to unmask] > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Code for Libraries <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Stuart > A. > > Yeates > > Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2023 4:49 PM > > To: [log in to unmask] > > Subject: [External] Re: [CODE4LIB] What manner of creature is LaTeX? > > > > LaTeX is a little like PostScript and Excel with autorun scripts: > formats conceived > > and developed prior to the software development insight that separation > of > > content and code need to be separate. > > > > Nowadays it is accepted that content should be split into text and > style, but > > way back when, there wasn't even a consensus for the split between > content > > and code. > > > > cheers > > stuart > >