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From: chrba@ida.liu.se (Christer Backstrom)
Subject: Re: ecai 96 style files
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rmarko@atena.fer.uni-lj.si () writes:

>  I was told that many others publishers also use old LaTeX 2.09
>format (e.g. Kluwers), as LaTeX 2e is stil relatively new.

This seems to be a common problem. LaTeX2e is claimed to be the standard
nowadays. At our department, for instance, everything is now set up for
LaTeX2e. You can still run LaTeX 2.09, but most suport around LaTeX,
like Xfig, AucTeX etc. is now adopted to LaTeX2e, which causes a lot
of problems when running LaTeX 2.09. Despite this, it seems that few, 
if any, publishers have switcehd to LaTeX2e. Hence, one still has to develop 
most documents in LaTeX 2.09., which causes a lot of trouble. Besides,
the compatibility mode of LaTeX2e does not work very well; it does not
swallow all old-style documents and, in particular, it allows many LaTeX2e
constructs, so you cannot be sure a document is LaTeX 2.09 if it goes through
the compatibility mode. I think someone should try convincing the publishers
to swith to the new standard.

Regarding the ECAI'96 style file, I have realized they have still not
fixed the problem that lists in theorem environments are negatively
indented. I pointed this out for last time and even proposed a fix to it, but
it seems nothing has happened. If you experience this problem, you can
define a special list environment for use within theorem-style environments
as follows:

\newcounter{theoremlistno}
\newenvironment{theoremlist}{%
\begin{list}{\arabic{theoremlistno}.}{\usecounter{theoremlistno}
  \setlength{\leftmargin}{10pt}
  \setlength{\labelsep}{6pt}
  \setlength{\labelwidth}{6pt}
  \sl}}%
{\end{list}}


If you want an itemize list, just change the "\arabic ..." to "\bullet"
(I think, that is correct, but haven't tested it).

/Christer

