the front page should emphasize the PMS, not any one person that was involved ... displaying names on the front page generally conveys ownership the PMS should be like every other Gentoo doc out there ... emphasis is on the content, not the people behind it authors/contributers/etc... should all be listed in the same place: page ~8 for acknowledgments
Then find us a LaTeX document class that does that.
(In reply to comment #0) > the front page should emphasize the PMS, not any one person that was involved > ... displaying names on the front page generally conveys ownership > > the PMS should be like every other Gentoo doc out there ... emphasis is on the > content, not the people behind it Well, I do not disagree with you in general, but have a look at _printable_ gentoo documents, e.g.: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/index.xml?style=printable They show (as any print that respects international printing conventions) the authors right after the title. Besides, the PMS authors didn't choose to put their names in this position. It's rather that LaTeX does it automatically. If we were to change that, we'd need to either use a (non-standard) CTAN documentclass that moves the authors around (and I don't know any that does this) or maintain our own documentclass and ship it with PMS's source. I for one wouldn't like to chose either of these options. However, I'm not sure I have considered all of them.
why dont you pick a document that is representable: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/hardened/pic-fix-guide.xml?style=printable authors/contributors are all listed together
Find us an appropriate documentclass that doesn't involve changing anything else and we'll use it. Or better yet, focus on bugs that aren't arbitrary and pointless.
i'm replying to Danny, not you ... nowhere did i say "focus on this"
Please reopen if you have a sane patch.
closing bugs doesnt make the problem magically disappear
There isn't a problem. If you come up with a nicer documentclass for latex, we'll use it, but the way it's formatted now is fine.
if you dont like seeing this bug in your list, then fix it. otherwise, leave it alone.
If you want to see this changed, come up with a concrete suggestion for what would be better than the current state, including a latex documentclass to do it. Until then it's fine as it is.
Please leave this bug closed. We aren't going to keep our own document class around just for this one really minor "problem". If someone can find something that does it, then please reopen it, but until then, there is nothing we can do about it.
bugzilla is track open issues ... the issue isnt closed, so the bug isnt closed
Mike, and none of us are going to fix it nor do we know of a latex stylesheet that can do it. As such...WONTFIX (unless you can provide a fix)
(In reply to comment #13) > Mike, and none of us are going to fix it nor do we know of a latex stylesheet > that can do it. > > As such...WONTFIX (unless you can provide a fix) > setting \author{} and pdfauthor does this. No magic stylesheet needed for that. However PMS and its copyright might better be contributed to the Gentoo Foundation, while still acknowledging the original authors - but thats a different issue. Anyway stating "There is no way to get the title changed in latex" is just hilarious.
No-one said there's no way. We said there's no sensible way that we know of. If you know of such a way, attach a patch.
