" 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
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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
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>
>
> > -----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
>
>