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From: aryeh@eddie.mit.edu (Aryeh M. Weiss)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: I want indentation after a \section command
Message-ID: <1990Oct4.214033.4026@eddie.mit.edu>
Date: 4 Oct 90 21:40:33 GMT
Reply-To: aryeh@eddie.MIT.EDU (Aryeh M. Weiss)
Organization: MIT EE/CS Computer Facilities, Cambridge, MA
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In article <3961@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl> piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) writes:
>>>>>> In article <0093D99C.7E11FCA0@QMD.PHY.NIST.GOV>, msd@enh.nist.gov (M.
>You can't do it in a style option file, because the art1[012].sty files are
>read in AFTER the style options.
         ^^^^^
>-- 
>Piet* van Oostrum, Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University,

Whoa!  When I have a \documentstyle header like

\documentstyle[11pt,va,xref]{article}

The log file CLEARLY shows article.sty starting up, read in art11.sty
in ENTIRETY, article.sty finishing up, followed by va.sty and xref.sty:

This is TeX, Version 3.0 (preloaded format=lplain 90.8.8) 4 OCT 1990 13:05
**va 
(./va.tex
LaTeX Version 2.09 <7 Dec 1989>
(/usr/local/lib/tex/styles/article.sty
Document Style `article' <16 Mar 88>.
(/usr/local/lib/tex/styles/art11.sty)
...
)
(./va.sty
\sfigskip=\skip41
\sfigadjp=\skip42
) (./xref.sty) (./va.aux 

... etc
--